Amazon buys Killer Instinct developer Double Helix Games

Amazon own the original makers of the new version but Microsoft owns the IP and has Iron Galaxy working on it now.

Nope. Microsoft owns the IP.

Killer Instinct Should be Released on PlayStation 4 !

Sell it Complete for $59.99 !

Now is it a possability for PS4 ?!

Yaay! Triple A titles on my Kindle!

KI is owned by Microsoft, not Double Helix/Amazon.

Interesting for sure, but I don't think Amazon knows what they are getting themselves into. Amazon already has trouble achieving profitability consistently and now they want to enter another business that they know little about. This has disaster written all over it.

Hope Bezo force them developers to port Killer Instinct to the PS4

Me thinks Amazon is building a cloud gaming console.

Mwahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa. The guys at Amazon are probably rubbing their hands together, looking at Microsoft and thinking: 'We're comming for you too, eventually...'

Maybe they should focus more on their crappy app store rather than buying up developers.

Developers need money.. if moneysoft wont shell out the money for a fully finished game.. go somewhere else and have a fully finished strider game

I like how aggressive the online Bookstore has been. If amazon would have been happy selling books they would have went under like the other bookstores. but Amazon has always wanted more. I hope this is more than a Kindle gimmick.

Poor Double Helix, first they are force to make shitty shovelware and now that they are finally making games, they get bought by amazon and probably be force to do mobile games.

I hope they don't alter anything about Killer Instinct, I love this fighting game series and I don't want it to be tainted.

Odd move. Very, very odd. Amazon's really trying to get a finger into every available pie.

And that usually ends well.....

Lol yes amazon should keep trying to do more and more, and eventually sucking at everything. They are doing this because for all the merchandise they sell, they don't make any money.

im curious about this buy they should focus more on arcade games for all platforms

I'll be sticking to my superior Nintendo Wii U and games

More PC ports maybe since they're fairly successful with digital sales?

Pretty sure you don't buy out a subpar dev and expect them to innovate. Sure they made Earthworm Jim and MDK before the merger, but their latest games are nothing but terrible movie games.

Am surprised MS never bought them.

If you look at Amazon's financials, they are a very distressed company. Their focus is revenue growth to the exclusion of everything else, and their core competency, online retail, is barely profitable. I wouldn't be surprised if they went bankrupt in the next five years.

WTH! Amazon too?

if the Kindle is any indication on how cheap and terrible their devices are, then this too will suck. Then need to stick with what they know, and they know nothing about running a software company.

The Amazon Junglebox will be out by Christmas