Internal memo: Amazon makes “significant role reductions” to its game division and will cut down on big budget titles, as it focuses on Luna and casual games
Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs — Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division …
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Discussion
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@yawlighthouse
@yawlighthouse
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Just got laid off from Amazon Games San Diego(including like 99% of the studio), the team I worked with was incredible and I will miss all of them. If I had the opportunity to work with them again I would take it in a heartbeat!
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@towelthetank
@towelthetank
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https://www.newworld.com/... So pretty much at most 14 more months of New World unless something happens in between now and the end of 2026. [image]
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@stevenjsharif
Steven Sharif
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I am saddened to see the decision to layoff the incredibly passionate and talented team at @amazongames and the ending of @playnewworld. And it seems with the recent announcements from Zenimax and Netease cancelling development on their MMOs, western MMO development has taken
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@luckyghosttv
@luckyghosttv
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LOTR MMO also confirmed dead, again. (along with New World) Pivoting to covering the RPG genre as a whole (RPG, ARPG, MMORPG) was the best career decision I ever made. It is a rough time to be an MMO player Amazon plans to pivot to making smaller “ai games” [image]
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@knoebel
@knoebel
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Amazon is laying off a significant (but unknown) number of employees. — The studios in Irvine and San Diego got hit hard as well as the central publishing team. Amazon will halt work on MMOs within Amazon Games Studios. — www.bloomberg.com/news/article... [image]
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@davelee.me
Dave Lee
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Have any post-Bezos areas of focus worked at Amazon? [embedded post]
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@jasonschreier
Jason Schreier
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BREAKING: Amazon is making “significant” cuts to its video-game division, moving away from MMOs like New World, and gutting its Irvine and San Diego development studios www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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@mattmcmuscles
Matt McMuscles
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Many reasons to dislike Amazon but their games division has to be their biggest failure. So much talent wasted on projects that never came out, denying us dozens of great console titles from certain developers because they were instead wooed by lucrative deals, thinking they wer…
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