While Amazon has struggled a bit on the game development side, the company has been much more successful in publishing. Amazon Games has already had one hugely successful publishing deal with Lost Ark and in the future, it will also publish Tomb Raider in collaboration with Crystal Dynamics. Now, Amazon is also teaming up with the MMO specialists at NCSoft to publish their next game.
Amazon and NCSoft today announced that Amazon Games will be publishing upcoming MMO Throne and Liberty in North & South America, Europe and Japan. Amazon will pick up publishing duties for all major platforms, including PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. The game will also support cross-platform play.
Throne and Liberty is set in a vast world with constantly shifting geographical and environmental features that change the course of play. Massive-scale PvP and PvE combat are fundamental to the game. Players can transform into animals to soar through the air or explore the depths of the sea, and even tip the odds of battle in their favour by triggering powerful environmental effects, like solar eclipses or rainstorms.
Aside from NCSoft, Amazon has also announced publishing agreements with Bandai Namco Online for Blue Protocol, Crystal Dynamics for the next major Tomb Raider game, and Glowmade and Disruptive Games for unannounced titles.
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KitGuru Says: Amazon is gaining a good amount of traction in publishing. There are quite a few projects lined up now, but we imagine there'll be a couple more announced before the year comes to an end.