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Amazon extends GameCircle achievements and game cloud saves to iOS

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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♀Amazon is announcing a number of improvements to its Android game ecosystem that will benefit both players and game developers. It means that players won’t lose their data when switching between devices.

The effort is part of a wider plan to become the go-to service for mobile gamers. Specifically, Amazon is now extending its GameCircle achievements and leaderboards to iOS. It is also bringing its cloud save and analytics technology, Whispersync for Games, to Apple’s game platform.

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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.