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If you're planning to play a lot of Lost Ark -- I'm looking at you, Zach Sharpes -- and also create a bunch of content about it -- I'm still looking at you, Zach!...

Amazon's not letting the failures of Crucible and Breakaway discourage it from continuing to make video games.

It's that time again!...

Last year, I wrote that 2019 was a year of potential, if not immediate impact.

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.

One of the Crucible's most-requested features is finally live.

Crucible Team Lead Colin Johanson started off today's developer blog video by acknowledging that there's been a "great response to the premise and promise of Crucible" but also a lot of "feedback that the game needs more work ...

Everyone's favorite pellet-chomper is turning 40, and in honor of the big day Amazon Games announced "Pac-Man Live Studio".

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.

As the saying goes, you don't get a second chance to make a first impression.

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.

Back in 2016, Amazon Game Studios announced that it was working on three new online games: Breakaway, New World, and Crucible.

A few weeks ago, we learned that Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had left ArenaNet back in November -- a fact that was unknown to the general public for several months.

Last year, we learned about Athlon Games, a division of Leyou Technologies, that was formed primarily to work on a new "free-to-play massively multiplayer online video game based on The Lord of the Rings." Today, news came dow...

When last we heard about Amazon Game Studios' arena battler Breakaway, it was effectively put on hiatus to let the dev team "take the time to iterate and evolve Breakaway’s core gameplay." Like pushing B in a Pokemon game, t...

What a wild and wacky 2017 it's been!...

UPDATE: Amazon Game Studios has posted a message for players on the home page for Breakaway.

Today, Amazon Game Studios announced that former Need for Speed Creative Lead Craig Sullivan has joined the AGS team.

19 months after leaving Daybreak Game Company and just a month after shuttering the doors of his indie startup Pixelmage Games, John Smedley has found new employment. Smedley will head up the San Diego office of Amazon Game...

It's not totally official, but all signs (and Facebook ads) point to Amazon Game Studios' Breakaway being a free-to-play game.

UPDATE: Zach Sharpes got this ad to pop up on Facebook yesterday: And Magicman says there was a section on the Amazon website that also labeled the game as a "free sports brawler," thought that section is now gone.