GameStop may think which people still like boxes, but that’s not interlude a company from diving into a digital distribution realm. It paid for up Flash game purveyor Kongregate final summer as well as right away which anty merger only forsaken a big egg on Android with the launch of Kongregate Arcade. It’s fundamentally the apart mobile app store from a Android Market, but with the couple of critical differences. Biggest is that these games, numbering over 300, are all free and have been all Flash-based. This is pronounced to “solve a diversion discovery problem” by popping out of the Market though positively won’t do most to compromise revenue problems for devs operative upon reward mobile games. Of course to get all the games you’ll still need to find this app, though it’s there. Right now. We checked.

Show full PR textKONGREGATE LAUNCHES KONGREGATE ARCADE, WORLD’S LARGEST COLLECTION OF GRATIS MOBILE FLASH GAMES
New Android App Now Offers Social Gaming Site’s Most Popular Games

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (January 18, 2011) – Kongregate (www.kongregate.com), a single of the leading free browser formed diversion sites with some-more than 13 million monthly singular visitors, currently launched Kongregate Arcade, the world’s largest pickup of free mobile games for Android regulating Adobe® Flash® Player. Kongregate Arcade blends a flourishing library of more than 300 games with player achievements, profiles and a strong navigation layer to emanate a many finish gaming knowledge upon Android.
The introduction of Kongregate Arcade signals another vital step by Kongregate to allow gamers to entrance as well as play hundreds of games anytime, anywhere from their desktop or upon their mobile device, as well as gives game developers nonetheless an additional viable height to pattern as well as showcase their games. Kongregate Arcade will additionally be promoted in primogenitor association GameStop’s, (NYSE: GME), 4,600 stores in a US.
Games have been increasingly winning America’s growing ardour for mobile Apps. Given which Android OS is a fastest growing smartphone handling scheme, making a move into the Android Marketplace is the subsequent judicious step for a fast growing Kongregate.
“In creating a Kongregate Arcade, we longed for to compromise the game find complaint that all Android owners have common,” pronounced Jim Greer, CEO of Kongregate. “It was critical to reinforce the mission to yield gamers with good free games anytime, anywhere, and to broaden a reach of a Kongregate community opposite multiple platforms. The arrival of Kongregate Arcade is the undiluted subsequent step in which strategy.”
Initially rising with some-more than 300 gratis Flash formed games – one of the largest libraries of mobile games in the industry – new titles will be combined to a App weekly with preference formed upon harmony with the mobile height as well as the capability to play upon the touch screen device. In further, Kongregate is actively seeking to identify opportunities to work with the village of more than 8,500 developers to create new Flash based diversion calm exclusively for the Kongregate Arcade library that should further jumpstart Android as the viable gaming platform.

Top Kongregate Arcade Features Include:
· World’s largest collection of gratis mobile Flash games

· One app implement includes 300+ games, with some-more combined each week

· Best game-discovery tools upon Android

· Available on any device running Android 2.2 (Froyo) or aloft, with Flash 10.1

· Fully integrated with Kongregate web accounts

· Gamers can share and examination diversion ratings, achievements and comments with village

· Ability to collect exclusive, mobile-only badges on top titles

· Select games can also be downloaded for offline play

With a launch of Kongregate Arcade, a association — voted a single of TIME Magazine’s “50 Best Websites 2010″ — brings a little of its most renowned gratis Flash formed games to the Android Marketplace, with tip titles together with mobile versions of Vector Runner, Assembler, Perfect Balance 2, Barry Lost His Marbles, Billy’s Hill, Gem Grab, Pel Plus as well as G-Switch. Games featured upon Kongregate Arcade camber all of a top categories now on Kongregate.com, together with movement, adventure, RPG, MMO, plan, invulnerability, as well as puzzle games, with all featured calm rated PG-13.

About Kongregate
Kongregate is the heading browser-based diversion site with over 13 million monthly unique visitors who outlay some-more than 23 million hours personification per month. As part of a GameStop Corporation network, a site facilities the unique community and amicable height together with achievements, profiles, chat, messaging, forums, and levels, which unifies over 35,000 games into the cohesive and addicting experience. Kongregate shares revenue from advertising and practical products without delay with over 8,500 developers who have uploaded games to a site. Advertisers include brands like Electronic Arts, Sony Pictures, Sprint, Frito Lay, Axe, Xbox 360, Nokia, as well as Toyota. While all games on Kongregate have been gratis, a site also features the virtual curr