{"id":119138,"date":"2020-10-10T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/371683"},"modified":"2020-10-10T01:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T01:16:00","slug":"amazon-cancels-free-to-play-shooter-crucible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/10\/amazon-cancels-free-to-play-shooter-crucible\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cancels free-to-play shooter Crucible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development team behind <em>Crucible<\/em>, Amazon Game Studios\u2019 effort to break into the free-to-play multiplayer shooter genre, announced Friday evening&nbsp;it would halt development of the game after years of work.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has been attempting a push into video game development with limited success thus far and <em>Crucible<\/em>\u2019s cancellation is another setback for the company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ll be discontinuing development on Crucible,\u201d the dev team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.playcrucible.com\/en-us\/news\/articles\/final-crucible-developer-update\">said in a blog post<\/a>. \u201c\u2026Ultimately we didn\u2019t see a healthy, sustainable future ahead of Crucible. We\u2019ll be transitioning our team to focus on [the MMO] <em>New World<\/em> and other upcoming projects from Amazon Games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last known Amazon Game Studios cancellation <a href=\"https:\/\/gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316021\/Amazons_Lumberyardpowered_brawler_Breakaway_is_no_more.php\">was the brawler <em>Breakaway<\/em><\/a> in 2018. The company dropped major news at the end of September this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/370795\/Amazon_is_muscling_into_cloud_gaming_with_Luna.php\">announcing Luna<\/a>, Amazon\u2019s cloud gaming platform that will compete with Microsoft\u2019s xCloud and Google Stadia.<\/p>\n<p><em>Crucible <\/em>launched in May this year and the following month, Amazon moved the game back into closed beta, essentially undoing the launch.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it would be refunding all purchases made. Servers for custom games will close down noon PST on November 9 following a final playtest and community celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development team behind Crucible, Amazon Game Studios\u2019 effort to break into the free-to-play multiplayer shooter genre, announced Friday evening&nbsp;it would halt development of the game after years of work. Amazon has been attempting a push into video game development with limited success thus far and Crucible\u2019s cancellation is another setback for the company. \u201cWe\u2019ll [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}