[STEAM] Amazon steps back from AAA development (and towards AI) amid a massive round of job cuts

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In a mass culling of jobs,

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is set to reduce staff by around 14,000 in the very near future, and its gaming departments have not been spared, with the company stating that they "have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work."

This comes days after the company launched its Luna gaming service, which offers members free PC games each month. Steve *****, vice president of Audio,

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, and Games, added that they will be "making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team.”

This could very well mean that the upcoming Lord of the Rings MMO, currently in development, may never grace our screens. This is also after the relatively successful launches of New World Aeternum and Throne and Liberty, both of which now hold only a fraction of their peak player base on Steam.

It's unclear at this point what this might mean for the future of these established games and how they'll be impacted by the layoffs, but we can more than likely expect far less future content.

It's also unclear what will become of the Tomb Raider game in development at

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What is clear is that in a

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, they posted an update on these events. And yes, you guessed it, AI was mentioned. How big a role AI will play in

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's future game development is unclear, but it definitely has a place at

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, judging from the blog post.

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