Farm Frenzy is next in line along the Amazon Free Paid App of the Day train! Normally $1.99 and with between 50,000 and 250,000 downloads on the Android Market, this game has been a hit among those who took the time to rate it. The game has kept a rating of 4.5/5 stars and can get pretty crazy at times.
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For those of you who have been waiting for the ad-free versions of Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons to be released, you’ll be happy to know they are now available through the Amazon App Store. You’ll want to get this if you’ve complained about the ads being in the way during play or lagging your gameplay/performance.
Gameloft, a developer who has spurned the Android Market due to piracy and malware issues has been reported recently stating that they are indeed going to give it a go on the newly minted Amazon Appstore. This is great news for anyone wanting a Gameloft game but not wanting to use the Gameloft store.
As you all know Amazon now has their own Android Appstore and in it they have the ability to offer paid apps and games for free on a daily basis, just like Apple’s App Store. Today, for us Android users that free game is Doodle Jump. Normally 99 cents, Doodle Jump has over 250,000 downloads in the regular Android Market and is rated at 4.5/5 stars.
[Update] Jet Set Games launches Highborn turn-based strategy game exclusively on the Amazon App Store
The crew over at Jet Set Games have launched a wicked looking turn-based strategy game called Highborn onto the Android platform. Now this is were you’ll have to get used to hearing this next line. It is available exclusively on the Amazon App Store. This is obviously going to be a trend if it wants to compete with the Android Market.
Well it is a trio of Amazon news in this post starting off with the fact that the Amazon App Store is now open for business! We knew it was going to happen and while the offerings on the App Store (3,800 apps/games at launch) are what you can get on the Android Market, Angry Birds Rio is exclusive only to the Amazon App Store.
A few days ago word got out that the landing page for the upcoming AppStore for Android by Amazon has gone live a little early. A source has told Wired that the actual launch will be March 22nd (tomorrow) and although the source has remained nameless (due to NDA’s from Amazon), they are considered a trusted source by Wired.
The Amazon AppStore seems to have gone partially live already with the landing page for Android already available for viewing. However, when you click on any specific app or game, it just takes you back to the Amazon website right now. The Amazon AppStore for Android landpage is pretty simple and clean in the layout.
Angry Birds Rio to be exclusively offered on Amazon’s Appstore. Ad-free Angry Birds and Seasons as well.
For all of you hoping to snag a copy of the ad-free version of Angry Birds and Angry Birds Seasons for Android, we have some good news and some bad news. Good news is, you’ll be able to buy those later this month. The bad news, it’ll be available exclusively on the Amazon AppStore. We are guessing this disappoints a lot of people.