Amazon Fire TV to rival Apple TV and Google Chromecast: Free games include Minecraft, Walking Dead, Monsters University

Amazon Fire TV

Amazon released its all new Amazon Fire TV box today. Much like the popular Apple TV, the Amazon Fire TV is a small box that plugs into your HDTV for easy access to Netflix, Amazon's Prime Instant Video, Hulu, WatchESPN, movie rentals and more.

The Amazon Fire TV is priced at $99 and comes with access to over 40,000 Prime Instant Videos, including 200,000 TV episodes and movies.

The Fire TV also comes with a voice search where users can just search through saying the name of an actor, movie title, genre and more.

The box packs a powerful quad-core processor with dedicated GPU, 2 GB memory, dual-band Wi-fi, HD 1080p video, Dolby Digital Plus and more.

The Fire TV also lets you play video games such as Minecraft, Walking Dead, Monsters University and Sev Zero for free. Over a hundred games are also available to purchase priced at an average of $1.85.

The Amazon Fire TV is currently available to purchase on Amazon.com.

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