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Industry veteran John Smedley has been appointed to run Amazon Games’ brand new studio in San Diego – the third one in the US for the retail giant. The EverQuest creator has run Sony Online Entertainment (then renamed Daybreak Game Company when Sony sold the company to Columbus Nova) for …
Read More »Amazon hire John Smedley to head up new San Diego studio
Smedley working on new title to take advantage of AWS Cloud and Twitch
Read More »Nintendo Switch already sold out on Amazon and GameStop
It only took a couple of days, but the first Nintendo Switch allocation has already dried out at some retailers. Both Amazon UK and US websites had sold out as soon as Friday, only a day after Nintendo’s big reveal. In the US, GameStop also announced yesterday that it has …
Read More »Amazon boasts of record Black Friday sales for its Fire and Echo devices
The own-brand devices of the internet’s largest retailer had a bumper Black Friday weekend. Amazon has said that sales of the Amazon Fire TV were two and a half times larger than they were last year, helped in part no doubt by the big discounts. The device is still the …
Read More »Amazon ordered to repay in-app purchases
A Seattle judge has ruled that Amazon must repay in-app purchases made without consent on Kindle and Android devices between 2011 and 2014. The decision is a result of a successful FTC lawsuit, although its calls for a lump sum refund of over $25m was rejected for being ‘too high’. …
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard Beta 1.6 introduces Twitch MetaStream
Promises deep Twitch integration with a host of overlays, graphs and features for streamers
Read More »Amazon Lumberyard opens new Austin studio
Studio located with new Twitch team, looking to hire local game development talent
Read More »Some physical versions of Mafia III on PC are missing activation codes
Some of the Mafia III Deluxe Editions on PC are missing an activation code, meaning people are not able to play the game. In the Deluxe Edition the game comes as a physical disk, or six, to install it to your PC. However a code is required to activate the …
Read More »Amazon: ‘It’s been a challenging year for games retail’
Few retailers claim as large an audience as Amazon. In total, the UK arm of the retail giant generated a massive 6.3bn in 2015 with research outlet Kantar Worldpanel saying that Amazon has a 22 per cent share of the entertainment market – the largest for this sector. But, speaking …
Read More »Amazon Game Studio’s debut titles revealed
Breakaway, Crucible and New World are the bring Amazon into eSports, shooter and MMO spaces
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