This year has been marked by layoffs in the video game industry. It has recently been added to a large number of companies. Amazon. It is laying off more than 180 employees in its gaming division. But these are not so much developers as content creators, testers and the marketing department.
About 100 employees at Amazon’s gaming division were already laid off in April. According to Christopa Hartmann, vice president of Amazon Gaming, subscription players contributed to the current layoffs. Prime Gaming they want more “free” games. Therefore, after careful consideration, the company decided to terminate the channel’s employees. Crown on Twitch (Amazon owns all of Twitch) and the team Game growthwhich provides developer support such as testing and marketing.
The money saved will be invested in improving the Prime Gaming service. But no one has said exactly what this will mean. We can only guess whether the best works will be offered. Now you can subscribe to something like Rage 2: Deluxe Edition, Doom 3 or Metal Slug X.
Amazon wants to continue developing its own games. In addition to expanding large-scale multiplayer games Lost Ark And New world this is the new adventure of Lara Crof V tomb Raiderdeveloped by Crystal Dynamics studio, and MMO games. Lord of the Rings And Blue Protocol.
The Amazon Games division was founded in 2012, but has not yet achieved much success. It is headquartered in Seattle and includes Relentless Studios (the team behind cruciblebut the project was cancelled), Amazon Games Orange County (New World), Amazon Games San Diego and Amazon Games Montreal.
Let us remember that Embracer Group, Epic Games, Microsoft, Bungie, Ubisoft or PlayStation Studios were also fired this year. In total, 6,500 people working in the video game world were laid off in 2023 alone.
Source :Indian TV
