According to , Amazon is going to announce a 7-inch, bare-bones tablet for release this fall, but that's just to test the waters before putting out a full-featured Kindle tablet next year. With "touch controls, 3G connectivity, and a speaker" and running Google Android operating system, this might be yet another semi-portable system for playing the Android's quickly expanding suite of mobile games.

Adding another major player to the Android Market makes it look like the younger upstart could eventually overtake Apple as the go-to platform for developers who want to make mobile games. But, of course, we're still not ruling out Apple forcing its way into the game space with a either.