Ethan Evans, the vice president of the Amazon Appstore.
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Amazon Appstore exec paints one vision of gaming's future: wearables, cars, and, of course, Fire devices

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon’s interest in video games is growing, as we can see from a talk from a company executive at the Casual Connect game conference today.

The whole universe of games is expanding on multiple dimensions thanks to factors like the growing ubiquity of mobile operating systems. Some of the predictions aren’t new, but it is interesting that they’re coming from someone at Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer and a new entrant in games — an industry that makes billions of dollars each year.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.