Amazon quietly launches casual game downloads

Suddenly, unannounced, Amazon has enabled a casual games download service in the States. It's got more than 600 available, each costs less than $10, and there's a try-before-you-buy service available to, where you can play a game for 30 minutes before you buy it.

No sign of anything more hardcore, this is so far just limited to Bejewelled and the like, but if this is a sign of things to come then it could be the shot in the arm that PC gaming needs. Especially if recent figures suggesting that half of PC game purchases are digital is true.

Amazon Games Downloads (via Kotaku)

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