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Read More »Amazon posts $544m Q3 operating loss as Fire Phone bombs
Online retail leader Amazon has posted an operating loss of over half a billion dollars for Q3 2013. The total of $544m is over 20 times more than the loss posted in the same period last year. Net losses reached $437m – up ten times year-on-year. Revenues, however, grew 20 …
Read More »Amazon’s Fire TV arrives in UK
Amazon has released its Fire TV microconsole in the UK. The set-top box costs 79, though the game controller must be purchased separately for 34.99. Games available for the Fire TV include Minecraft, Asphalt 8, The Walking Dead and Amazon Game Studios-developed shooter Sev Zero. Various apps including Netflix, Prime …
Read More »Amazon Fire TV now available in UK
Set-top box with game controller costs £113.99
Read More »Frontier, WayForward and Happy Tuesday team up with Amazon Game Studios
Amazon co-developing Fire exclusives with veteran studios
Read More »Google says Amazon, and not Microsoft, is its biggest rival
Google chairman Eric Schmidt believes that Amazon is its biggest search competitor. In a speech in Berlin, Schmidt pointed out that internet users are likely to go directly to the retailer when shopping, stating: Many people think our main competition is Bing or Yahoo. But, really, our biggest search competitor …
Read More »Amazon shoppers vote PS2 the greatest console ever
Sony’s PS2 has been voted as the greatest ever games console by Amazon customers. The machine beat its predecessor the PSOne in the final, with both the Super Nintendo and N64 falling in the semi-finals. The quarter finals saw defeat for the PS3, Mega Drive, Xbox 360 and PS4 while …
Read More »Develop Live: Unity vs HTML5
Amazon's Jesse Freeman on pros and cons of the two platforms for the game development process
Read More »Marmalade’s treasures of the Amazon
Marmalade and Amazon team up to encourage more devs to release games on the latter's growing app store
Read More »Amazon announces new Fire tablet and Kindle range
Leading retailer and growing platform holder Amazon has announced a complete refresh of its Fire tablet and Kindle ereader range. Leading the charge is its iPad Air rivalling Fire HDX 8.9 tablet, which offers a super hi-def 2560×1600 pixel display – that’s 1m more pixels on screen than can be …
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