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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.”
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 - The VP of Amazon Games says the layoffs are part of the 14,000 announced today, but represent broader "strategic changes" at the gaming division.
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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."
Game 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 - ‘Fallout’ Video Game Boss Says ‘We’re Writing Season 3’ of Amazon TV Series Now, Planning More In-Game Storylines 1 week ago ... Amid sweeping layoffs that began throughout ecommerce giant Amazon Tuesday, the company is making “significant” changes to its video games business.
MMORPG.com
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Amazon Games Confirms Layoffs of About 180 Employees, a Refocus on Prime Gaming Benefit to Customers — MMORPG.com Forums
So it were basically 180 "imaginary" people that were fired today. As who else are those 180 people at a Gaming Company, focused on publishing and developing games? This got to be one of the most bogus non-answer corporate bullsh!it statements ...
The Verge
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Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games | The Verge
October 28, 2025 - As part of Amazon’s mass layoffs announced today, the company is making “significant” changes to its gaming division, including halting much of its work on first-party AAA MMOs, according to a memo from Steve Boom, VP of audio, Twitch, ...
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Amazon Shutters Game Studios Amid Massive Layoffs - Grand Pinnacle Tribune
One X (formerly Twitter) user wrote, “Man, this sucks. ☹️ AGS hit among the 33,000 Amazon employee layoffs today,” capturing the widespread sense of loss and disappointment.
Game World Observer
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Report: Amazon to Conduct Massive Layoffs — Gaming Division Also Affected | Game World Observer
October 28, 2025 - Amazon Corporation is set to announce a significant round of layoffs today, according to sources from Reuters and Bloomberg. As reported, up to 30,000 employees will lose their jobs.
Insider Gaming
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Amazon Games, Twitch Hit By Layoffs; Game Development Reduced - Insider Gaming
October 28, 2025 - “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,” an email sent by vice president of audio, Twitch, and games Steve Boom to employees said. Included in the layoffs was Tarfu, who had been with Twitch for 11 years.
NeoGAF
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Rumor - Report: Amazon to Conduct Layoffs to Gaming Division | NeoGAF
October 28, 2025 - Amazon Corporation is set to announce a significant round of layoffs today, according to sources from Reuters and Bloomberg. As reported, up to 30,000 employees will lose their jobs. Reports indicate that the layoffs will affect several key ...
WebProNews
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Amazon Axes AAA Gaming Dreams Amid Mass Layoffs
October 28, 2025 - Employee reactions on X highlight the emotional toll, with posts lamenting the end of ambitious projects. One X user shared, “Man, this sucks. ☹️ AGS hit among the 33,000 Amazon employee layoffs today,” capturing the sentiment of betrayal ...
Massively Overpowered
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Amazon will ‘halt a significant amount’ of first-party game dev, specifically MMOs, in mass layoffs | Massively Overpowered
If you saw this morning’s whispers ... the promise of genAI as Amazon execs claimed. Reporting from Bloomberg this afternoon suggests that among the 14,000 people being laid off will be a major chunk of the games – that is, MMO sector – under the Amazon banner....
Reddit
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r/gaming on Reddit: Amazon Games Unit Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt ‘Significant Amount’ of AAA Development and Shift Online Strategy
August 31, 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."
Reddit
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r/Games on Reddit: Amazon Lays Off 180 Employees In Its Games Division
September 14, 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 ...
Massively Overpowered
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Amazon Games is hit with another round of layoffs, but the MMORPGs are not affected | Massively Overpowered
Our studios and development teams were not impacted today. We will continue to support Prime Gaming as a benefit of Amazon Prime membership, but have refined that specific offering to focus on ‘Free Games with Prime.’” [Emphasis ours.] Here’s Hartmann’s whole letter to staff, which makes clear that the layoffs are focused on Crown Channel and Game Growth.
Reddit
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r/gamingnews on Reddit: 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'
October 28, 2025 -
The VP of Amazon Games says the layoffs are part of the 14,000 announced today, but represent broader "strategic changes" at the gaming division.
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It's wild how as a normal guy you can see stuff clearly that billion dollar companies can't. Greed really does blind people I guess O.o
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That's what happens when you get in with impure intentions. Amazon's studios always felt like they wanted to get on some kind of money train nobody else could see. And with the entire company devolving into a dystopian megacorp, their gaming direction followed, I guess? The entire existence of this division feels cynical and kinda meaningless. 13 years and the only thing they have to show for it is a dying MMO that will no longer be supported.
IGN
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Amazon Has Laid Off 180 Workers From Its Games Division - IGN
November 13, 2023 - In January, the company laid off 18,000 people. In March, the company eliminated an additional 9,000 positions. Amazon Games launched in 2012, though in the 11 years since its formation, the company has struggled to reach success akin to those found at other tech giant companies with gaming arms, such as Sony and Microsoft. A source tells IGN that today's cuts were made as Amazon Games focuses its efforts "on making and publishing video games."...
Windows Central
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Amazon Games layoffs cut into development and publishing groups, ending updates for MMO New World — while the company is praising AI
October 28, 2025 - In a statement reviewed by Bloomberg, Steve Boom, vice president of audio, Twitch, and games, says that the company is “leaning into the things that Amazon does best," while pulling back much of its internal game development, especially for larger MMO (massively multiplayer online) titles. Why are the layoffs happening?
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.