With mass layoffs affecting people at both small studios and tech giants, Amazon is the latest company to announce job cuts. The move will affect employees in its video game division.

Amazon has decided to lay off more than 100 employees in its gaming division. The company says these changes should help it achieve its long-term goal of becoming one of the world’s leading game publishers.

Amazon will hold a special workshop at the upcoming WN Belgrade’23 conference. The talk, aimed at a non-technical audience, will guide attendees through the different stages of a game’s lifecycle and provide insights into monetization, retention, and other metrics.

John Smedley, experienced executive and one of the creators of EverQuest, has stepped down as the head of Amazon Game Studios San Diego. He has been with the company for six years, but hasn’t shipped a single game.

The US Department of Justice has supported a new antitrust legislation, raising concerns over the domination of tech giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon. This bill could prevent platform holders from favoring their products over those of competitors.

Automating customer support might be good for cutting costs, but sometimes it leads to really unpleasant results for actual clients. One of the Amazon app developers has shared a story of their account being suspended after making an occasional purchase.

Writer David Gaider, who worked at BioWare for almost 17 years, has shared his thoughts on the possible Mass Effect TV series. He explained why he thinks that a ME show is not necessarily the best idea and there’s a good chance its showrunners will fail.

The Mass Effect franchise might expand into TV in the future, as Amazon Studios is reportedly in talks to develop a series based on popular games. However, there are not many details available about the project.

New World has become the first major success for Amazon in the games market. Although the initial hype has started to wear off, the MMORPG is still the third most played title on Steam.

Twitch has been hacked by an anonymous leaker, who revealed its source code, streamers’ payout information, and other data. The leak also includes information about a project codenamed Vapor, which seems to be an in-development Steam competitor.

New World came out on September 28, drawing attention from hundreds of thousands of players. It helped the new MMORPG from Amazon become the fifth most played title in Steam’s history.

Amazon Games has announced its partnership with indie studio Glowmade. It will develop an original IP, which will be an online co-op game inspired by Labyrinth and Wrestlemania.

Twitch announced that it’s introducing new Software & Game Development streaming category to improve the discoverability of content for devs.

Amazon’s gaming division discontinued its policies regarding games created by employees outside of work hours as a hobby.

New World, a new MMORPG from Amazon Games, has become a new chart-topper on Steam. The game continues to attract new players ahead of its official launch.

James Liu, a software engineer at Google, has shared a piece of Amazon’s employment contract. The post went viral due to some rules the company allegedly has regarding creating your personal games as a hobby. Here is what other developers and users think of it.

Bad luck seems to continue to plague Amazon’s incursions into the gaming space. The Twitch owner has canceled The Lord of the Rings online role-playing game announced in 2019.

Amazon has pulled the plug on Crucible, a sci-fi free-to-play multiplayer shooter that has been in development since 2014.

Following roughly a 16-month investigation, a US House of Representative antitrust committee has found that Amazon, Google, Apple, and Facebook have engaged in anti-competitive policies.