{"id":27511,"date":"2023-04-05T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/amazon-laying-off-100-employees-from-video-games-division\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T15:59:12","slug":"amazon-laying-off-100-employees-from-video-games-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xtremeservers.com\/blog\/amazon-laying-off-100-employees-from-video-games-division\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon laying off 100 employees from video games division"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\nJust over 100 people have lost their jobs at Amazon&#8217;s video games division as part of the massive job culls announced a couple of weeks ago.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/twitch-lays-off-400-employees-as-part-of-latest-amazon-cuts\">Over 400 Twitch employees lost their jobs<\/a> in late March, with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy blaming the &#8220;current macroeconomic environment&#8221; for the layoffs.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe further 100 employees who are being laid off are a part of Game Growth, Amazon Game&#8217;s San Diego studio, and Prime Gaming, according to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/04\/04\/amazon-lays-off-some-employees-in-its-video-games-unit-read-the-memo.html\">internal memo obtained by CNBC<\/a>. The memo was written by vice president of Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/amazon-laying-off-100-employees-from-video-games-division\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source &#8211; eurogamer.net<\/p>\n<p>All content and images belong to their respected owners. This article is aggregated for informational purposes only with full credit to the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over 100 people have lost their jobs at Amazon&#8217;s video games division as part of the massive job culls announced a couple of weeks ago. Over 400 Twitch employees lost their jobs in late March, with Twitch CEO Dan Clancy blaming the &#8220;current macroeconomic environment&#8221; for the layoffs. 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