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Amazon’s latest version of Lumberyard game engine targets accessibility

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon is unveiling its latest update for its video game creation engine, Lumberyard Beta 1.7, which includes more than 403 new features, improvements, and fixes.

J.C. Connors, senior leader of Amazon Lumberyard, said in a blog post that customer engagement with Lumberyard — which is based on a license from Crytek and its CryEngine — has exceeded the company’s expectations. Amazon gives Lumberyard away for free and charges for things such as web services.

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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.