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Amazon.com Inc. ended development of its first big-budget video game Crucible, highlighting the online retailer’s continued struggle to make headway in the industry.
“We didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible,†the company said in a blog post. The team working on the project will be moved to other upcoming games and customers will get refunds, it added. Crucible was seen as a key test for Amazon’s games division, which was formed
in 2012.
The game’s launch in May was a disaster, with negative reviews. A month later, Amazon made the game an invite-only closed beta. Before releasing Crucible, the company had already cancelled a previously announced game and cut some jobs in the games unit.
The Crucible development team will now focus on another original game called New World. Amazon earlier this year said it would release New World in August, but later pushed back the release to spring 2021.