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Feature

Amazon's widening bet on games: "We're not hell bent on just being MMOs"

EMEA publishing director Jon Rosenblatt on the King of Meat reveal and how the success of New World and Lost Ark ignited developer interest in Amazon

Aug. 21, 2024 James Batchelor

News

Twitch staff fear further layoffs

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has "shown little tolerance for unprofitable businesses", WSJ claims

July 30, 2024 Vikki Blake

News

Xbox Cloud Gaming coming to Amazon Fire TV in select markets

Partnership begins next month, enables players in 25 countries to stream games via their Fire TV Stick

June 27, 2024 James Batchelor

News

Crystal Dynamics and Amazon team up to create more Tomb Raider film and streaming media

Phoebe Waller-Bridge is attached to the Lara Croft project as both its writer and executive producer

May 14, 2024 Jeffrey Rousseau

Opinion

Leveraging TV and movie adaptations to benefit game franchises | Opinion

Despite Fallout and other successes, the industry still hasn’t found a strategy to retain new audiences from TV and film

April 26, 2024 Rob Fahey

News

Fallout Shelter's daily revenue rockets to $80,000 after TV show debut

Sensor Tower data also shows that downloads rose more than doubled around launch of Amazon Prime show

April 16, 2024 James Batchelor

Feature

Where to get illegally pirated games | This Week in Business

A look at who is allowed to profit off counterfeit games and how the industry goes after everyone else

Dec. 8, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

News

Amazon reduces games division by 180

VP Christoph Hartmann attributed the decision to refining prime benefits to offering customers free games

Nov. 13, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau

News

Twitch makes another round of layoffs

Latest cuts limited to customer support as streaming service relies more on outsourcing

Oct. 3, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

Feature

Microsoft's concerning conflict minerals disclosure reflects industry-wide slippage

Our annual report finds industry efforts to avoid funding human rights abuses worsening almost across the board

Aug. 2, 2023 Brendan Sinclair

Feature

Amazon's second attempt at making one MMO to rule them all

Christoph Hartmann shares Amazon Games' ambitions for its new Lord of the Rings project, and how it will compete with its long-established rival

May 16, 2023 James Batchelor

News

Amazon and Embracer partner for new Lord of the Rings MMO

Amazon Games' Christoph Hartmann tells us team aims to make "the largest MMO out there"

May 15, 2023 James Batchelor

News

Amazon lays off nearly 100 staffers from its gaming divisions

The redundancies come weeks after the firm laid off more than 400 employees from Twitch

April 5, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau

News

Amazon Luna launches in the UK, Germany and Canada

Ubisoft+ support also available to UK subscribers from today as Amazon's cloud gaming service expands

March 22, 2023 James Batchelor

News

Amazon to cut 9000 roles

Update: Over 400 Twitch staff laid off as user and revenue growth fail to meet expectations due to "current macroeconomic environment"

March 21, 2023 Jeffrey Rousseau

News

Twitch exec addresses backlash over revenue split change

Chief monetisation officer says Amazon ownership is irrelevant because Twitch is expected to be "a sustainable, viable, long-term business"

Oct. 14, 2022 James Batchelor

Stub

Lost Ark passes 20m players

Amazon and Smilegate's RPG also reached 1.32 million concurrent users at its peak, the second highest in Steam's history

March 8, 2022 Marie Dealessandri

News

Amazon pens deal with dj2 Entertainment

The transmedia company behind 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog film is set to create exclusive content for Prime Video service

Feb. 17, 2022 Jeffrey Rousseau

Feature

Amazon could be Valve's only serious challenger | Opinion

With Twitch as its springboard, leaked Steam competitor Vapor could be the biggest disruption to the PC market in decades

Oct. 8, 2021 Rob Fahey

News

Amazon Games drops guidelines that laid claim to employees' personal projects

Old rules also requested that games be made only using company tools, and distributed via the firm's store

Aug. 13, 2021 Danielle Partis

News

Amazon's New World beta sees over 200,000 players

Upcoming MMO becomes one of the most played games on Steam this past weekend

July 26, 2021 Jeffrey Rousseau

Feature

What do Stadia's struggles mean for game streaming?

With Google's closure of Stadia Games and Entertainment, other players in the game streaming space explain why they're still optimistic

March 10, 2021 James Batchelor

News

Marc Whitten swaps Amazon for Unity

Former Xbox exec left Amazon five months after rolling out the Luna streaming service

Feb. 25, 2021 Matthew Handrahan

Stub

Amazon opens Luna early access to new users

More Fire TV owners can now access the could gaming service, and purchasing the Luna Controller is no longer by invitation

Feb. 25, 2021 Matthew Handrahan

News

Next CEO believes Amazon can succeed in games "if we hang in there"

Andy Jassy expresses support for internet giant's struggling games division

Feb. 4, 2021 James Batchelor