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Less than half a year after its launch -- and three months after its un-launch and removal to closed beta -- Amazon Game Studios has announced that it is pulling the plug on Crucible.

Crucible launched into early access -- or "pre-season" as Amazon Games Studios is calling it -- just last week and its reviews have been mixed.

The servers for Amazon Game Studios and Relentless Studios' Crucible are now live, but you can only access them if you've secured a key for a three-hour early access window.

When you announce a launch date for your game just two weeks out, having done virtually zero PR for it, you need to churn out the info in a hurry.

We got a glimpse of Crucible's hunters in the announce video from last week, but there was precious little that actually described them -- either in terms of personality or in-game ability.

Last month, we got word that the date the release of Crucible, Amazon Game Studios' free-to-play shooter, would fall in May.