Amazon jumps into game development, launches first game   Aug.
7, 2012 at 1:56 PM ET  Living Classics Amazon's new game studio
has launched its first Facebook game -- the free-to-play "Living
Classics."  Online retail giant Amazon is getting into the game
development business.  The company says it has launched Amazon
Game Studios. And apparently the developers at the studio have
already been hard at work —  they just launched their first
social game on Facebook. It's called "Living Classics."  Why is
Amazon jumping deep into the gaming fray?    And the studio is
growing. Amazon also announced it is hiring.   As for Amazon's
first game — "Living Classics" is a free-to-play title that
takes hidden-object gameplay and steps it up a notch. In this
game, a mother fox is looking for her family members who've been
lost in the pages of various story books (Alice in Wonderland,
The Wizard of Oz and such). As you move through the book pages,
you have to find and click the moving pieces of the pictures as
fast as you ca