Amazon Games moves to the cloud
For several months, Amazon has limited its investments in the video game sector, the fault of projects that no longer work. Whether it’s the oven King of Meat or the slow agony of New WorldAmazon Game Studios doesn’t have much left to save itself, except publishing projects like the next Tomb Raider games.
Jason Schreier now informs us that Amazon Game Studios will be changing direction, since his boss Christoph Hartmann has packed up. We still do not know the reasons for this departure, even if the Bloomberg journalist specifies that the ship is changing course by abandoning the PC and console games sector a little more to concentrate on cloud gaming via its Amazon Luna service.
Formerly at 2K, where he was president and co-founder, Hartmann joined Amazon Games in 2018 and had supervised numerous projects, many of which were failures. Now that the group is changing its vision and the parent company is eliminating positions with all its might, the person concerned may have been pushed towards the exit amicably, or understood that it was time to leave before being dislodged.
BREAKING: Amazon Game Studios boss Christoph Hartmann (formerly head of 2K) is leaving the company, Bloomberg News has learned, as Amazon continues its retreat from the PC and console video-game space in favor of its cloud gaming service Luna.
— Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier.bsky.social) 2026-01-28T17:41:15.844Z