Amazon Game Studio Cancelling Project

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Remember in 2014 when Amazon purchased Double Helix Games to start developing it's own content? Since then, the company has been developing 3 games under the Amazon Game Studio umbrella, in hopes of cracking into the industry. In 2016 we got a glimpse of Breakaway, a mythological sports brawler that was meant to integrate into Twitch, which Amazon owns, to provide a more real-time user/viewer experience. The art looked fine and the activity that we saw within the game had potential.

Unfortunately over the weekend, the development team announced that work on the game was ending, and the group will focus on new projects. Breakaway wasn't the breakout that they were hoping for. No reasons for given other than the developers felt they weren't reaching their personal goals for the game. There is no news of if people will be let go or what will happen to the source code for the project. Maybe they will pick it back up again in a few years? The announcement was too quiet, and too subtle that maybe the studio would rather it be forgotten?

It's a quiet end to a game that had the potential to do something different, particularly with Twitch. Hopefully the developers come up with an equally interesting idea to spread to the masses.

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