Amazon ‘gutting’ its video game business, Bloomberg reports

As part of its major round of layoffs announced Tuesday, Amazon is gutting its video game unit, with the unspecified number of roles to be cut set to largely fall on its Irvine and San Diego offices, Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier reports. The company will slash the amount of work it does it on big-budget games, particularly surrounding massively multiplayer online games like “New World,” the author says. “While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team,” Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games, said in an email to staff reviewed by Bloomberg News.