Amazon Games is laying off 180 employees, primarily focusing on its Prime-related offerings. The entire team from Crown Channel, an Amazon-backed channel on Amazon-owned Twitch, has been let go, and the news adds to a miserable pile of layoffs across the gaming and tech industries in 2023: Amazon itself made 100 job cuts in April.
The news was first reported by Reuters, and also affects Amazon's "Game Growth" initiative, which focused on helping publishers promote their titles and is being closed, although it's still advertising eight open positions at the time of writing.
