Amazon Game Studios Reveals Breakaway, New World & Crucible at TwitchCon 2022

Amazon'due south foray into the gaming market led to a lot of speculation. Years ago, several rumors pointed to a game panel possibly beingness worked on past the Seattle based giant, only those turned out to be simulated.

Instead, the company created Amazon Game Studios, recruiting talent left and right from large developers to create "community-driven PC games". A few hours ago, Amazon Game Studios finally pulled the hat on the first iii games nether development: Breakaway, New World and Crucible.

All of them are being developed with Amazon Lumberyard, as y'all would expect, and feature tight integrations with Amazon's Twitch as well every bit using Amazon Spider web Services. Mike Frazzini, Vice President of Amazon Games, said:

Watching and interacting with broadcasters and the communities on Twitch has inspired united states of america to think about games in a new way—to ask ourselves 'what would information technology look like to create a game with broadcasting and viewing in heed from the very outset?' Information technology's clear the experiences that fans have outside the game, from viewing and broadcasting to live events and esports, are huge sources of amusement. We've hired some of the best creators in the earth to build games that we hope will exist as fun to watch equally they are to play. We're excited to reveal a first await at our titles, and invite fans and broadcasters to share what they recall and join us in shaping the evolution of our games.

Breakaway is the game that seems further along, considered that y'all tin can already sign up for the blastoff and check out more information on the official website.

Breakaway is a 4v4 mythological sport brawler built for fast action, teamwork, and live-streaming. Players assemble a squad from an expanding roster of legendary warriors, including the relentless gladiator Spartacus, the twisted sorceress Morgan Le Fay, and the bloodthirsty warlord Vlad the Impaler. At the showtime of each circular, warriors tin can summon persistent buildables onto the playing field that dynamically change the game. Buildables can besiege foes, shield teammates, or create new pathways through the arena. Players fight for dominance across fabulous locations such as El Dorado, Atlantis, and Styx. They battle to control the Relic--the center of Breakaway's activity--passing it to teammates, defending it from attackers, and smashing information technology into an opponent'southward base of operations to score.

Breakaway is powered by Amazon Lumberyard and integrates directly with Twitch.Breakaway introduces four new means for the Twitch community to interact with broadcasters.Metastream allows streamers to customize their broadcasts with real-time stat overlays.Broadcaster Match Builder lets broadcasters invite their followers to join their matches.Broadcaster Spotlight adds to the excitement of streaming. It tells players when they're in a match that's existence broadcast, and lets them follow the broadcaster with a single click.Stream+ gives broadcasters new ways to interact with their viewers through polls, and by allowing viewers to wager loyalty points that are redeemable for in-game rewards.

Here's a look at ten minutes of gameplay.

The second game to be revealed was New World, which sounds like an interesting MMO game based in a unique setting: a version of 17th century colonial America where the supernatural is real.

New World is a massively multiplayer, open-concluded sandbox game that allows players to carve out their own destiny with other players in a living, cursed land. Players decide how to play, what to practice, and whom to piece of work with--or against--in an evolving globe that transforms with seasons, weather, and time of twenty-four hour period. Players tin can band together to repossess monster-haunted wilds and build thriving civilizations, or strike out alone, surviving in the face of supernatural terrors and murderous role player bandits. With emergent gameplay and rich social features, including deep Twitch integration with broadcaster-led events, achievements, and rewards, the merely limit in the New World is a role player's ambition.

The final game, Crucible, follows in the footsteps of the latest tendency in online games: concluding human being continuing way.

Crucible is a battle to the final survivor on a hostile, alien world. Players choose and customize heroes, making alliances and betraying allies on their path to victory. An additional thespian heightens the drama by triggering events, live-streaming the battles, and interacting with viewers.