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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.
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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 ...
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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. “I started off working in trust & safety, then moved to customer experience,” he shared.
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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 ... 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....
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r/gaming on Reddit: Big layoffs hitting Amazon as soon as tomorrow, including within the video-game division
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I gotta tell you; I'm shocked Amazon's gaming division has anyone to lay off because I'm shocked it still exists. Heard a guy say he was playing New World the other day and I said 'New World is still running?'
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I don't wanna undercut how much it sucks that 30,000 more tech jobs are on the chopping block but my first thought at seeing this was "oh yeah, Amazon does have a gaming department". I guess I just completely suppressed any memory of New World.