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"The Kindle is no longer an e-books-only device; developers have just released two Kindle-ready games, thanks to the Kindle Development Kit (KDK).\nThe KDK was launched earlier this year. At that time, we predicted more non-book apps, from productivity tools to games, would be available for Kindle users.\nOf course, with Kindle's paper-like interface, we weren't expecting first-person shooters or elaborate fantasy games. The kinds of entertainment apps that have been developed and released so far are what we'd expect would go over well with Kindle's book-loving users: word puzzles.\nBoth the games are rather similar and bear a resemblance to free smartphone applications. Still, we're fairly certain these two initial offerings represent the more shallow end of the app pool; we predict clever crossword puzzles, two-player games, less literary offerings such as puzzle or math games, and more will be coming relatively soon.\nEvery Word is a word scramble game. The users is shown six or seven scrambled letters and is asked to form as many words as possible using those letters. The more words that are found, the higher the score.\n\n\n\n\nThe second game is Shuffled Row, another word scramble game that sounds more like Scrabble. \"See how many words you can make from 60 lettered tiles. The tiles are added to your row one at a time so you'll constantly be working with a new set of letters. After you submit a word, the letters you used will be removed and new ones will be added,\" reads the product description.\n\n\n\n\nBoth games are free. If and when paid games are introduced to the device, developers will receive a 70% cut of revenues.\nThe KDK isn't open yet to all developers; rather, Amazon is working with select devs on a limited basis. \nKindle's competition from Barnes &amp; Noble, Nook, has had game access for a few months. And rival Copia is launching another competing product which beats Kindle both on price ($99 versus Kindle's $139 starting-at cost) and on gaming potential because of its color screen.\nWhat do you think of these two games so far? If you're a Kindle owner, do they enhance your overall experience with the device?\n[hat tip: zdnet]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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