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Message: [QUOTE="Queen, post: 85656, member: 27"] Amazon guts staff again, gaming leadership exits, and the company keeps drifting from making games toward cloud-first bets. Amazon layoffs keep stacking up [LIST] [*]Amazon confirms another round cutting over 16,000 roles. [*]Previous cuts already slammed multiple divisions. [*]This wave targets core corporate operations. [*]Artificial intelligence efficiency is cited internally. [/LIST] Amazon Game Studios fallout [LIST] [*]Amazon Game Studios lost its top executive. [*]Christoph Hartmann exited during restructuring. [*]His departure reads as voluntary, not forced. [*]No public statement from Hartmann yet. [/LIST] Studios already hit before [LIST] [*]Amazon shut down New World Aeternum. [*]A Lord of the Rings MMO got scrapped. [*]Earlier layoffs hit Amazon Game Studios hard. [*]Morale around internal development took a blow. [/LIST] Divisions affected this time [LIST] [*]Amazon Web Services faces reductions. [*]Retail operations lose headcount. [*]Prime Video roles are cut. [*]Human resources teams shrink. [/LIST] Strategic shift signals [LIST] [*]Jason Schreier flagged the change publicly. [*]Amazon pivots from PC and console publishing. [*]Cloud services gain priority internally. [*]Amazon Luna becomes central. [/LIST] Hartmann’s industry background [LIST] [*]He joined Amazon in 2018. [*]He previously founded 2K Games. [*]His hire once signaled big ambitions. [*]That vision appears abandoned. [/LIST] Cloud gaming focus [LIST] [*]Amazon refreshed its cloud platform. [*]The company framed it as a relaunch. [*]AI-driven titles were highlighted. [*]Third-party games like Hogwarts Legacy and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 were promoted. [/LIST] [/QUOTE]

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