Mike Frazzini, vice president of Amazon Games.
Mike Frazzini, vice president of Amazon Games.
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Amazon Games head Mike Frazzini steps down

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Mike Frazzini, head of Amazon Games, has stepped down from the top games role to pursue personal interests and spend time with his family.

Frazzini had spent 13 years in games and 18 years at Amazon. He oversaw a number of failures during that time, but he said he was proud to have launched two top-ten games in the past six months, as the massively multiplayer online games New World and Lost Ark have both been well received.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.