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Palm will be strutting their stuff at the Game Developer’s Conference next week and their presentation will focus on their Plug-in Development Kit (PDK) – a set of tools designed to help developers create graphics-intensive games for Palm’s webOS.

The PDK is said to let developers rewrite mobile apps designed for other platforms in double quick-time, with iPhone apps reputedly ported over in “a matter of days,” with no degradation in performance.

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The Palm webOS has been given another boost in its gaming abilities, with the release of VisualBoyAdvance – a free, webOS-based emulator for Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance games.

VisualBoyAdvance (VBA) is an open source emulator available for numerous operating systems, and it’s now been successfully ported and enhanced for webOS.

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Palm’s webOS is slowly establishing itself as a mobile gaming platform to rival the best of them, and developers Gameloft have just released videos showcasing their latest offerings for the Palm Pre.

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The Android operating system may seem to be totally overshadowed by the iPhone when it comes to gaming, but there’s perhaps more high quality games available than you think.

To show off the platform’s abilities as a top notch gaming platform, AndroidHD has put together a ten minute video showcasing no less than fifty games – click on for the video and full listing:

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In an another reminder that the iPhone is fast becoming the mobile gaming platform of the future, Rockstar publishers have released the first Grand Auto Theft title for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

Offering top down gaming, the graphics are pretty damn good, serving up a near-direct port of the Nintendo DS version, but with much better graphics.

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The least thing a hard-fragging gamer wants to look at is a page full of boring ol’ words, so thankfully the folks at OnlineEducation have employed a neat graphic to lay down Da Facts about consoles.

The illustrated page throws down a load of facts, including the average time spent by gamers per week on their craft, the biggest selling consoles, and the top selling video games of all time.

Interested? Click on for the graphic.

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The Palm Pre is likely to look a whole load more tempting to consumers from today with the introduction of a slew of top notch, class leading games to the webOS platform.

No less than seven popular 3D games are charging headlong into the Palm App Catalog, and they’re all worthy downloads:

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With its  latest firmware update to webOS 1.3.5, Palm included a software library called SDL (or Simple Directmedia Layer) which grants low level hardware access to developers – which is perfect for accelerated 3D graphics.

Super-spoddy webOS hacker zsoc was quick to see the potential, and swiftly put  together a working port of the legendary shoot em up Doom, which runs within a card in Palm’s multi-tasking webOS.

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Long term Nintendo fans will know the sometimes weird and wonderful shapes that the controllers have taken over the years, starting from a clunky’n'chunky rectangular number in 1985.

Skip forward to 1996, and the thing had become a spaceship-shaped oddity, before settling down to the fantastically simple Wii controller we all know and love.

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It’s been a firm favourite in the Wirefresh offices for years, and we’ve spent untold hours waving our Wii controllers around in the air, so it comes as no surprise to find that Nintendo’s Wii gaming console is now the fastest selling console in UK history.

Independent performance and sales tracking bods, Chart Track-GfK, have rummaged through the figures and discovered that the Wii has now sold more than six million units in the UK since launching on 8 December 2006.

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The BBC has teamed up with gaming giants Nintendo to launch a new and improved version of the iPlayer catch-up service for the Nintendo Wii gaming console.

Following the launch of the iPlayer for the Playstation network in September, the new version improves on the frankly rubbish original which we found so clunky that we quickly abandoned it.

The new iPlayer channel will be available to download from November 18, and the BBC are hoping that it will prove a hit among the one million Wii users in the UK.

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Wii Fit Plus, the follow up to the massively popular Nintendo Wii Fit exercise game, should be stacking up on shop shelves today in plenty of  time for the Christmas rush.

In addition to all the original Wii Fit features, the updated  (ahem)  “exertainment” game offers no less than fifteen new balance-board exercises, plus six new strength and yoga programmes to coax lardy sofa surfers into some sort of shape.

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Looking meaner than Clint Eastwood after someone’s run over his pet moggy, Lenovo’s new gaming-oriented IdeaCentre B500 serves up heaps of power in a rugged all-in-one package.

Sporting more angles than  a protractor factory after an explosion, the matt black and moody IdeaCentre B500 packs a 23-inch, 1,920×1080 display, 802.11n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, JBL-brand integrated speakers and a motion-control remote.

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If the  all-white Wii  wasn’t doing it for you, then be prepared to welcome the meaner, all-black Nintendo Wii bundle into your lives.

The none-more-black gaming console is currently available on pre-order on Amazon UK, with the online retailer lobbing quite a few quid off the asking price.

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File under: “Gordon Bennett, who’s woulda thought it!” Analysts DFC Intelligence have declared that the iPhone and iPod touch will prove to be key players in the mobile gaming market.

Although you may think that this was fairly obvious to anyone who hasn’t been sleeping under a tree for the last two years, DFC have compiled a nice shiny report to remind us all.

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