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Formerly Amazon Game Studios (2012–2020)
Amazon Games (2020-2025)
Amazon Games (2020-2025)
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Founded August 7, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-08-07)
Formerly Amazon Game Studios (2012–2020)
Amazon Games (2020-2025)
Amazon Games (2020-2025)
Company type Division
Founded August 7, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-08-07)
Wikipedia
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2 weeks ago - Crucible launched on May 20, 2020, while New World was released on September 28, 2021, after a 2nd pushback date was announced on July 10, 2020, and a 3rd on August 31, 2021. In August 2018, Christoph Hartmann, co-founder of video game publisher 2K Games – a wholly owned subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive – became the new Vice President of Amazon Game Studios working under Mike Frazzini.
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Dec 11, 2025 Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics Unveil Two Thrilling Tomb Raider Adventures at The Game Awards
Amazon Games Studio on Life Support
New World doesn't charge monthly, so you're actually saving them money by buying it then not playing. They could also can the gear treadmill and turn it around at any point they want to. More on reddit.com
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January 10, 2023Amazon Can Make Just About Anything—Except a Good Video Game
It just seems like Amazon’s whole mindset with their game studios is completely flawed. There is no idea or vision with each of their games, Amazon just saw how profitable video games could be and threw money around to get talent. It looks like nobody even considered failure to be a possibility or that a new studio developing games in genres that were already seen as oversaturated may be a bad idea. If higher ups at Amazon genuinely believed that crucible was a unique game that was going to be a success, then I don’t have much hope for their future projects.
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December 3, 2019Amazon Game Studios struggling due to Lumberyard Engine "wasn’t built for the kind of multiplayer games Amazon wanted to make"
There's a reason many successful MMO-type games are built on custom engines instead of using middleware engines. Most game engines aren't built with MMOs in mind. More on reddit.com
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Amazon Game Studios
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Games | Amazon Game Studios
Amazon Game Studios develops AAA multiplayer games based on original IPs and best-in-class third-party games.
Bloomberg
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Amazon Can Make Just About Anything—Except a Good Video Game
January 29, 2021 - Mike Frazzini had never made a video game when he helped start Amazon Game Studios. Eight years later, he has released two duds, withdrew both from stores after a torrent of negative reactions and canceled many more.
Quartz
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Why Amazon keeps failing at video games
July 20, 2022 - It took Amazon only five years after launching a TV studio to win its first Emmy award. But almost nine years since starting a video games division, not only is Amazon not winning any game awards, it’s also struggling to make any games at all.
Video Game Chronicle
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Amazon Games | VGC
October 6, 2021 - Amazon Games is a US-based video game developer with offices in San Diego and Orange County, California, and Seattle, Washington.
The Verge
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Amazon’s new CEO says it’s not done making video games, despite problems | The Verge
April 2, 2021 - Despite Jassy’s support, Amazon Game Studios is still facing challenges. Last year it released, and then pulled and cancelled, Crucible, a hero shooter that drew inspiration from Overwatch. Another of its tentpole games, New World, was also delayed, while a video game adaptation of The Grand Tour was released to such poor reviews in 2019 that it was later removed from storefronts.
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Amazon Game Studios | Amazon.jobs
At AGS, we are developing multiple AAA PC games in our Seattle and Irvine studios that harness the power of AWS and Twitch to create new community-driven game experiences. We are seeking the industry’s best to help us create, publish and support the multiple AAA PC games that we are developing.
WIRED
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Amazon Wants to ‘Win at Games.’ So Why Hasn’t It? | WIRED
October 7, 2020 - The company hung around the low-limit tables for the next few years, releasing a kid-friendly Facebook game starring a family of foxes in 2012—its first under the banner of Amazon Game Studios. At the time, one source said, the company thought of video games as a playful way to move product.
Rock Paper Shotgun
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Report shares more tales of dysfunction at Amazon Game Studios | Rock Paper Shotgun
January 30, 2021 - A new report on Bloomberg has shared more tales of disfunction at Amazon Games Studios, the makers of flops Crucible and Breakaway.
GeekWire
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Here's why Amazon pulled the plug on its first big budget video game 'Crucible' shortly after launch – GeekWire
October 10, 2020 - Amazon Game Studios and Relentless Studios’ online third-person shooter Crucible will be taken offline. An entry labeled as a “final update” on its official development blog went up late on Friday afternoon to inform fans and beta testers that work on the game would be discontinued. Crucible had been in development since 2014 when it launched on May 20, and was heralded as Amazon’s big attempt to break into the video game market.
NYTimes
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Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play - The New York Times
September 28, 2021 - Next month, Amazon plans to ship not only Crucible but also New World, a “massively multiplayer online” game in which thousands of players occupy a persistent fantasy realm based on an alternate 17th century.
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Amazon Game Studios
Their story is the story of Amazon Games. From engineers to artists, development managers to designers, product managers to program managers, our teams create games, products, and services as varied as we are. We invite those interested in being part of something new to explore our openings and join us. ... Time to open the vault door! To celebrate the new Fallout series now available on Prime Video, we're pleased to surprise Prime members with access to two additional Fallout titles available now through Amazon Luna.
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Variety
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Amazon Games Head on 'Tomb Raider,' 'Lord of the Rings' and New IP
June 28, 2024 - Amazon Unveils ‘Tomb Raider: Catalyst’ Video Game First Look and 2027 Release; Sets Remake of Original Lara Croft Game for 2026 30 minutes ago · New Star Wars Video Game ‘Fate of the Old Republic’ Set From Lucasfilm, ‘Mass Effect’ ...
IGN
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Amazon Game Studios · Crucible · May 20, 2020 · Amazon Game Studios · Living Classics · Aug 6, 2012 · +1 · Amazon Game Studios · New World · Sep 28, 2021 · Amazon Game Studios · New World: Aeternum · Oct 15, 2024 · Amazon Game Studios ...
Reddit
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r/Asmongold on Reddit: Amazon Games Studio on Life Support
January 10, 2023 - Trying to make profits as fast as possible. New World was the only game being made by Amazon. Amazon is publishing Lost Ark, Throne and Liberty as well as Blue Protocol. They don't care if players keep playing. They just want to make millions.
GamesIndustry.biz
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Amazon Game Studios | GamesIndustry.biz
Game will roll out more gender classes choices over time and marketing will focus less on featuring female characters with revealing outfits ... Alexandre Parizeau will be leading development of the studio's debut title, a competitive multiplayer game based on a new IP