Amazon Kindle To Get Apps and EA Games

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday January 21, 2010 @02:20AM 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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Wait, what? by Drethon · 2010-01-21 02:28 · Score: 5, Interesting

Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the kindle (and E Ink in general) most efficient as displaying the same thing? Why would I want something with a frame rate killing my kindle battery?

Just my bent $0.02
Interesting timing by nscheffey · 2010-01-21 02:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

Wonder if it has anything to do with this?
Re:games? by aicrules · 2010-01-21 03:11 · Score: 5, Funny

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