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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 - Amazon Games has had a long road up until now, with some projects not coming to fruition while the company slowly acquired or opened new studios. Infamously, Amazon Games launched a hero shooter called Crucible, with a poor reception leading to the game being taken back into beta before being cancelled outright.
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August 2, 2012 - Amazon Game Studios reposted · Play Tomb Raider · @PlayTombRaider · · · Dec 11 · Some legends are destined to be retold. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of Lara Croft’s iconic 1996 debut. Coming to PC, PS5, and Xbox ...
Amazon 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, 2025Amazon 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 4, 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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1 week ago - Dec 11, 2025 Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics Unveil Two Thrilling Tomb Raider Adventures at The Game Awards
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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 - RPG Less than a week after dropping a big new trailer at The Game Awards, Exodus studio head James Ohlen has stepped down because he 'felt his work on the game was complete' Gaming Industry CEO of Manor Lords and Against the Storm publisher says publishers should not be trying to 'break even at the expense of developers' and should be willing to take a loss because they can afford to 'spread the risk' MOBA Amazon sells a free-to-play MOBA it had in development, and the studio making it, to Ubisoft
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Amazon Game Studios also publishes ... with Lost Ark from Smilegate RPG, THRONE AND LIBERTY from NCSOFT, and King of Meat from Glowmade, as well as the next major entry in the Tomb Raider series from Crystal Dynamics...
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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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New World (video game) - Wikipedia
4 days ago - New World was first revealed in September 2016, at TwitchCon. Amazon Game Studios announced they would be working on their first three PC games: Breakaway, Crucible and New World.
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 - September 30, 2016 was a big day for Amazon Game Studios: It was on that day, at TwitchCon, it unveiled Breakaway, Crucible, and New World, signalling a major push into the realm of big-budget game development.
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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 ...
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Courtroom Chaos – Now the pinnacle of Amazon Game Studios · This is something your mother would probably enjoy, a chance to laugh at a black man transgressing the norms of “polite society” or something. That is Snoop Dogg’s shtick for sure these days, and I am sure it pays well, but it isn’t a serious video game with any depth.
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Amazon Games Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt AAA Development
October 31, 2025 - According to Boom, Amazon is “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,” as Amazon’s Montreal game studio is ...
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Amazon Games is a sub-section of ... of AAA-style titles and most recently unveiled an MMO-style free-to-play ARPG called Lost Ark...
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Amazon Job Cuts Hit Video Games Division
October 28, 2025 - Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games, said in a message to staff the company has “made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studio.”
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Amazon making ‘significant’ cuts to games business, moving away from MMOs | VGC
October 29, 2025 - According to the internal memo, Amazon will continue to work on various game projects, including the next Tomb Raider game with Crystal Dynamics, and Maverick Games’ open world driving game.
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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."
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Amazon Game Studios launched “Lost Within,” its latest mobile gaming title, for iOS and Fire devices… Read More · by Blair Hanley Frank on March 6, 2015March 6, 2015 at 9:52 am · Amazon announced today that several of the original video game titles developed by its in-house gaming studio will be available to play on Apple iOS devices in addition to the…