14 DAY TRIAL // Those who were present during last year's GPU14 Tech Day might remember how, in partnership with Raptr, Advanced Micro Devices launched the Gaming Evolved App. Now, the app's uses have expanded.
Advanced Micro Devices has launched the Rewards program, which will allow users of Gaming Evolved to do lots of things and win free stuff.
For one, you can start gathering points. Points collected by performing various acts, like playing specific games that are supported, or optimizing the image quality of a game for the first time.
The program is a sort of analogue, or extension, of Raptr Rewards, according to Raptr CEO Dennis Fong.
"It's really great to be able to reward players for all the time and effort they’ve invested in playing games," he said.
The points are collected in the Gaming Evolved app, as we’ve said, and they can be redeemed on a range of items, like ASTRO gaming headset, GameFly subscriptions, GUNNAR gaming eyewear, even Sapphire-branded Radeon R9 series graphics cards.
Clearly, Advanced Micro Devices isn't playing around here. Instead, it's rewarding its customers for doing that very thing.
In fact, the points can be used to get discounts on over 100,000 games. All in all, the items in the “store” are valued at over $5 million / €3.64 million.
Obviously, that's no small sum, which makes it even more surprising that AMD would throw them all together for people to get for free.
The Gaming Evolved download page is the only place you need to visit if you want to participate in the AMD Rewards program.
It's not surprise that this announcement came this week. After all, NVIDIA has just launched the Maxwell-Based GeForce GTX 750/750 Ti graphics cards, as well as the GTX TITAN Black, so Advanced Micro Devices had to draw the attention of prospective customers back somehow.