Amazon are having a sale this week, and I have to say I’m a little tempted. You can now get any of 9 Kindle apps for under a buck. I’m not sure I want to play most of these, but at this price I’m willing to experiment. The sale runs until 27 March. SCRABBLE EA [...]
Entries Tagged as 'games'
EA’s Kindle games to go on sale tomorrow
December 19th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
This was just posted on the official Amazon Kindle Twitter account: Discounted games: From 12/20/2010 through 01/02/2011, we’ll be offering all EA Kindle games at a 50% discount. EA Kindle Games EA Sudoku EA Solitaire EA Texas Hold’em SCRABBLE I’ve posted on these games before, so I won’t repeat myself. But it should cover all [...]
3 New Games for the Kindle
October 15th, 2010 · 1 Comment · kindle app
I’m about 5 hours late on this (darn it), so I’m sure you know about it already. Three games showed up in the Kindle Store today: Minesweeper, EA Solitaire, and Triple Town . Actually, Minesweeper was already on the Kindle as an Easter Egg, so I suppose this is just 2 new games.
More text based games for your Kindle, Nook, etc
October 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment · apps & games
A friend at MobileRead pointed me at another site that hosts text based games (thanks, Kristian). Parchment is a privately hosted web-based Z-machine interpreter by Atul Varma. It supports what looks like a couple hundred z-code based interactive fiction titles made available by The Interactive Fiction Archive. It doesn’t quite work on the Kindle, unfortunately. [...]
2 Free games for the Kindle
October 5th, 2010 · No Comments · apps & games, kindle app
I was looking at the free Kindle ebooks while working on a post and I noticed that there were 2 free games on the list. You’d better get them now (while they’re still free). Sudoku Word Morph On second thought, I’m not sure the word morph is worth getting. I’ve tried it and I’m really [...]
Baidu Offers E-Books, Games in Search of New Revenue
September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From Bloomberg: Baidu Inc., operator of China’s most used website, started an e-book service today and added 500 applications to its website to diversify beyond Internet search. Readers will be able to read and store purchased electronic books on the website, Chief Executive Officer Robin Li said at a conference in Beijing today. Baidu is [...]
Amazon now offer 2 free games for the Kindle
August 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · Amazon, apps & games, software news
Do you recall the Kindles “apps” I showed you a few weeks back? Well, Amazon just revealed a couple real ones. They’re free and apparently they only work on the K2, K3, and Kindle DX (all types). This might be a good time to upgrade from the original Kindle. Every Word Shuffled Row Update: This [...]
B&N to launch games on the Nook
April 16th, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, video
B&N CEO William Lynch was interviewed on Fox Business today. I think Fox is having technical issues. I can’t see the clip, so I’m going to have to send you to their site. If you can see the clip below then it must be working again. Watch the latest business video at video.foxbusiness.com There’s really [...]
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