内容摘要：Amazon unveiled new gadget and game-friendly devices called Echo Buttons today at a special media ev

Amazon unveiled new gadget and game-friendly devices called Echo Buttons today at a special media event. Together with a new Alexa Gadget API, they turn your Echo into a gaming hub.

Each button is roughly the size of an Amazon Echo Dot and have built in lights that can change colors. The devices themselves are actually giant buttons -- yes like the Staples button -- that you connect to your Echo and third-party companies can tap into via the API to create games.

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Hasbro, for example, is working on a version of Trivial Pursuit. The buttons will be cheap enough and easy enough to use that people will surely buy multiples.

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Amazon hopes it helps bring back the family gaming night thing. The company plans to launch a number of Button-compatible skills this holiday season including games like Buzzer Beater Basketball Trivia with Karl-Anthony Towns, Fourth Down Football Trviai with Philip Rivers, and Beat the Intro from Musicplode.

Echo Buttons will be sold in packs of two for $19.99 and are set to arrive before the holiday season in the US, UK, and Germany. To learn more about when Echo Buttons are available visit amazon.com/alexagadgets.

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