A real-time strategy (RTS) video game falls under the strategy genre, and refers to a type of game that does not move along incrementally, as in most turn-based video games. The term is credited to Brett Sperry, who coined the term RTS when marketing Dune II. One of many RTS games released this year, Anomaly : Warzone Earth launched on April 8 of this year, and was made by 11 Bit Studios of Warsaw, Poland exclusively for Apple’s iOS devices. However, in a display of caffeine-induced dedication, Bartosz Brzostek, the lead programmer for 11 Bit Studios, working nonstop for 14 days on only this project, and ported the popular RTS game over to the Kindle Fire.
A Kindle Fire owner now need simply to install the Amazon App Store and then pay $3.99 for Anomaly : Warzone Earth. The game has received critical acclaim as well as sales success, and provides a scenario where you pit your heavily armored forces against destructive towers run by an alien horde. Porting the iOS-dedicated Anomaly : Warzone Earth RTS video game to the customized version of Android operating system on the Amazon Kindle Fire will certainly lead to other game developers following suit with their iOS applications and games.
The Kindle Fire 7 inch color touch screen tablet is Amazon’s first attempt at a Tablet PC, and to say that it has been successfully received by the tablet buying public is an understatement at least. Amazon retails the Kindle Fire tablet for $199, a retail price approximately $150 to $300 lower than the previously most popular Tablet PCs. The Kindle Fire sold 95,000 units its first 24 hours of launch, and 255,000 units first five days of availability. Sales success has continued, and just recently, Amazon reported that they are selling 1 million Kindle tablet and eReading devices every week.
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The Kindle Fire is a groundbreaking device in more ways than just its retail price. Almost all of the best-selling and most popular tablets before the Amazon Kindle came along offered a 10 inch display, dual video cameras and some type of storage expansion capability. Like the best-selling Apple iPad 2, Amazon offers no storage expansion capabilities in the form of a microSD slot. But unlike the Apple iPad 2 and all of the other top selling tablets, the Kindle Fire has no camera. This has not diluted sales in the least, and the Kindle Fire is the most popular and best selling tablets currently, and in less than three months has done what no other tablet has been able to do, in becoming the only serious competitor to the Apple iPad 2. Amazon offers unlimited data storage through their Cloud Storage application for every Kindle Fire buyer.
