Our latest coverage of Amazon Game Studios.
Amazon Game Studios has laid off another batch of employees in its second round of mass layoffs this year (the third for Amazon overall). Sources told Aftermath that another 180 workers from multiple gaming divisions were given their pink slips, including Twitch, Crown Channel, and Game Growth. The 100 employees that were laid off back in April also came from [...]
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As Amazon Game Studios prepares to boldly enter the realm of Middle-earth MMOs, you’d expect them to be a bit more gracious towards those that came before them. The studio, however, is taking a more aggressive approach towards marketing its upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO and has come out swinging at Lord of the Rings Online. In a recent [...]
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Remember that Lord of the Rings MMO that Amazon Game Studios cancelled back in 2021? Well, the game is now back on the drawing table as the studio partners with Embracer Group to finally get it done. Embracer Group is known around these parts as the company that bought out Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios back in 2021 before [...]
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Another man’s trash is another man’s treasure, which in this case is the Tomb Raider franchise. After Square Enix sold off Crystal Dynamics earlier this year and the franchise with it, Amazon Game Studios has swooped in to pick it up and has announced that its working with Crystal Dynamics to develop and publish the next Tomb Raider game. Amazon [...]
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Amazon Game Studios continues to grow its publishing portfolio as it enters a publishing deal with American indie studio, Disruptive Games. The studio is currently working on a AAA UE5-powered multiplayer action adventure game based on an original IP and has been designed with both cooperative and competitive gameplay in mind. “The studio is focused on multiplayer-first gaming experiences that [...]
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Amazon Game Studios head Mike Frazzini has stepped down from his position and will be leaving after almost 18 years with the company. According to Bloomberg, Frazzini made the announcement internally last Friday, saying that he was taking time off to focus on his family. “It’s always been in my head to take time off in the middle of my [...]
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The story of New World’s successful launch and immediate crash is by now well documented. Amazon’s first big launch title was (and still is) plagued by bugs, missing content, and balance issues. From a high of over 900,000 concurrent players, New World now sits at an average daily player count of 13,600 with no floor in sight (as of June, [...]
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Every gamer, at one point or another, has probably dreamt about making their own game. With the recent rise in the popularity of indie games and with easily-accessible developer tools, more and more of those hopeful dreamers have begun making their dreams a reality. With the right team and plenty of resources, it’s easy enough to design a game that [...]
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Over the past few days, Donkey Crew has been publishing a series of dev vlogs that focuses on how to survive and stay safe in the harsh desert world of their upcoming nomadic woodpunk sandbox MMO Last Oasis. The videos give players an overview of bases, walkers, clans, raiding, and how the safe logout feature works. The studio posted the [...]
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While the gaming community was engrossed with the announcements, reveals, and fanfare over at E3 earlier this week, Amazon Game Studios took the opportunity to quietly lay off dozens of employees and reportedly cancel a number of unannounced projects. According to Kotaku, Amazon gave the affected employees 60 days to look for a new job within Amazon. Severance packages await [...]
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