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Amazon Kindle To Get Apps and EA Games

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the in-glorious-greyscale dept.

Lanxon writes "Amazon currently encourages publishers and authors to sell their books and magazines digitally, but the upcoming Kindle Development Kit (KDK), which goes into beta next month, says Wired, will allow software developers to create a variety of different applications. Amazon has already confirmed a Zagat guide for restaurant reviews from Hallmark and a selection of word games and puzzles, such as Sudoku, from Sonic Boom. EA Mobile is also set to release games on the Kindle."The kit itself is expected to be available next month.

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  1. Convergence by djdavetrouble · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can we get on with it already? I have a drawer full of devices.....

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    1. Re:Convergence by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 4, Funny

      Wait, it gets better! Next iteration of Kindle will have extra circuitry, a microphone and speaker so you can... MAKE PHONE CALLS!!!

      Oh to be alive in such an age of wonders..

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  2. games? by rhainman · · Score: 4, Funny

    With the refresh rate of the Kindle, and FPS will involve you shooting at the place where the bad guy was 5 seconds before.

    1. Re:games? by aicrules · · Score: 5, Funny

      Kindle's version will be a turn-based FPS.

  3. EA games on the Kindle? by alen · · Score: 2, Funny

    Madden 2011 in black and white? is it 3d accelerated like on the iphone?

  4. Ob Colossal Cave by djdavetrouble · · Score: 2, Funny

    You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike.

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    music lover since 1969