Amazon Games Studios Signs Publishing Agreement With Smilegate RPG

Uskompuf · Aug 24, 2020

Amazon Games today announced it has reached an exclusive publishing agreement for North America and Europe with Korean developer Smilegate RPG. They will collaborate to publish a game releasing next year, with specific details to be revealed at a later date. Founded in 2002, Smilegate (parent company of Smilegate RPG) is the creator of CROSSFIRE and the Lost Ark MMORPG. CROSSFIRE is the world's largest first-person online shooter game and one of the most played online games in the world, with over 670 million registered users and more than 8 million concurrent players globally.

The Amazon Games leadership team includes veteran developers and publishing executives who helped deliver some of the world's most popular games. In addition to its publishing agreement with Smilegate RPG, Amazon Games is internally developing New World, the massively multiplayer online PC game releasing in Spring 2021, online multiplayer shooter Crucible, an original AAA online game based on the literary works of The Lord of the Rings, and several unannounced projects.

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Vayra86 · Aug 24, 2020

Maybe its me, but I don't trust any online business model coming from Amazon for games at all.

This push is weird and they're supposed to deliver packages. Stick to your core business. Bezos' filthy tentacles simply go everywhere he sees money.

FreedomEclipse · Aug 24, 2020

Well, since Amazon's own game was a colossal failure. This might be the best move for them. They just sell the product and leave the coding to people that know what they are doing

dj-electric · Aug 24, 2020

Can't wait for people to see how over-rated Lost Ark is once their honeymoon with the game is over.

Teiji · Aug 24, 2020

dj-electric said:
Can't wait for people to see how over-rated Lost Ark is once their honeymoon with the game is over.

Care to explain? I haven't played the game but from Youtube trailers, the graphic & combat looks friggen awesome.

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Amazon Games Studios Signs Publishing Agreement With Smilegate RPG

Uskompuf

Vayra86

FreedomEclipse

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dj-electric

Teiji