Our latest coverage of Amazon Game Studios.
While the gaming community was engrossed with the announcements, reveals, and fanfare over at E3 earlier this week, Amazon Game Studios took the opportunity to quietly lay off dozens of employees and reportedly cancel a number of unannounced projects. According to Kotaku, Amazon gave the affected employees 60 days to look for a new job within Amazon. Severance packages await [...]
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The future of Amazon Game Studios has looked pretty bleak since their flagship game Breakaway was cancelled a few months ago. This also shed doubt on whether the studio’s other games will ever see the light of day, including Crucible and the highly-anticipated MMO sandbox game New World. Amazon, however, has just announced that 20-year industry veteran Christoph Hartmann has [...]
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Another veteran developer joins the growing Amazon Game Studios team. Daybreak’s Sebastian Strzalkowski announced on Twitter this week that he will be starting his new job at the San Diego-based studio later this month. Grateful for 13 rewarding yrs at SOE/Daybreak, honored to work with such talented folks. Starting new job @AMZNGameStudios later this month! pic.twitter.com/J1LgYAe5TB — Sebastian (@crowempires) June [...]
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We know John Smedley has joined Amazon Game Studios, but we only just realized that nearly all of Pixelmage Games has joined with him. The hawk eyed investigators at MassivelyOP used a newly minted photograph of Smedley and crew at Amazon and compared it with the profile pictures of former Pixelmage employees. And there's a match. Interesting. So, of course, this [...]
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You guys remember John Smedley, right? President of Sony Online Entertainment, which later became Daybreak Game Company? Most recently worked on Hero's Song, which his company Pixelmage Games raised over $2.8 million to develop before canceling the game a month into Early Access? Yeah, that guy. He just got hired by Amazon Game Studios. But wait, that's not all. He [...]
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Breakaway is a 4v4 MOBA where two teams score points by getting a ball (called a relic) into the opponent's goal. Add buildable structures and different combat roles into the mix, and let the chaos ensue. [singlepic id=61155 w=428 h=240 float=none] Publisher: Amazon Game Studios Type: MOBA Release Date: December 15, 2016 (alpha) Shut Down Date: March 31, 2018 Pros: [...]
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We still have no idea whether Amazon Game Studios' first game will be an MMO or not, but the studio recently hired former ArenaNet Game Director Colin Johanson, so we'll keep up the dream for now, yeah? What we do know, thanks to social media accounts, is that the game is probably called "Breakaway." We also know that it will probably, [...]
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Former ArenaNet—Guild Wars 2—game director Colin Johanson has joined Amazon Game Studios. Amazon has been adding names from the industry to their roster for some time now, e.g. former EA creative director Richard Hilleman of EA and game designer Jeff Grubb (also of Guild Wars 2 fame). And Amazon tweeted just the other day that they're still looking for someone [...]
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