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Amazon Games Slashes AAA Projects Amid Layoffs, Shifts Focus to Online Strategy

Amazon Game Studios is facing major changes as part of a wave of layoffs hitting the company this week. Bloomberg reports ...

As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time

If you're wondering how it all went so wrong, former VP Ethan Evans might be able to shed some light on things.

Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games

As part of Amazon’s mass layoffs announced today, the company is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, ...

Amazon’s Once Massively Popular MMO Is Going On Life Support

New World at one point had over a million concurrent players on Steam, but will no longer get new content updates in 2026 ...
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Amazon has apparently laid off its Game Studios, including the New World team

It's been reported that Amazon has laid off thousands of employees, including the entire team behind New World.

Former Amazon dev suggests Lord of the Rings MMO cancelled following recent studio "gutting"

Amid reports Amazon has 'gutted' its video games division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts earlier this week, ...

Angry Fans Are Review-Bombing Amazon’s Now Abandoned MMO: ‘F*** Corporate Greed’

A hit MMO at launch, it will now be remembered as an unfortunate sacrifice on the altar of the tech giant’s coming AI transformation. The company has announced that New World will get no more new ...