Amid sweeping layoffs that began throughout ecommerce giant Amazon Tuesday, the company is making "significant" changes to its video games business.

While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios,

Amazon is pulling away from key gaming projects as it prepares to eliminate over 14,000 jobs, but titles like Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider are safe.

On social media and elsewhere, impacted employees and others reacted to Amazon's decision to cut 14,000 corporate and tech workers across numerous divisions.

As Amazon Games winds down New World development, Lost Ark reassures players that it's working on December content and the 2026 roadmap.

It's been reported that Amazon has laid off thousands of employees, including the entire team behind New World.

Amazon is preparing to lay off several thousand staff members across the entire company, including significant cuts in its video game division.