The new CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, in light of the success of New World on Steam, said that video games could become the largest entertainment category for the company.

Closed beta testing of New World, a premium MMORPG developed by Amazon Games, began yesterday. Already in the first day of online games on Steam exceeded 190 thousand people. Now she is also in the top on Twitch.

Amazon has announced the closure of the online shooter Crucible. It has been in development since 2014 and was supposed to help the company gain a foothold in the video game market, but in the end it could not get out of the closed beta..Crucible was originally released in May of this year.

Christoph Hartmann, who previously headed 2K Games, joined Amazon Game Studios as vice president.

The gaming division of Amazon has refused to create a fantasy sports action Breakaway. Amazon Game Studio has been working on the game since 2016. The developers admitted that they could not achieve the desired result.

Louis Castle, a former co—founder of Westwood Studios, has been appointed head of the gaming division of the American corporation Amazon in Seattle.

Eric Flannum, responsible for the development of Guild Wars 2 and the creation of content in addition to the original Guild Wars, is now working on a PC game in the walls of Amazon Game Studios.

Amazon Game Studios will release a survival simulator together with Human Head, the authors of the console game Prey.