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Microsoft’s Xbox SmartGlass app is now available on Kindle Fire, meaning you can message your friends, explore bonus content, and control your console with Amazon’s proprietary tablet. Smartglass is also available on Android, iOS and Windows Phone meaning nobody has any excuses, ever, to avoid Microsoft’s multi-device schemes. Load up the Amazon app store to grab the free release.

Thanks, IGN.

Head on over to the Amazon App Store to pick up Minecraft Pocket Edition for Kindle Fire for $7. The sandbox offering has been available on iOS and many Android devices for quite a while now, but took its time making an official debut on Amazon’s tablet.

Thanks, Joystiq.

Skylanders Cloud Patrol will be made available on Kindle Fire, and playable on Kindle Fire HD which was announced yesterday for a November release.

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Kindle Fire HD has been announced by Amazon.

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Amazon has announced GameCircle for Kindle Fire, which will allow developers to add leaderboards, cloud saves, and achievements to games. Players will be able to track trophies, treasures, badges, awards, and more as well as receive in-game messages earned in real-time or pause and view an achievements summary. The leaderboards will include comparison information and percentile ranking against top players or competitors, and Sync will allow players to save their game to the cloud so they can switch devices if need be. The system is currently in beta, and the firm has released a video for developers which is posted below. Thanks, GameTrailers.

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A new report shows 19% of US adults now own tablet computers.

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Market research firm eDataSourcehas estimated that Amazon sold around 2 million units of its Kindle Fire tablet since launch. According to the firm’s CEO Carter Nicholas, 850,000 have been sold through Amazon with the rest moving through various channel sales, such as Best Buy which reported a 63% sales increase for the tablet during October and November. In a recent press release, Amazon Kindle VP Dave Limp stated that the firm sold “millions” of the new Kindle family and Kindle Fire before the holiday shopping weekend started. A projection from research firm iSuppli (via CNET) suggests Amazon will ship 3.9 million units of Kindle Fire during the last three months of 2011, which would give the firm a 13.8% share of global tablet shipments in Q4, exceeding Samsung’s 4.8% share and coming in second to Apple’s 65.6% share. Thanks, MCV.

Amazon has announced Facebook, Netflix, Pandora, Twitter, are coming to Amazon’s AppStore, along with EA, Gameloft, PopCap, and Zynga all for the launch of Kindle Fire. Rovio is as well although that was pretty much a given, due to the Angry Birds logo which popped up on screen during the device’s unveiling. The first generation of Kindle Fire won’t have access to Google’s Android Marketplace, this news should be a bit of a reielf to early adopters. Games already announced for the tablet include: Airport Mania, Battleheart, Cut the Rope, Doodle Fit, Doodle Jump, Fruit Ninja, and Jenga. Thanks, IndustryGamers.