Oh, and turns out New World, Amazon’s one reasonably-sized success in gaming, is shutting down in 2026, and development is ending imminently.
Oh, and turns out New World, Amazon’s one reasonably-sized success in gaming, is shutting down in 2026, and development is ending imminently.
Its’s complicated, but basically, Amazon also basically spun off Lumberyard into the fully open source, O3DE engine.
I am not sure if they still hold any particular rights to anything exclusive to Lumberyard, but yeah, O3DE is basically Lumberyard from some years back, that got handed over to a non profit, and has since been developed by that non profit for… 5 ish years? More?
The other wild thing is that… somehow, Cloud Imperium / Chris Roberts of Star Citizen… also got a version of Lumberyard/Crytek, or something like that?.. Before Amazon then later spun it off as O3DE.
So… the crytek engine has very weird family tree, at this point.