GameLoft To Use Amazon Appstore to Distribute Games
GameLoft has announced plans to use Amazon’s newly-launched Appstore to distribute their titles for Android phones and tablets. If you’re wondering why they are so quick to jump on Amazon’s offering and not the one that Google provides, it’s because of piracy. They state they want their users to be comfortable downloading their games – something that’s not possible in the Android market due to the ability for anyone to hack applications and reupload them with malware inside.
He has a fair point considering all that’s gone on in the past month with several different malware scares. The move by GameLoft is still interesting, though, as they also use DRM as a reason why they prefer to sell most of their titles through their own online storefront. Users have shied away from buying from the publisher due to this very reason.
With Amazon, that could potentially go out of the window. It’s worthy to note that GameLoft does offer several titles on the Android market, but the selection there pales in comparison to what they have available through their own channels. It remains to be seen if they’ll be doing the same with Amazon. [Droid Gamers via Reuters]
PS: In related news, here is a video of ten new games GameLoft will be making for the Xperia Play. We’re assuming these will just sit nicely in Sony’s Playstation Store. [via EuroDroid]