Amazon Game Studios and the games for Fire TV

With the recently released Amazon Fire TV and the development of Amazon Game Studios, some have been wondering what Amazon’s plans are for gaming and how they regard their product as a gaming device. While the dust is still settling regarding the details of Amazon’s plans for gaming, we are at least starting to get a picture in regards towards games on the Fire TV.

First, the games. As per Kotaku, these will be games currently launching with the Fire TV, with prices included.

Free Games

Despicable Me: Minion Rush — Gameloft
The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season (first episode free) — Telltale Games
Hungry Shark Evolution — Future Games of London
Asphalt 8: Airborne — Gameloft
Deer Hunter 2014 — Glu Mobile
Hill Climb Racing — Fingersoft
Riptide GP2 — Vector Unit
Bingo Blitz — Buffalo Studios
Reaper — Hexage
Stickman Downhill — Djinnworks
Big Win Slots — Mobile Deluxe
Into the Dead — PikPok
PBA Bowling Challenge — Concrete Software
Badland — Frogmind
Stickman Base Jumper — Djinnworks
Dead Trigger 2 — Madfinger Games
Zen Pinball HD — Zen Studios
Sonic CD — Sega
Dead on Arrival 2 — N3V Games
Voodoo Whisperer — Gogii Games
Dead System – Animoca
Clarc Lite — Hahn Film AG
Vendetta Online — Guild Software
Arc Squadron: Redux — Psyonix Studios
$.99 Games

Naught 2 — Blue Shadow Games
Grandpa and the Zombies — Tivola Publishing
Endless Skater — Supervillain Studios
Ski Safari — Defiant Development
Polar Bowler: 1st Frame — WildTangent
Gravity Guy — Miniclip
Buddy & Me — Sunbreak Games
Rabbids Big Bang — Ubisoft
Quell — Fallen Tree Games
Pocket Rally — Illusion Magic Studio
Gravestompers: Kid Zombies Save Eradication! — Mad Menace Entertainment
Motorbike — baKno Games
Quiet, Please! — Nostatic Software
Beyond Ynth HD — FDG
Grow — Epic Pixel
Puddle — Neko Entertainment
Recursion — Kick Back Games
A Ride into the Mountains — Chia-Yu Chen
Cannon Ballers — Steamburger Studios
League of Evil — Noodlecake Studios
Super Daddio 2 — Glenn Bacon
Super Mega Worm — Deceased Pixel
Quiet Christmas — Nostatic Software
$1.00 – $1.98 Games

Alpha Wave — Hardline Studios ($1.00)
Sci-Fighters — Headup Games ($1.29)
Experiment — Headup Games ($1.31)
Ascent of Kings — Nostatic Software ($1.49)
Kung Fu Fight! — Nostatic Software ($1.49)
Striker Soccer Euro 2012 Pro — U-PLAY Online ($1.87)
$1.99 Games

Quell Reflect — Fallen Tree Games
Radiant — Hexage
Mystery Case Files: Return to Ravenhurst — Big Fish Games
Fantastic 4 in a Row — EnsenaSoft
Vacation Vexation — Nostatic Software
Fist of Awesome – I Fight Bears
Atlantis Sky Patrol — Big Fish Games
Evac — Hexage
Mini Golf Mundo — Esenasoft
Mystery Castle HD Episode 1 — Runestone Games
Mystery Castle HD Episode 2 — Runestone Games
Mystery Castle HD Episode 3 — Runestone Games
Mystery Castle HD Episode 4 — Runestone Games
Mystery Castle HD Episode 5 — Runestone Games
$2.00 – $2.98 Games

Coaster Crazy Deluxe – Frontier Developments ($2.49)
Monster RPG 2 — Nooskewl ($2.91)
$2.99 Games

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 — Sega
Sonic the Hedgehog — Sega
Doom & Destiny — HeartBit Interactive
Rayman Fiesta Run — Ubisoft
Quell Memento — Fallen Tree Games
Prince of Persia: The Shadow and the Flame — Ubisoft
Double Dragon Trilogy — DotEmu
King Oddball — 10tons
Canabalt HD — Kittenface Software
Dark Incursion — Big Blue Bubble
Trouserheart — 10tons
$3.99 Games

Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode 1
$4.99 Games

The Game of Life — Electronic Arts
Terraria — 505 Games
Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II — Sega
Crazy Taxi — Sega
Air Fighters Pro — RORTOS
Clarc — Hahn Film
The Cave — Double Fine
Tetris — Tetris Online
Virtua Tennis Challenge — Sega
$6.99 Games

Sev Zero — Amazon Games Studio
Aftermath XHD — Jakyll
Minecraft – Pocket Edition — Mojang
Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour — Gameloft
$7.99 Games

NBA 2K14 — 2K Games

Along with that, indie game studio Jackbox Games announced that the games You Don’t Know Jack Party and Fibbage will appear as launch titles for the Fire TV console. Telltale Games also revealed that, along with The Walking Dead: Season One, they would be bringing The Walking Dead: Season Two, The Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones to the Fire TV in the future.

As for the Amazon Game Studios, they have been rather busy as of late. In addition to the buying out of Killer Instinct developer Double Helix and the hiring of Eric Nylund, director of narrative design at Microsoft Studios, Amazon Game Studios also hired Portal designer Kim Swift and Far Cry 2 creative director, Clint Hocking. In addition to Far Cry 2, Clint Hocking has worked on Splinter Cell and Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory. As for Kim Swift, her most recent work was creative director at Airtight Games on Quantum Conundrum and Soul Fjord. 

As an example of Amazon Game Studios in action, they have recently developed Sev Zero “from the ground up” for the Fire TV. Sev Zero is a hybrid tower defense/third-person shooter that utilizes both a Kindle tablet and a traditional controller. The game is priced at $6.99. In addition, the game comes bundled with the $39.99 Amazon controller along with 1000 Amazon coins, which are worth $10.00.

Along with Sev Zero, Amazon Game Studios recently released a sneak peak into what we can expect next from the studio for the Fire TV.