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Fallout Shelter's daily revenue rockets to $80,000 after TV show debut
Sensor Tower data also shows that downloads rose more than doubled around launch of Amazon Prime show
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Where to get illegally pirated games | This Week in Business
A look at who is allowed to profit off counterfeit games and how the industry goes after everyone else
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Amazon reduces games division by 180
VP Christoph Hartmann attributed the decision to refining prime benefits to offering customers free games
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Twitch makes another round of layoffs
Latest cuts limited to customer support as streaming service relies more on outsourcing
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Microsoft's concerning conflict minerals disclosure reflects industry-wide slippage
Our annual report finds industry efforts to avoid funding human rights abuses worsening almost across the board
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Amazon's second attempt at making one MMO to rule them all
Christoph Hartmann shares Amazon Games' ambitions for its new Lord of the Rings project, and how it will compete with its long-established rival
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Amazon and Embracer partner for new Lord of the Rings MMO
Amazon Games' Christoph Hartmann tells us team aims to make "the largest MMO out there"
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Amazon lays off nearly 100 staffers from its gaming divisions
The redundancies come weeks after the firm laid off more than 400 employees from Twitch
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Amazon Luna launches in the UK, Germany and Canada
Ubisoft+ support also available to UK subscribers from today as Amazon's cloud gaming service expands
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Amazon to cut 9000 roles
Update: Over 400 Twitch staff laid off as user and revenue growth fail to meet expectations due to "current macroeconomic environment"
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Twitch exec addresses backlash over revenue split change
Chief monetisation officer says Amazon ownership is irrelevant because Twitch is expected to be "a sustainable, viable, long-term business"
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Lost Ark passes 20m players
Amazon and Smilegate's RPG also reached 1.32 million concurrent users at its peak, the second highest in Steam's history
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Amazon pens deal with dj2 Entertainment
The transmedia company behind 2020's Sonic the Hedgehog film is set to create exclusive content for Prime Video service
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Amazon could be Valve's only serious challenger | Opinion
With Twitch as its springboard, leaked Steam competitor Vapor could be the biggest disruption to the PC market in decades
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Amazon Games drops guidelines that laid claim to employees' personal projects
Old rules also requested that games be made only using company tools, and distributed via the firm's store
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Amazon's New World beta sees over 200,000 players
Upcoming MMO becomes one of the most played games on Steam this past weekend
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What do Stadia's struggles mean for game streaming?
With Google's closure of Stadia Games and Entertainment, other players in the game streaming space explain why they're still optimistic
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Marc Whitten swaps Amazon for Unity
Former Xbox exec left Amazon five months after rolling out the Luna streaming service
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Amazon opens Luna early access to new users
More Fire TV owners can now access the could gaming service, and purchasing the Luna Controller is no longer by invitation
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Next CEO believes Amazon can succeed in games "if we hang in there"
Andy Jassy expresses support for internet giant's struggling games division
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos stepping down
He will be replaced by AWS CEO Andy Jassy in Q3 2021 and become executive chair for online giant's board of directors
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Amazon is reportedly spending nearly $500 million a year on its video game division
Bloomberg examines Amazon's internal struggles to get its game division off the ground
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Amazon's 2020 gaming best-sellers again led by gift cards, Switch games
In fact, much of the top-sellers list looks near-identical to the 2019 listing
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Some Amazon Xbox Series X pre-orders may not arrive until December
Update: A Microsoft spokesperson said the company is "working tirelessly with retail partners to replenish Xbox hardware as quickly as possible"
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Amazon patents method of grouping toxic players together online
Patent filing suggests gamers would be able to specify preferences for the behaviours they would accept