Play Games While Watching Your Favorite Shows With Sling Arcade!
Amazon Fire TV and Android TV users: You can now play popular games while watching your favorite Sling TV content. Here are all the details.
If you have a smartphone, a subscription to a streaming service, and two working thumbs, you’ve probably played games while watching a TV show. But unless you’re one of Sling TV’s product testers — what up, Carmen! – you’ve never experienced anything like Sling Arcade.
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Seamlessly merging streaming with gaming, Arcade allows users to play almost a dozen games – both classics and contemporary favorites – all while your favorite shows, movies, sports, and news on Sling plays in an adjacent window. Best of all, the current version is only the beginning: With your feedback and requests, we’ll continue to add more games to Arcade, along with more ways to play.
How to Use Arcade
At launch, Arcade is only available to those who use Amazon Fire TV and Android TV to access Sling. If you’re one of those lucky Slingers, you can access Arcade by logging into the Sling app, selecting the show, movie, or game you’d like to watch, then navigating to “Interactive Features” by pressing the “down” button. From there, you’ll see Sling Arcade, your portal to a universe where your favorite shows and a diverse mix of games share the same stage.
You can also access games in full-screen by navigating down to the “Arcade” playlist from the homepage of the app.
What Games Are Available on Arcade?
There are currently 10 titles available to users on Arcade:
- Wheel of Fortune: Spin the wheel, guess letters, and solve the puzzle! Based on the TV show.
- Tetris®: Stack geometric shapes in one of the most popular and addictive games of all time!
- Sweet Sugar: Match 3 and solve puzzles with quick thinking. Earn delicious rainbow cascades and candy combos.
- Solitaire Clash: A new twist on the classic card game. Enjoy multiple modes and tournaments set in exotic locations.
- Poker Online: Play Texas Holdem' Play against 2 to 9 opponents. Set up your own room or be paired against others.
- Neon Rider: Get ready for addictive flippin' action! Perform amazing stunts cruising through an epic landscape.
- Centipede: Blast the bugs before they get you in this classic Atari® game!
- Doodle Jump: Hop on a springy journey, avoid black holes and blast the baddies in one of the hottest games.
- Coin Town: Travel through history conquering empires and building everything from the Pyramids to the Pantheon.
- Pixel Dash: Brace yourself for thrilling platform action. Reach the finish without hitting the fatal obstacles!
- Haunted Castle: Explore a Haunted Castle, illuminate your path, evade enemies, and unearth hidden treasures in this spooky adventure!
- Asteroids: Enjoy the Classic Android Game that we all know and love! Carefully navigate your ships between the deadly asteroids headed your way and blow them to bits!
As mentioned above, our team of engineers and gamers are already at work adding more titles, so there will be plenty more to come. And if you have any suggestions on what we should add, use this form to submit your request, we’d love to hear from you!
Creating a Profile and Saving Your Progress
All of your progress will automatically be saved under the default profile name that pops up when you launch the game. This profile can be customized using the on-screen keyboard, and you can create multiple profiles, so everyone in your household can enjoy their own personalized gaming experience.
And that’s it! Arcade is not an opt-in experience, but if you’re not a gamer, there’s no obligation to start playing; you can still continue to enjoy the same great content on Sling like you always have. However, if you’re looking for an effortless integration of interactive gaming and live and on-demand streaming television, Sling lets you do that. Just make sure your thumbs are in good shape.
To try Arcade (now available on Amazon Fire TV and Android TV), use the link below to subscribe to Sling TV right now!
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