Amazon.com Inc. launched Amazon Game Studios, its first major foray into video game development, along with “Living Classics,” a social game for Facebook.
The Seattle company announced the news this week in an email and on its website.
“Amazon Game Studios is exactly what it sounds like: a new team at Amazon that’s focused on creating innovative, fun and well-crafted games,” the company said online. “Our first title, ‘Living Classics,’ is debuting on Facebook today.”
Amazon did not give out much information about the new game studio, besides that it is hiring.
It describes “Living Classics” as its first social game.
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