Amazon reportedly had a studio pivot away from a game 'everyone was excited by' to make something with more AI stuffed in it, then laid them all off anyway

There are a lot of ways to get laid off in the games industry—make a good game, make a bad game, start making a game that isn't exciting. Start making a game that your boss actively loves and get told to jog on, anyway. Your boss wears a hat. You know, normal and healthy stuff.

One more grim red X—the kind you put on doors during a plague—painted on the games industry bingo card is a recent report from Eurogamer, who spoke to multiple sources at Amazon Games about the ill-fated Project Trident. Said sources asked to remain anonymous, but the picture they paint is deeply grim.

Initially, the report states, Project Trident was a Shadow...