Astraware® is excited to announce the release of 2 new titles for the Palm® Pre™ and Pre Plus.

“It’s great to be launching these extra titles for the Pre,” said David Oakley, CTO of Astraware, “and the great feedback and interest we’ve had from the webOS community makes it exciting to be so connected with our userbase and their requests.”

Astraware Casino, already Astraware’s best-seller across a range of smartphone platforms, features 11 of the most popular casino games in 1 easy-to-use pack including Texas Hold ‘Em Poker, Craps, Roulette, Slots, and Blackjack. The game includes instructions on how to play each game and has a fun awards system – the Souvenir Suitcase – with awards unlockable in each of the games!

Police Range is a fun target practice range where players can put their skill and accuracy to the test as they train on 2 different types of police practice range – Crime Alley and Target Practice. Online high score leaderboards add to the challenge as players compete against their friends and other players worldwide.

Both games, built using Palm’s PDK, require the 1.4.5 webOS upgrade to be able to run. Astraware Casino and Police Range are available now, priced $2.99, from Palm’s App Catalog on device.

Wanna know what’s new with Astraware?  Astraware has been writing for WebOS and is now pleased to announce Astraware Sudoku and OddBlob. 

Both games are live on the Palm App Catalog now and for a limited time only are priced at $2.99 (regular price $4.99).

From the press release:

Astraware has a long and successful history of working closely with Palm. Zap!2000 was the first color game released for Palm OS and for several years Palm smartphones offered at least one Astraware game bundled along with it. Now that Palm has released their PDK development kit, which allows developers greater access to some of the core functions of webOS, Astraware is able to continue that relationship by bringing some of their best-selling games to the platform.

Astraware Sudoku is a multi-award-winning version of the worldwide smash puzzle game. It is packed with features that avid Sudoku players love, including the unique Puzzle of the Day feature, which sees in excess of 20,000 users regularly downloading the daily puzzles and uploading their times on the global leader board. First released for smartphones earlier this year, OddBlob is a cute puzzle-arcade game entirely created from modeling clay, and featuring online leader boards for players to post their high scores in both Strategy and Panic modes.

“We’re delighted to be re-establishing our long-term relationship with Palm, and supporting the new platform with a range of great casual games,” said Howard Tomlinson, CEO of Astraware. “Our experience at supporting well-featured devices in a range of sizes and resolutions has helped us to make our first webOS games a pleasure to play, and we look forward to bringing many more titles to the platform.”

Astraware intends to bring a number of their own-IP games to the webOS platform as well as working with their premium licensor partners to add to the range of quality casual games available in the Palm App Catalog.

“Palm has a rich history with Astraware, and we’re excited to see that relationship continue with the webOS platform,” said Ben Galbraith, director of Developer Marketing, Palm, Inc. “Astraware’s popular titles are a welcome addition to the breadth and quality of webOS games in the Palm App Catalog.”

Congrats Astraware on the new releases!  I still enjoy Astraware Sudoku on my Windows Mobile devices – now Palm users won’t be left out on a most excellent game.

"Brad Mitchum: Lost in Time" by Astraware

Astraware has been at it again, this time remembering the crowd of Windows Mobile users out there.  The release of “Brad Mitchum: Lost in Time” actually marks their third release for this platform in the past few months, which is very nice to see!

Here’s the full description as provided by Astraware:

Brad Mitchum is an archeologist who has travelled the four corners of the globe in the search of lost cities and legendary objects. He discovers a mysterious talisman and decides to investigate further. After more research he discovers that the gems are missing from the talisman. At that moment a white light appears and everything is turned upside down. Brad thought his adventures were over, he’s lost in time and he doesn’t see the funny side.

Brad Mitchum: Lost in Time is a fun action arcade game inspired by classic ball-shooting titles like Pang or Buster Bros which includes 3 high action game modes:

• Story: with cinematic sequences and progressive difficulty for an ever-increasing challenge;
• Pure: an arcade style mode with multiple weapon types;
• X-trem: a special extra-difficulty mode with combo systems for hardcore players.

Hot on the heels of Astraware releasing OddBlob for Windows Mobile, another previously only available on iPhone title has made it to the Microsoft operating system.  This time it is Police Range, a shooting game that looks to inspire future law enforcement and help everyone blow away a little pent up frustration at the same time.

Police Range, costing $4.99 to register, is available here.

Astraware, makers of some of the most successful, and not to mention fun games for mobile devices has recently released a version of their OddBlob game for Windows Mobile devices.  Previously only available for the iPhone, OddBlob is a game based on modeled clay inspired graphics.  It’s available for Windows Mobile devices with a touch screen, and standard QVGA and VGA resolutions meaning, it is not compatible with the square screened devices such as the Treo.

The price to register OddBlob is $4.99.  It is available here.