Amazon joins the living room gaming brawl with its $99 Fire TV and a sci-fi shooter

Amazon wants to rule your living room, and video games are one way it plans to do that.

The online-retail giant announced its set-top box at an event this morning. It is the Fire TV, and — like the Kindle Fire tablets — this device runs on top of Google’s mobile operating system, which means it is capable of playing Android games. It is shipping today for only $99. Amazon already showed off titles like developer Mojang’s brick-building phenomenon Minecraft. It is also working with publishers like Sega, Electronic Arts, and Disney, and Amazon expects to have thousands of games available by May — including a sci-fi shooter from its new game studio. While the device comes with a TV-style remote, it will also have a gaming controller that sells separately for $40.