Amazon Game Studios lays off staff members throughout E3

Amazon Game Studios laid off staff members today, the tech business verified on Friday. The layoffs come throughout the week of E3, the world’s most significant video gaming conference. Amazon Game Studios, released in 2012, makes video games consisting of New World, The Grand Tour Game and Crucible. It has studios in San Diego and Orange County, California, and at Amazon’s HQ in Seattle. 

“Amazon Game Studios is reorganizing some of our teams to allow us to prioritize development of New World, Crucible and new unannounced projects we’re excited to reveal in the future,” an Amazon representative informed CNET in an emailed declaration.

Amazon didn’t state the number of individuals were impacted by the task cuts.

The representative included that the business is working to “align resources to match evolving, long-range priorities.”

“Amazon is deeply committed to games and continues to invest heavily in Amazon Game Studios, Twitch, Twitch Prime, AWS, our retail businesses and other areas within Amazon,” the representative stated.

One individual who was laid off stated Amazon Game Studios informed staff members they had 60 days to discover a brand-new position within Amazon, otherwise they’d get a severance plan, Kotaku reported Friday.

According to Kotaku, Amazon has actually likewise canceled a number of unannounced video games.

The news follows Amazon Game Studios verifying the cancellation of its competitive computer game Breakaway in 2015 “after a lot of soul searching.”