Amazon Reportedly Forced Devs To Make A GenAI Game And Then Laid Them Off When It Wasn’t Working

Kotaku | 14.05.2026 20:30
It’s tough being a game developer, especially at Amazon Games Studios. A new report from Eurogamer outlines chaos, confusion, and dysfunction on one of the tech giant’s game development teams as it pivoted to a project based on generative AI game in a desperate attempt to save their jobs, only for Amazon to apparently can them anyway when it didn’t work out.