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CRON
10/28/25 12:35:47 PM
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Normal Bloomberg link is too long so here's a tinyurl

https://tinyurl.com/5dsbetxa

Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division as part of a sweeping layoff that will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs.
The company didnt say how many roles it will cut in the video-game unit, but noted in a memo to staff on Tuesday that the cuts would largely fall on its offices in Irvine and San Diego, as well at its central publishing division. The company will reduce the amount of work it does on big-budget titles, particularly surrounding massively multiplayer online games or MMOs.

While were 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, wrote Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games, in an email to staff reviewed by Bloomberg News.

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wackyteen
10/28/25 12:37:05 PM
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Amazon has a gaming division?

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solosnake
10/28/25 12:38:14 PM
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Is New World dead now then?

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CRON
10/28/25 12:38:31 PM
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wackyteen posted...
Amazon has a gaming division?
For over a decade. They also acquired the rights to Tomb Raider.

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A_Good_Boy
10/28/25 12:40:13 PM
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Dang, and a buddy of mine was really hyping up New World.

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GoogleStadia
10/28/25 12:47:57 PM
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Hah.

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bluezero
10/28/25 1:40:30 PM
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solosnake posted...
Is New World dead now then?
That's their only MMO, I think. So yeah.

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DrizztLink
10/28/25 1:42:27 PM
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solosnake posted...
Is New World dead now then?
I can't show you the worllllld

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Limelol
10/28/25 1:43:40 PM
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solosnake posted...
Is New World dead now then?
First thing that came to my mind. No clue how it's been faring as of late, though.

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Zeeak4444
10/28/25 1:45:35 PM
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A_Good_Boy posted...
Dang, and a buddy of mine was really hyping up New World.

I just redownloaded it Saturday (but havent played yet).

I watched the recent updates and saw the population had risen a bunch. Was a great game and I only quit originally because there wasnt enough serve pop to run dungeons.

I saw a bunch of videos on the games roadmap and upcoming changes and was pretty hyped myself to jump back in but now idk lol.

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solosnake
10/28/25 3:06:28 PM
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Limelol posted...
First thing that came to my mind. No clue how it's been faring as of late, though.
they've done a ton of work to finally make it good. Lots of free updates though, so the execs probably didn't like that

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