For those of you who try to collect and use Amazon Coins, the company has a Double Coin Back promotion going on this week regarding a couple of games. Anyone who purchases 5,000 or 10,000 Amazon Coins on the Amazon Appstore will be able to do so at 20% off their regular price. This essentially allows players to buy more while spending less.
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Developer of Free-To-Play Game has Game Stolen by Another Developer and Republished to Amazon Underground
Gamers are used to developers crying foul when a game is pirated by users, but in an odd turn of events, independent developer, North Pole Command Centre Limited, was the victim of another developer rather than consumers. According to a forum post by a Reddit user with the screen name, “funkst2002,” Amazon denied their submission for their game, Pocket Wrestling. Having previously published the game to Google Play, the user was confused by the rejection, inspiring them to conduct an investigation of their own.
Violating Consumer Trust: How Apple, Electronic Arts, 2K Games and Capcom are Undermining Digital Distribution
The lack of consumer ownership of digital content has long been a precarious condition that gamers have had to accept if they wished to purchase and play their favorite software titles. Be it an unfavorable end-user license agreement (EULA) or digital rights management (DRM), corporate entities have endeavored to convey that consumers do not own digital content, but rather license the content for an indeterminate period of time, during which the rights holder can terminate said license with impunity. Don’t believe me? Here is a snippet of Rockstar Games’ lengthy EULA.
Just days after Google announced its latest iteration of the popular Chromecast streaming device, Amazon has made an announcement of its own; Amazon sellers are banned from selling any version of the device, or its peer, the Apple TV. The move demonstrates just how serious Amazon is about bolstering its own streaming service, but that hasn’t stopped Amazon from offering a friendly spin that seems unrelated to competition.
Lost Qubixle is a new puzzle game released on both Google Play and Amazon. Players will be tasked with reconstructing collapsed (cubr shaped) stars. Players will receive assistance from an often forgetful robot named Qubie, in their venture to complete the puzzles, of ehich there are over forty.
Almost a week ago exactly, Amazon’s rumored new 4K Fire TV went through FCC filing, letting us take an early look at the company’s next set-top box. Today Amazon has officially announced their new 4K Fire TV unit, with two different packages being available at the beginning of October. One of those packages is being called Fire TV Gaming Edition.
Yesterday Apple held their event where they announced a few new products like the iPad Pro tablet, which is big and expensive, as well as Apple TV. Well hot off the heels of Apple debuting their new TV platform, Amazon apparently has a 4K version of Amazon Fire TV that looks to be arriving any day now. Let the set-top box wars begins!
Ironhide Game Studio, the folks behind the very popular Kingdom Rush franchise, has announced that they have made the original Kingdom Rush game free. This isn’t a temporary price change either. The company will keep Kingdom Rush free forever from now on.
Android Game Sale Round-Up: Lightbot, Battlestation: Harbinger, QuestLord, Out There: Omega Edition, and more
It’s Friday and therefor it is time for another round-up of Android games on sale right now for this weekend. It is a holiday weekend and like most holiday weekends, there is a lot of games on sale already. There will probably be even more of the next 24-48hrs, so we will be trying to keep this list updated over the weekend.
Released by Newtronium, Skill shot is q simple arcade game that’s now available on Google Play and Amazon. The gameplay is dead simple: Players will be tapping the screen, causing the ball to shoot away from the point of the tap.