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Connor Makar @ Eurogamer.net · 05/14/2026 05:55 EDT

Amazon pressured one of its teams to develop an AI game, they scrambled to make it work - then got laid off anyway

In October 2025, developers at Amazon Game Studios found out they had lost their jobs. They were far from alone; since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic, an unrelenting assault of layoffs has carved up many studios across the world. The reasons for that remain contested, from a sudden correction after the explosive growth of the pandemic, to ever-greater competition for eyeballs from the attention economy, or the simple lack of 'growth narrative', leading to crucial investors taking their money elsewhere. Re

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