October 28, 2025 - Update: Amazon has confirmed plans to make approximately 14,000 people redundant within its corporate workforce, including staff within its video game division. Beth Galetti, SVP of people experience and technology at Amazon, confirmed the news ...

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 ...

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.

November 21, 2025 - The company also told staffers it's halting much of its work on big-budget, or triple A, game development, specifically around massively multiplayer online, or MMO, games, Boom wrote.

Amazon laid off about 100 employees in its video-game divisions as part of its broader cutbacks, affecting workers at Prime Gaming, Game Growth and the company's San Diego studio.

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.

October 28, 2025 - Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs

October 28, 2025 - As reported, up to 30,000 employees will lose their jobs. 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.

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. “I started off working in trust & safety, then moved to customer experience,” he shared.

If you saw this morning’s whispers ... 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....

October 28, 2025 - According to a memo that Bloomberg saw, the job cuts largely fall on Amazon's offices in Irvine and San Diego. It's unclear exactly how many of the 14,000 jobs are part of the company's gaming division, but the central publishing unit has been ...

April 4, 2023 - Amazon.com Inc. laid off about 100 employees in its video-game divisions as part of its broader cutbacks, affecting workers at Prime Gaming, Game Growth and the company’s San Diego studio.

November 14, 2023 - The company is shutting down two gaming initiatives, Crown Channel and Game Growth, according to an internal memo from Christoph Hartmann, vice president of Amazon Games. The shift will result in “just over” 180 employees losing their jobs.

October 28, 2025 - Strategic changes at games “go beyond what is happening company-wide,” he said. Amazon confirmed earlier that it is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs across divisions and that more layoffs are likely in the cards.

Amazon Games Confirms Layoffs of About 180 Employees, a Refocus on Prime Gaming Benefit to Customers | MMORPG.com Amazon Games has confirmed another round of layoffs, this time affecting around 180 people.

Mega-corporation Amazon is laying off more than 14,000 people across its various divisions, including "significant role reductions" across its gaming divisions, which have created games like New World, Lost Ark, and more, according to a Bloomberg ...

September 13, 2023 - From my reading of, a different article on the same subject, it does sound like it's just getting rid of these two teams, which resulted in 180 people losing their jobs. Nothing about actual game devs, just people in their "Games Division". This is from the full statement from Amazon:

April 5, 2023 - ... Amazon.com Inc. laid off about 100 employees in its video-game divisions as part of its broader cutbacks, affecting workers at Prime Gaming, Game Growth and the company’s San Diego studio.

April 4, 2023 - Last month, Jassy announced Amazon would lay off an additional 9,000 employees, which includes these Games group layoffs, on top of the previous round of cuts totaling more than 18,000 people.