No Lines, No Waiting, No Fuss: Customers to Receive Select Games,
Including "Star Wars: the Force Unleashed" and "Gears of War 2," on
the First Day of Availability
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 25, 2008--Gamers have been asking
for it and Amazon has answered the call. Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
today announced that it will offer release-date delivery for "Tiger
Woods PGA Tour 09," "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed," "Fable 2" and
"Gears of War 2." For $5.98, Amazon customers can upgrade their
shipping option for guaranteed delivery of these titles on the first
day of availability to all addresses within the continental United
States. Additionally, Amazon Prime customers will receive release-date
delivery for free.
"We are excited to delight Amazon customers by offering guaranteed
release-date delivery of these new video game titles so that the games
can arrive at their doors the first day they're available," said Greg
Hart, vice president of video games and software at Amazon.com. "This
means that thousands of gamers across the country can start playing
the games they love on the day they're released without having to
stand in long lines or stay up all night to do it."
"Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09" will be released on Aug. 26, 2008. "Star
Wars: The Force Unleashed" will be released on Sept. 16, 2008. "Fable
2" will be released on Oct. 21, 2008. "Gears of War 2" will be
released on Nov. 7, 2008. To browse Amazon's entire selection of video
games, visit www.amazon.com/videogames.
About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in
Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers
Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most
customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover
anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its
customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers
offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories
such as books, movies, music & games, digital downloads, electronics &
computers, home & garden, toys, kids & baby, grocery, apparel, shoes &
jewelry, health & beauty, sports & outdoors, and tools, auto &
industrial.
Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with
access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own
back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable
virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by
Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2),
Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon
Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service
(Amazon FPS), and Amazon Mechanical Turk.
Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including
www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp,
www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and the Joyo Amazon websites at
www.joyo.cn and www.amazon.cn.
As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms
include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context
indicates otherwise.
Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the
meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ
significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking
statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others,
risks related to competition, management of growth, new products,
services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating
results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and
claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial
agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange
rates, system interruption, significant amount of indebtedness,
inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud.
More information about factors that potentially could affect
Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings
with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Annual
Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007, and
subsequent filings.
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