Amazon’s cloud gaming service could arrive next year and offer Twitch integration

mood · Nov 20, 2019

Amazon’s cloud gaming service could arrive next year and offer Twitch integration
2020 is shaping up to be a big year for cloud gaming
November 20, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/20...ng-2020-twitch-google-stadia-microsoft-xcloud

[...] we’re already hearing more about Amazon’s rumored entry into the space. CNET reports that Amazon is planning to announce its own cloud gaming service next year. CNET’s story corroborates a January report from The Information, which first revealed the existence of the service and said that it likely wouldn’t launch until 2020 at the earliest.

The Verge found a job listing that’s up right now for a “Principal Product Leader” for a “New AWS Gaming Initiative.” The listing doesn’t reveal any details about what the service might look like, but it does contain, uh, a pretty bold statement about Amazon’s gaming ambitions [...]
After The Information’s original report in January, The Verge previously found two job listings for engineers that would work on “Cloud Games,” including one listing that explicitly mentioned some kind of new games business.

AWS already powers much of the internet (including huge games like Fortnite), which means Amazon already has a massive amount of infrastructure and streaming know-how at its disposal that it could use to try to make a reliable cloud gaming service.
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2020 is shaping up to be a big year for cloud gaming, and Amazon could be one of the big players.
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mood · Apr 3, 2020 at 5:44 AM

Amazon is developing its own cloud gaming platform dubbed Project Tempo
April 3, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/amazon-is-developing-its-own-cloud-gaming-platform-dubbed-project-tempo

Amazon appears to be making huge investments in gaming with a planned cloud-based gaming platform and two original game titles set for release next month. According to a new report from The New York Times, the company is working on a Google Stadia rival code-named Project Tempo.

Amazon also plans to release two big-budget games in May, targeted at hardcore gamers.
Its first original title is called Crucible, [...] Another game that's set for rollout next month is New World, [...]
Regarding Amazon's push into gaming, Mike Frazzini, Amazon’s vice president for game services and studios, said:

"The big picture is about trying to take the best of Amazon and bringing it to games. 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.”
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The upcoming games are part of Amazon's investments in video gaming worth hundreds of millions of dollars. After releasing the two titles in May, the online retail giant also plans to launch interactive games on Twitch in the summer.
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Amazon Pushes Into Making Video Games, Not Just Streaming Their Play

If Crucible and New World succeed, Amazon will not only build a consumer games business but also show the potential of its technology tools.
Mr. Frazzini, Amazon’s game chief, transferred from the company’s book division to its retail game segment in 2009. He quickly spotted an opportunity for Amazon to start marketing cloud computing services to game developers and begin the journey toward making top-end games of its own.

“It was very clear to everyone that people, customers, love video games,” he said. “It was so obviously important to customers that we need to be doing something.”

Game executives and analysts have suspected that Amazon was working on its own cloud gaming service; people close to Project Tempo said that the company had hoped to introduce an early version this year but that it could slip into 2021 amid coronavirus disruptions.
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