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Amazon adds support for tablet games to Fire TV

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It seems the new TV box from Google, known as the Nexus Player, alongside Android TV, do carry one particular major drawback – neither of them happen to provide official support for many of the games that are out there in the market, not to mention selected apps. Amazon, which is Google’s rival in this aspect, has been selling the Fire TV for some months now, and have made available a reasonable number of apps and games for the platform. This time round, the latest Fire TV software update will offer support for gaming titles that were specially developed for tablets, now how about that?

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The biggest problem with Google’s new TV box is that the Nexus Player and Android TV don’t officially support very many apps and games yet. That could change as more developers add support for Android TV, but on day one there are only a few dozen Android TV apps available from the Play Store. Rival Amazon, on the other hand, has been selling the Fire TV for a few months and there’s a fairly large selection of apps and games for the platform. Now Amazon is adding support for even more games: the latest Fire TV software update brings support for games that were designed for tablets… whether their developers have optimized them to run on the Fire TV or not. Here’s how it works: Once your device is running software version 51.1.4.0_user_514006420 you’ll be able to download and install tablet apps from the Amazon Appstore.

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