Cut The Rope, Backbreaker Football and Samurai Vengeance coming to BlackBerry PlayBook
Unity, Marmalade, EA, and Polarbit keen on platform
When it comes to gaming, BlackBerry phones - with their keyboards, landscape screens and enterprise-heavy legacy - are not a natural environment.
At the BlackBerry Developers Conference in San Francisco, however, the company appears to be changing its tone, at least when it comes to its PlayBook tablet.
Games made up a sizeable part of the opening keynote, with middleware companies such as Unity and Marmalade highlighting how their support for the newly renamed BBX platform will enable developers to get their games released on the BlackBerry App World.
Games to goUnity has announced it will be bringing 30 games to PlayBook via its Union aggregation program in the next six months.
These include Kiloo's Frisbee Forever, Madfinger's Samurai Vengeance, as well as other titles such as Air Attack, Kona's Crate and Burn The City.
Marmalade says its technology has been used to make at least 20 titles for PlayBook, with more due for release soon.
These include high profile games such as NaturalMotion's Backbreaker Football and ZeptoLabs' Cut the Rope.
Swedish developer Polarbit is bringing 13 games to PlayBook, while EA - which has already released five games including Dead Space on PlayBook - has a couple more titles in development too - it's likely one of these is Scrabble.
