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The corporation – which owns Streaming platform Twitch – is making big strides into video games, with “hundreds of millions of dollars” being invested in its own game creation, plus the new cloud platform codenamed Project Tempo, reports The New York Times.
Multiple outlets reported last year that Amazon would launch its Stadia rival in 2020, however according to NY Times’ sources Project Tempo could slip into next year amid coronavirus disruptions.
Tempo would rival Google’s recently launched Stadia, Nvidia’s Geforce Now and Project xCloud from Microsoft.
Amazon’s game development arm is said to be working on sandbox MMO New World, third-person survival shooter Crucible and “new unannounced projects”.
Mike Frazzini, Amazon’s vice president for game services and studios:
We love this idea that you have a player, a streamer and a viewer all sharing in this synchronous interactive environment of Twitch. It was very clear to everyone that people, customers, love video games. It was so obviously important to customers that we need to be doing something. The big picture is about trying to take the best of Amazon and bringing it to games. We have been working for a while, but it takes a long time to make games, and we’re bringing a lot of Amazon practices to making games.
Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play (Published 2020)
The internet giant is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the effort, with its first original game, Crucible, to be released next month.
www.nytimes.com
Amazon is reportedly ‘investing hundreds of millions’ in game projects, including Stadia rival | VGC
Plus ‘interactive games’ coming to Twitch…
www.videogameschronicle.com