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Amazon Game Studios boss Christoph Hartmann is exiting his post as the tech giant shakes up its overall gaming strategy, Variety has learned. 2K veteran Hartmann leaves amid Amazon’s choice to pivot away from its AAA PC and console game development and focus on party games and third-party titles for its cloud gaming service,
The layoffs mark the second round of mass cuts at Amazon since last October, when the company laid off roughly 14,000 employees across its corporate workforce.
Amazon.com Inc. is shuttering its Amazon-branded grocery stores and automated grab-and-go markets, eliminating two centerpieces of its push into physical retail.
Amazon said on Wednesday it was cutting 16,000 jobs worldwide in the second major round of layoffs at the company in three months, as it restructures after pandemic-era over-hiring
In a message to staff, Amazon Senior Vice President Beth Galetti said the layoffs are aimed at "reducing layers, increasing ownership and removing bureaucracy."