According to The New York Times, Amazon is investing hundreds of millions into gaming. The first original big-budget game is planned to be released this May. The game is called Crucible, and it is a 12-player, class-based science-fiction game in which players form alliances to become the last man standing.
“The big picture is about trying to take the best of Amazon and bringing it to games”. Mike Frazzini, Amazon’s vice president for game services and studios.
Amazon is also developing a cloud gaming platform with the name Project Tempo. Meaning other cloud gaming platforms like Stadia, will now have a new rival. Project Tempo will probably work along with their upcoming games, Crucible and New World.
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”. Mike Frazzini.
New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing title, which is also scheduled to be released next month. The game is set in the mid-1600s, and players colonize a fictional land modeled after British America in the Atlantic Ocean.
A third game is being developed by Irvine studio, which is based on the Lord of the Rings franchise. Not really surprising since Amazon bought the rights a while back. This will also be a massively multiplayer online game.
Thanks New York Times.
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My god, The future looks really dark for videogames.
yeah, always online streaming systems with microtransactions.
I’m not worried; my backlog is going to outlive me easily.
investing pennies in trash is more like it.
Glad to see someone with a different yet realistic opinion about MS Gamepass, this is really dangerous, at least Cloud Gaming is hated by the majority of gamers for now, but it seems like everyone loves Gamepass…
Don’t care unless they are investing those Millions in making Single-Player Only games.
Wow !! There are people downvoting this, literally asking for Online games… On the Cloud !! Everything’s alright !!
Yeah, not everyone likes single player games.
There are TONS of MP games, actually it’s suffocating, in both market share and game design, MP needs a pause rather then more games
Lol you 9yo fartnite basement kid… you don’t even know that 2 MP games out of 3 are dying in the first year ? The market is flooded of trash low quality, narrow minded, MP games!
I only play single player games. I would like to see more games being developed solely for single player so that all of the development resources of a game would go to SP or at least more games coming out that had a SP component but I just don’t see it happening.
I think a lot of publishers aren’t looking so much at the quick failure rate as the incredible success of some online games like League of Legends and Fortnite which have generated billions dollars in revenue from microtransactions.
Then you look at COD Black Ops 4 which generated 500 million dollars in sales in it’s first 3 days on release.
For now SP games are on the back burner unfortunately.
lol i’m sure i’m older than you as I’m in my 40’s and lived through the time when single player games where good, the 90s/early 2000’s, now they are just “cinematic experiences” with shoddy AI.
Personally I don’t care for single player games (fine there is good one every few years) and 90% of my playtime is MP games.
the market is flooded with low quality narrow mind games both SP and MP.
For a lot of people MP is all they play or care about. Take Fortnite for example. Epic claims that Fortnite has 250 million accounts. Mostly kids I think.
“Mostly kids I think”
No doubt about it, and i don’t think it has 250m “active” players, and Epic are compulsive liars, i don’t believe their numbers at all
Cool that they can invest MILLIONS into video games, but fail miserably into investing into saving humanity from DEATH during the COVID-19 PANDEMIC. Jeff Bezos is an a**hole.
I agree 100% bro. Jeff Bezos is a complete trash. He can burn in hell for eternity
Yo that’s what I’m saying. Now is the time for some multi-multi-billionares to stand up. Wtf, how heartless can a human be?
Is really the best use of “cloud” or computers in general? Computers that could be use to solve every day problems like finding cures for viruses are being wasted for people to play games, sh*t, entertainment will be the death of our culture
“…it is a 12-player, class-based science-fiction game…”
At least it’s sure to stand out with such an original concept……
I knew it then, and I’m sure of it now. The worst thing to happen to gaming, was “graphics”, making it appealing to the lowest form of intelligence on this planet.
When the morons of the world could be enticed with “pretty graphics” of the PS1 and PS2 era, it was over. Everyone knows that once something goes mainstream, it gets ruined by the greed that is instantly associated with it.
Once gaming became “popular”, it was downhill from there. Buckle up, as it’s only going to get worse from here.
Frankly, I wish gaming would just die right now and resurrect itself like a decade later, with a huge, flaring punch in the guts.
Anyway, Jeff Bezos can die of Covid-19, it would be a good thing for everyone on earth.
Multiplayer, online… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6d8d5d228161d0ae63f74a19366433287a750ab58c1a6418a60f09da7c70993b.gif
Jeff Bezos can burn in hell, he’s a parasite of the worst specie, a cancer, a disease, a plague
so basically another jew.