Joke app Happy Poo finds some success on Android platform
Urban dictionary defines turd polishing as “The act of trying to make something hopelessly weak and unattractive appear strong and appealing. An impossible process...
PlayStation one-ups Xbox with new Amazon Instant Video app
Online retail giant Amazon has launched a new streaming video app for Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console, the company announced today. As part of...
Amazon’s Android Appstore boasts 31K apps
Amazon is celebrating the first anniversary of its Android Appstore launch by putting a bunch of its most popular titles on sale. The company...
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 leaked, Activision implicated in blacklisting cover-up [update]
Along with the ESRB, online game retailers are notorious for revealing unannounced games long before their publishers would like them to be. Amazon France...
Surprises abound as Amazon reveals its 10 best-selling games of 2011
Amazon has released its top-selling digital and physical game titles from 2011. The online retailer has quickly become the quintessential center of great gaming deals, release-day shipping,...
2012 predictions: It’s doom & gloom for Amazon, RIM and Zynga
The predictions I made for 2011 turned out pretty well, since I framed things like any good fortune teller or horoscope would have done....
Zynga launches Words With Friends on the Nook e-book reader
Zynga launched its first game for the Barnes & Noble Nook e-book reader today, Words With Friends. The wildly popular Scrabble clone will debut...
Amazon App Store snags an Android exclusive with CrowdStar’s Top Girl mobile game
CrowdStar‘s Top Girl mobile game is one of the top-grossing titles on Apple’s iOS platform. Now it is moving over to Google’s Android platform...
Q&A: Amazon’s Appstore for Android is selling lots of games
Amazon wants to sell anything physical or digital. Almost four months ago, the company opened its Amazon Appstore for Android to provide some competition...
Is Amazon going to challenge Zynga in social games?
Amazon.com‘s recent hire of a veteran games designer suggests the massive retailer may be about to get into the business of publishing games itself....