
Amazon has laid off around a hundred employees in the latest of a series of severe cuts taking place at the company, Bloomberg reports. The affected employees were all part of Amazon's gaming divisions, and were spread out across Prime Gaming, its San Diego games studio, and Game Growth.
Execs are trying to pitch this as a realignment rather than a cutback. Christoph Hartmann, VP of Amazon Games, told employees that the company's resources would be aligned to support its "focus on content," and that it would keep investing in its "internal development efforts". Hartmann even said that Amazon Games' teams would "continue to grow" as its projects moved forward.