In the wake of Amazon’s cuts to its games division, a former exec has explained how the company tried and failed to outdo Steam.

If you thought the massive web outage was the worst thing to happen to Amazon this month, you’d be mistaken, as the company has since gutted more than 14,000 employees.

This includes an unspecified number of roles in Amazon’s video games division, with MMO New World no longer receiving any content updates, just one month after its fourth anniversary.

Amazon’s been trying to crack into the gaming business for years now and, as it turns out, the company had high hopes of replacing Steam as the dominant gaming platform. Although they’ve done such a bad job of it, nobody even realised they were trying.

This is according to a LinkedIn post by Ethan Evans, former v

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