Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire Tablet Benchmarks
This page attempts to maintain an always up to date set of benchmarks of the Fire TV and Fire Tablet products. Benchmarks include Geekbench, GFXBench, and 3DMark.
Switch Pro Controller
With the Nintendo Switch’s move towards open standards, the Switch Pro Controller (mostly) works with the Fire TV platform.
Wii U Pro Controller
Mayflash provides a plug & play solution to using a Wii U Pro controller with your Fire TV (and PC).
Essential Kids’ Games for Your Fire TV and Fire Tablet
It can sometimes be hard to find the best content in Amazon’s App Store. I have a 10 year old and have watched him and his friends play games for years. Here are a few games that you should own.
Essential RPGs for Your Fire TV and Fire Tablet
Do you like RPGs? These are some RPG games from several sub-genres that you really should consider owning for your Fire TV or Fire tablet.
Stranger Things: The Game
Somehow one of the coolest new Fire games I’ve played in a while is a retro (think SNES) game created as a promotion for a Netflix TV series. Seriously.
Amazon’s Fire Device Portfolio In One Place
I’ve created a spreadsheet of the Amazon Fire devices, specs, etc. The spreadsheet started as a merge of the various Wikipedia tables, but I merged them all together and made them align so you can see the whole Fire device portfolio in one place.
RetroArch 1.6.4 Released
The latest version is always linked on the main RetroArch Fire TV page. You can read the announcement here. There has been are a lot of development in RetroArch this year. The last update I mentioned was 1.5.0, and 1.6.4 is a bugfix version for 1.6.0, which was released in June. The most important thing of … Continue reading RetroArch 1.6.4 Released
RetroArch 1.5.0 Released
The latest version is always linked on the main RetroArch Fire TV page. The 1.4.1 “open beta” improvements and a lot more are rolled into a new release. You can read the announcement here, but a summary of relevant updates since 1.4.1: MOBILE: Single-tap for menu entry selection MOBILE: Long-tap a setting to reset to … Continue reading RetroArch 1.5.0 Released
Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee
Marked down from $3 to $1, Oddworld: Munch’s Oddysee is a 3D puzzle platformer and Xbox port that plays well on the Fire TV platform.