Samsung has launched its own version of the App Store, a web-based service called Samsung Mobile Applications.
The store currently offers apps across a range of categories, initially for 11 of the company's handsets.
Mobile games are clearly a big part of the store's catalogue - there are currently 150 games available. They can be sorted by title, number of downloads, user rating and price (among other attributes).
Looking down the list of games sorted by downloads, publishers like HeroCraft, Concrete Software and Spb Software have been earliest onto the store.
The pricing is a bit strange, mind - the vast majority of the top ten are priced at more than £7.
The store will be officially launched at Mobile World Congress next month, and is already being pitched to the company's Samsung Mobile Innovator development community.
"For Samsung Mobile Innovator members this represents a fantastic opportunity for them to get their applications to a large Samsung-user audience very quickly," says global marketing manager Phil Northam.
We wonder what it means for the prospects of Samsung's separate Samsung Fun Club service, which at the time of writing is still up and running.
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