Amazon has found a way to circumvent the rules and the App Store commission. The company has released the Luna cloud gaming service in the form of PWA, a progressive web application. This means that the service will not appear in the store at all — a browser is enough for it to work.

Information that Amazon is preparing its own service for “playing in the cloud” appeared back in 2019. Now it has come to the announcement. At an event dedicated to hardware, Amazon announced the launch of the Luna service.

Amazon has renamed its gaming service Prime Gaming, which 150 million Amazon Prime subscription holders can now use for free. Thus, the company plans to significantly expand the audience, as well as provide a number of advantages to developers.The Twitch Prime project, launched by Amazon in 2016, provided users with free games, in-game items (skins, weapons, etc.) and subscriptions to Twitch.

Zynga has introduced a new type of monetization in Words With Friends. A link to the Amazon Prime service has appeared in the word game. His subscribers will be offered free exclusive rewards in the title.

Amazon has big plans for gamedev. The giant’s game studios are ready to release a number of projects in the near future. The New York Times told more about them and about Amazon’s own cloud service.

The network started talking about a possible port of Overwatch on the Nintendo Switch. Rumors started after a product leak on Amazon — a branded console case with the Blizzard game logo.

Wargaming has announced the development of a new project. According to the company, it will be a “new generation” MMO shooter.

A serious struggle broke out around the South Korean publisher Nexon. Electronic Arts, Amazon and Comcast joined it, as VentureBeat became known.

There have been reports that physical copies of the game are being removed from the shelves.

Amazon is working on a cloud service similar to Microsoft’s Project xCloud and Google’s Project Stream. GamesIndustry edition.biz reports that Amazon will launch the new product no earlier than 2020.

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

In his report, Mike Hines from Amazon shared examples that will help attract, retain and monetize players in the Amazon App Store.

A report by Mike Hines from Amazon. The speaker shared data shared with Newzoo and Twitch about who is playing, who is watching, and who is paying now in the eSports field.

The online capabilities of most of the largest gaming companies depend on Amazon. According to representatives of the corporation, 90% of the leaders of the gaming industry use the infrastructure of Amazon Web Services cloud servers. Amazon’s customers include such giants as Activision, Supercell and Ubisoft.

Amazon has introduced the cross-platform gaming service GameOn. It allows developers to embed competitive multiplayer into titles and assign both in-game and material prizes for winning virtual tournaments.

The GameSparks gaming platform has officially confirmed its transition to Amazon ownership, writing about it in its blog. Rumors about the purchase of GameSparks by the American Internet corporation have been going around since July last year.

A report by Mike Hines from Amazon. The speaker told about everything you need to know: from creating an account on Amazon and devices to features.

Amazon Internet Corporation has launched the Amazon Sumerian platform for creating three-dimensional applications for VR and AR devices.

Those developers who don’t have money for voice acting or even a microphone may need to take a closer look at Amazon’s new solution. The company has introduced a speech synthesizer for voicing video games.