Comment on Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles [including video games]

Lembot_0005@lemy.lol ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mostly they bought or founded studios that didn’t produce a product. They bought the Killer Instinct devs, Double Helix, who mostly have now left and formed Quarter Up Games, working on the new Invincible Vs game. They put out a hero shooter called Crucible that launched and was quickly shut down. Their biggest success has been New World, which is a moderately successful MMO. They also forked CryEngine into Lumberyard, which found some favor in the market. Other than that, they’ve got some co-publishing deals, including for an upcoming Tomb Raider game, which may now be in jeopardy.

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its’s complicated, but basically, Amazon also basically spun off Lumberyard into the fully open source, O3DE engine.

    I am not sure if they still hold any particular rights to anything exclusive to Lumberyard, but yeah, O3DE is basically Lumberyard from some years back, that got handed over to a non profit, and has since been developed by that non profit for… 5 ish years? More?

    The other wild thing is that… somehow, Cloud Imperium / Chris Roberts of Star Citizen… also got a version of Lumberyard/Crytek, or something like that?.. Before Amazon then later spun it off as O3DE.

    So… the crytek engine has very weird family tree, at this point.

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  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Thanks for the rundown!

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  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Sorry to double post but uh… Warframe.

    Are they… still an actual independent studio, that just has a lot of partnerships with Amazon?

    Or did they end up getting folded fully in?

    I’m not gonna pretend like I give a damn about any other Amazon created/associated game, cuz I don’t.

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