Two years after the studio's initial announcement, at the September 2016 TwitchCon, the studio revealed its first three PC games: Breakaway, Crucible, and New World. Amazon Game Studios went on to publish a number of mobile titles, including the horror game Lost Within. A lot of the company's developers left within a year of the company's founding.

For example, developers can offload processing to Amazon's cloud services and the Amazon Fire TV has expanded memory as a result of developer feedback. The studio also wanted developers to impact the direction of their hardware, between its cloud services and Amazon-brand devices. Studio vice-president Mike Frazzini wanted to make projects like Minecraft, The Walking Dead, and The Room.

Amazon Game Studios wanted to make teams of five to thirty people who would work on games for between a year and 18 months with a focus on 'creativity' and 'craftsmanship', whether the genre is for kids or hardcore gamers. Amazon sought to make games in-between the industry standards of small and large teams making casual and AAA games, respectively. Amazon recruited Kim Swift ( Portal, who has since left for Microsoft Games Studios), Clint Hocking ( Far Cry 2), and developers who previously worked on System Shock 2. Īmazon first announced that it would create computer games in 2014. In 2012, Amazon Game Studios released Living Classics, a social game for Facebook. In 2011, Amazon opened the Amazon Appstore and started to hire developers for mobile social games. Amazon Games (formerly Amazon Game Studios) is an American video game company and division of the online retailing company Amazon that primarily focuses on publishing video games developed within the company's development divisions.

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