Amazon gets out of the MMO game
Soon, Amazon won’t be involved with Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark.
by Jay Peters
Aug 12, 2026, 4:46 PM UTC
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Jay Peters is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.
Amazon is fully stepping back from MMOs. After saying last year that it would be halting “a significant amount” of its work on first-party AAA games, “specifically around MMOs,” Amazon will be handing over live operations of Throne and Liberty and Lost Ark in the West to other companies, according to announcements on Wednesday. Throne and Liberty will be taken over by FirstSpark Games and NC in Q4 2026. Lost Ark will be run by Smilegate starting in early 2027.
When Amazon announced the broader strategy shift in October, the developers of a third MMO, New World: Aeternum, announced plans to...
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