The steady growth of the gaming industry has attracted a large number of companies to enter. Among them is Amazon. The company had the success of New World and is about to release a new Tomb Raider game. Amazon's internal studios are developing multiple games across a variety of game genres. One of them is MOBA games. Amazon Montreal is developing a new MOBA game, according to exposed job ads.
Amazon Montreal is a relatively new studio, only established in March 2021, and is led by industry veterans who have developed the online game Rainbow Six Siege. The current MOBA games are dominated by "League of Legends" and "DOTA2". These games attract millions of players to play every day. As a new player, Amazon naturally wants to take a piece of this lucrative market.
Amazon hopes to inject new vitality into the MOBA genre through innovation, and other requests also mentioned Epic's Unreal Engine. Considering that Unreal 5 engine is gradually becoming the industry engine standard, Amazon Montreal is likely to use Unreal 5 to develop this new MOBA work.
In addition, the job ad also features an AI developer position, which mentions the use of AI enemies or companions. DOTA2 and League of Legends also support fighting against robot AI.
Amazon has developed a free online shooting game "Crucible" with MOBA elements. But the game was unsuccessful and was quickly discontinued. However, Amazon seems hopeful about another foray into the genre, tapping its recently launched Montreal studio to lead development. Whether Amazon can break into this type of gaming remains to be seen.
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