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BlackBerry to get 3D games and in-app payments

RIM announces support for OpenGL ES and new services

BlackBerry to get 3D games and in-app payments
By Stuart Dredge
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BlackBerry gaming just got a whole lot more interesting, thanks to a series of announcements by Research In Motion at its BlackBerry Developer Conference.

The big news: support for OpenGL ES - the same tech that enables all those console-tastic 3D games on iPhone. The first BlackBerry to support it is the new Storm 2.

EA Mobile took the stage at the conference this morning to show a demo of its Need For Speed: Shift running on the Storm 2, which looked suitably whizzy, using the device's accelerometer for controls.

Also big for games developers is RIM's launch of in-app payments. Although they won't launch until next year, they'll allow games firms to do the same kind of extra content purchases and/or subscriptions that they're starting to do on iPhone - think ngmoco's Eliminate Pro or Com2uS's HomeRun Battle 3D.

Stuart Dredge
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Stuart is a freelance journalist and blogger who's been getting paid to write stuff since 1998. In that time, he's focused on topics ranging from Sega's Dreamcast console to robots. That's what you call versatility. (Or a short attention span.)