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r/MMORPG on Reddit: Amazon Games Unit Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt ‘Significant Amount’ of AAA Development and Shift Online Strategy
October 28, 2025 -
It sounds like ALL MMO development has been shuttered (Including LOTR) - per the letter that went out.
"We’ve also taken a critical look at the evolving dynamics of games industry and competitive landscape. While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team.
While these changes are significant, we still have a lot going on in game development. Our Montreal studio recently concluded a successful closed alpha of March of Giants and is working hard to finish the game. Our Studio 5 team just released Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg as the launch title in Luna and will continue their focus on more casual and AI-focused games, optimized for Luna. Finally, we are continuing to work with our external studio partners Crystal Dynamics on an upcoming Tomb Raider title and Maverick Games on an upcoming open world driving game."
PC Gamer
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Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development' | PC Gamer
October 28, 2025 - Amazon's AI-powered layoff of 14,000 employees will see "significant" cuts made to its game division, according to a new Bloomberg report, which will result in a reduction in development efforts on big-budget games, including MMOs like New World.
Videos
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Amazon Just Gutted Their Entire MMO Division - YouTube
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Amazon’s MMO Collapse Explained - The Future of New World, Lost ...
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Amazon layoffs hit engineers, gaming division, ad business - YouTube
Bloomberg: Layoffs to hit Amazon Gaming Division
Sad but I forgot that they had a gaming division More on reddit.com
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August 31, 2025After Massive Layoffs, Amazon Studios Announces That New World Won't Be Getting New Content Anymore
Just four years before they pulled the plug on their MMO. This is why nobody trusts their company and one of the reasons their games don't get any hype. More on reddit.com
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October 29, 2025Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division
I don’t think anyone in these comments read the article. These cuts weren’t to the game studios divisions in Amazon (those are the ones that actually make games). More on reddit.com
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September 15, 2023Amazon Games Unit Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt ‘Significant Amount’ of AAA Development and Shift Online Strategy
Its the end of Amazon game development. They probably have few more casual games in pipeline - that are complete crap btw. And then they will close it 100% More on reddit.com
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October 28, 2025Game Developer
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Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles
October 28, 2025 - Chris Kerr, Senior Editor, News, GameDeveloper.com ... Update: Amazon has confirmed plans to make approximately 14,000 people redundant within its corporate workforce, including staff within its video game division.
Variety
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Amazon Games Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt AAA Development
October 31, 2025 - An undisclosed number of cuts have been made in the Amazon Game Studios business, as first reported by Bloomberg’s Jason Schrier and confirmed by Variety, as part of the overall elimination of 14,000 corporate workers at Amazon this week.
IMDb
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Amazon Games Layoffs: What Other Games Might Shut Down Apart From New World? - IMDb
1 month ago - The massive layoffs in Amazon’s gaming department (Amazon Games) have sent massive shockwaves through the community. While this is impacting the developers, it will also affect gamers, as New World might not be the only game shutting down; the division’s entire Mmo catalogue is in danger.
Forbes
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Amazon Games Ends Support For MMO ‘New World’ Following Mass Layoffs
October 29, 2025 - The never-ending carousel of game industry layoffs continues once again as Amazon announced its cutting more than 14,000 jobs across the entire company, with specific reductions happening at Amazon Games and its in-house MMO, New World.
Insider Gaming
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Amazon's King of Meat Developer Glowmade Faces Layoffs Following Disastrous Game Launch - Insider Gaming
2 weeks ago - Several developers at Amazon Games' King of Meat developer, Glowmade, have announced they will be made redundant in January 2026.
GamesRadar+
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Amazon Games gutted amid 14,000 layoffs: work on first-party games and MMOs in particular scaled back, "casual and AI-focused games" a continued focus | GamesRadar+
October 28, 2025 - Here’s how it works. ... Amazon confirms it is reducing its global workforce by "approximately 14,000 roles", and there have been substantial cuts across its burgeoning video game division.
PC Gamer
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As Amazon's game business crumbles, the public is surprised to discover that it was trying to compete with Steam all this time | PC Gamer
October 29, 2025 - Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development'
Reddit
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r/GamingLeaksAndRumours on Reddit: Bloomberg: Layoffs to hit Amazon Gaming Division
August 31, 2025 -
https://gameworldobserver.com/2025/10/28/report-amazon-to-conduct-massive-layoffs-gaming-division-also-affected
Reports indicate that the layoffs will affect several key Amazon divisions, including the gaming sector. However, the exact number of staff to be cut from the gaming teams is unknown.
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r/gaming on Reddit: After Massive Layoffs, Amazon Studios Announces That New World Won't Be Getting New Content Anymore
October 29, 2025 - Amazon Games Unit Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt ‘Significant Amount’ of AAA Development and Shift Online Strategy
Yahoo! Finance
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Amazon employees will soon suffer from alarming workplace trend
October 22, 2025 - So far this year, Amazon has conducted layoffs in several departments, such as dozens of workers in communications, hundreds in its devices and services unit and more in its Amazon Web Services cloud computing unit.
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r/Games on Reddit: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division
September 15, 2023 - It says the 180 layoffs includes those two teams. For all we know those two teams could be 10 people and the other 170 people could be in their proper game dev teams ... From my reading of, a different article on the same subject, it does sound ...
The Verge
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Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games | The Verge
October 28, 2025 - Amazon is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA MMOs, according to an executive memo.
Videogames Chronicle
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Amazon making ‘significant’ cuts to games business, moving away from MMOs | VGC
October 29, 2025 - Specifically, the San Diego and Irvine development studios, which are responsible for MMOs New World and an untitled The Lord of the Rings game, have seen significant reductions, according to Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games. MMO New World is officially ending development, following Amazon’s huge round of layoffs, it’s confirmed.
Kotaku
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Amazon Scales Back Gaming Ambitions Amid 14000 Layoffs
November 4, 2025 - According to an internal memo reviewed by Bloomberg, those cuts include halting a “significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work–specifically around MMOs–within Amazon Game Studios.” The company had previously announced ...
CNBC
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Amazon cuts more than 180 jobs in gaming division
November 14, 2023 - Amazon on Monday announced it will cut more than 180 jobs in its Amazon Games division, shutting down parts of the business that focus on streaming and supporting third-party games and putting more of an emphasis on developing its own titles, ...
Game World Observer
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Report: Amazon to Conduct Massive Layoffs — Gaming Division Also Affected | Game World Observer
October 28, 2025 - Reports indicate that the layoffs will affect several key Amazon divisions, including the gaming sector.
Bloomberg
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Amazon Makes ‘Significant’ Job Cuts in Video-Game Division - Bloomberg
October 28, 2025 - Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division as part of a sweeping layoff that will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs.
Deadline
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Amazon Job Cuts Hit Video Games Division
October 28, 2025 - Video game development and publishing are taking a hit in a wave of layoffs at Amazon today, including the company’s San Diego and Irvine studios as the division’s head said it’s taking “a critical look at the evolving dynamics of games industry.”