Amazon reportedly at work on game streaming platform


  • TECH
  • Monday, 14 Jan 2019

Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon's headquarters Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. Amazon, which is growing too big for its Seattle hometown, is spreading out to the East Coast. The online shopping giant ended its 14-month-long competition for a second headquarters Tuesday by selecting New York and Arlington, Va., as the joint winners. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

LOS ANGELES: Amazon is looking into joining the ranks of game streaming platforms like Microsoft and Google, according to reporting by The Information. 

Sources close to Amazon (”two people briefed on the plans”) state that the company is currently developing its own game streaming service and is in talks with publishers about distributing games on said platform. 

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