10-14-2020, 02:50 AM
Amazon cancels free-to-play shooter Crucible
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/amazon-cancels-free-to-play-shooter-crucible.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The development team behind <em>Crucible</em>, Amazon Game Studios’ effort to break into the free-to-play multiplayer shooter genre, announced Friday evening it would halt development of the game after years of work.</p>
<p>Amazon has been attempting a push into video game development with limited success thus far and <em>Crucible</em>’s cancellation is another setback for the company.</p>
<p>“We’ll be discontinuing development on Crucible,” the dev team <a href="https://www.playcrucible.com/en-us/news/articles/final-crucible-developer-update">said in a blog post</a>. “…Ultimately we didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible. We’ll be transitioning our team to focus on [the MMO] <em>New World</em> and other upcoming projects from Amazon Games.”</p>
<p>The last known Amazon Game Studios cancellation <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/316021/Amazons_Lumberyardpowered_brawler_Breakaway_is_no_more.php">was the brawler <em>Breakaway</em></a> in 2018. The company dropped major news at the end of September this year <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/370795/Amazon_is_muscling_into_cloud_gaming_with_Luna.php">announcing Luna</a>, Amazon’s cloud gaming platform that will compete with Microsoft’s xCloud and Google Stadia.</p>
<p><em>Crucible </em>launched in May this year and the following month, Amazon moved the game back into closed beta, essentially undoing the launch.</p>
<p>The company said it would be refunding all purchases made. Servers for custom games will close down noon PST on November 9 following a final playtest and community celebration.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/10/...-crucible/
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/amazon-cancels-free-to-play-shooter-crucible.jpg" width="300" height="300" title="" alt="" /></div><div><p>The development team behind <em>Crucible</em>, Amazon Game Studios’ effort to break into the free-to-play multiplayer shooter genre, announced Friday evening it would halt development of the game after years of work.</p>
<p>Amazon has been attempting a push into video game development with limited success thus far and <em>Crucible</em>’s cancellation is another setback for the company.</p>
<p>“We’ll be discontinuing development on Crucible,” the dev team <a href="https://www.playcrucible.com/en-us/news/articles/final-crucible-developer-update">said in a blog post</a>. “…Ultimately we didn’t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible. We’ll be transitioning our team to focus on [the MMO] <em>New World</em> and other upcoming projects from Amazon Games.”</p>
<p>The last known Amazon Game Studios cancellation <a href="https://gamasutra.com/view/news/316021/Amazons_Lumberyardpowered_brawler_Breakaway_is_no_more.php">was the brawler <em>Breakaway</em></a> in 2018. The company dropped major news at the end of September this year <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/370795/Amazon_is_muscling_into_cloud_gaming_with_Luna.php">announcing Luna</a>, Amazon’s cloud gaming platform that will compete with Microsoft’s xCloud and Google Stadia.</p>
<p><em>Crucible </em>launched in May this year and the following month, Amazon moved the game back into closed beta, essentially undoing the launch.</p>
<p>The company said it would be refunding all purchases made. Servers for custom games will close down noon PST on November 9 following a final playtest and community celebration.</p>
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https://www.sickgaming.net/blog/2020/10/...-crucible/