The Twitch layoffs are just a part of the more than 9,000 positions eliminated from Amazon today.

On Monday, Amazon announced plans to cut another 9,000 positions from areas including Amazon Web Services (AWS), human resources, advertising, and Twitch. The additional 9,000 layoffs are planned to be completed by the end of April and follow the 18,000 people that have already been laid off from Amazon from December 2022 through January 2023.

Amazon says that these layoffs...

A very quick return on investment for Embracer Group.

In May 2022, Embracer Group purchased three Square Enix studios for just $300 million (USD). This amount included the studios, employees, and numerous IPs that belonged to these studios. One of those IPs was Tomb Raider.

It is now being reported by Fellowship of Fans that Embracer has leased just the Tomb Raider IP to Amazon for $600 million. Their original story said that the rights were sold outright to Amazon, but...

The show will be an original story and won't try to rehash the same events from Fallout 3 or Fallout 4.

We're starting to get a few new details, slowly but surely, about the upcoming Fallout TV show that Amazon is working on. The latest comes from none other than Todd Howard himself, where he notes that the Fallout TV series will be a new story that takes place at the same time as the events in say Fallout 3 and Fallout 4.

Howard shared some information about the Fallout...

Yep, that's a vault.

The birthday celebrations for the Fallout franchise continued today. This time, the latest is from Amazon. We've seen a lot of love this month for the games and some of the extended media, but today we were finally treated to the first ever look at the Fallout TV show that Amazon is helping to develop alongside Bethesda.

Well, it's not much. I'll tell you that right now. Amazon offered just a single screenshot from their upcoming Fallout TV show. It...

Dead Island 2 seems to be back from the dead... again.

Dead Island 2 was announced way back at E3 2014. The announcement trailer was pretty great. It was supposed to be out Spring 2015. Then it was delayed until 2016. Then the Dead Island 2 developer, Yager, was dropped by Deep Silver. Then in 2016 it was reported that Sumo Digital took over the development of Dead Island 2. Then in 2019, Sumo Digital partnered with 2K for some mystery projects, with at least one presumed to be Dead...

Different shows for different services.

Sony just announced that they are making TV adaptations of three major PlayStation franchises. Included in this is a TV series based on Horizon for Netflix, a God of War series for Amazon, and some sort of Gran Turismo series (not at all pictured above, unless...) going to a currently unannounced platform or network.

These shows were revealed during Sony's latest investor briefing that took place earlier in the day on May 26. Sony...

Twitch is considering changes to how it pays their top talent.

A new report by Bloomberg suggests that Twitch, the Amazon owned streaming website, is looking at potential changes to payout amounts for streamers while also increasing the number of ads that viewers see. The Bloomberg report cites "people familiar with the planning" at Twitch.

This potential update suggests that Twitch will offer more incentives for streamers to run ads for their viewers, while...

It'll be a live-action series based off of the games.

Amazon Prime Video is apparently working on a live-action series based off of the God of War video games. This is according to a new report by Deadline.

Deadline says that Amazon is in talks with Sony to adapt God of War into a live-action series. Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, the creators and executive producers on The Expanse are said to be interested in joining this series. They will also possibly be joined by producer...

A deal is reportedly nearing between EA, BioWare, and Amazon.

A new report suggests that Amazon Studios is nearing a deal to create a new Mass Effect TV series based on the sci-fi RPG from BioWare. This information comes from a Deadline report about the recent success of the Wheel of Time adaptation from Amazon.

Deadline's report says Amazon is already getting more adaptations ready for other popular franchises. Mass Effect is one of those franchises. Their report says...

More servers is more better.

Yesterday, Amazon Games launched their new MMORPG New World to some really eager players. I guess the desire for a new MMO was extra strong because damn did this game ever take off. As we reported yesterday, there were several hundred thousand people stuck in server queues for multiple hours. These were in addition to the some 427,000+ players that were already actually playing at the time.

Part of the problem for New World is the fact that...

Game developers need to unionize.

Earlier this week, Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick sent out an internal email that said the company would be reviewing policies and procedures in order to help promote a more inclusive workplace. This came after the company was sued by the state of California following a two-year long investigation into multiple cases of sexual harassment and discrimination. However, this email from Kotick came just prior to details being shared publicly about...

Get a fresh look at their upcoming open-world MMO.

It has been about a year since New World from Amazon Games was initially supposed to be released. Here we are a year later and while it still isn't out yet, it does have a brand new trailer to share. Amazon Games has been working diligently on this open-world MMO. The latest trailer takes players "deep into the Amrine Excavation."

To put it another way: This new trailer shows off a five player dungeon that "takes...

Now expected to be released this August.

New World, the upcoming MMO from Amazon Games, has been delayed twice already. It was first supposed to release in May 2020 but was then pushed back to an August 2020 release window. From there, it was then delayed until "Spring 2021." Now, that window is also shut and with it comes another move, this time to an August 2021 release.

The good news here is that they plan to have a closed beta beginning in July for would-be...

Luna is a new streaming service from Amazon.

Amazon is pushing even further into the realm of gaming this week with their announcement of Amazon Luna, a new cloud gaming platform similar to Google Stadia and Microsoft's xCloud. Like Stadia, Luna will be compatible with a number of different devices, many of which are made by Amazon.

The full list of supported devices includes the following:

• PC (Windows 10 with DirectX 11 support)
• Mac (OSX 10.13 or later)
• Fire TV

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