Amazon comes to Mobile World Congress looking for more gaming love from developers

BARCELONA, Spain — Amazon’s Fire Phone may have failed to catch, well, you know. But that hasn’t dimmed the e-commerce giant’s mobile ambitions, particularly when it comes to gaming.

Just how dramatically Amazon’s interest in gaming has grown over the past year has been on display this week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where the company has substantially increased its presence from the show in 2014. The timing seems good, considering MWC itself decided to make gaming a bigger focus this year, probably a wise — if somewhat strangely belated — recognition of the importance of mobile games in the apps market.

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