One rumor true, lets start another!

If I remember correctly, a while back there was speculation that Amazon.com might open a gaming platform to compliment their other services. Now it seems these rumors were correct. Joystiq and Shacknews report that Amazon has opened a game store with prices ranging from $6.99 to $9.99.

I’ve wanted someone to open a Steam-esque Linux game store for a while. While their downloader software “currently supports Windows only“, we may remember that their MP3 downloader utility is available for many of the popular Linux distributions. Time for crossed fingers?

Maybe. From what I gather, this service is the result of Amazon’s purchase of Reflexive. While I’m not giving up hope yet, it does seem that Reflexive’s previous efforts involved (predictably) only Windows and Mac OSX.

Still, we can dream can’t we?

Then again, perhaps a service like this already exists?