Game art created with Amazon Lumberyard game engine.
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Amazon opens a new game engine team location in Austin

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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When one company sunsets in the game business, another one rises. That’s my interpretation of Amazon’s decision to open a new location for its Lumberyard game engine team in Austin, Texas.

Amazon is announcing the new Austin location for Amazon Lumberyard today. It comes not long after MaxPlay, the maker of a competing game engine, confirmed that it had laid off almost all of its employees at its San Francisco and Austin locations.

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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.