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Amazon announced, via a memo hat it would cut 180 jobs in its gaming division and make "some" changes to its games initiative.

A leaked memo from Amazon (AMZN) gaming chief Christoph Hartmann reveals some of the tech giant’s shifting priorities in its video games business. Hartmann,…

The company has laid off a new batch of workers to refocus their resources on other things. The gaming industry is quite unforgiving, which is especially evident in the new round of layoffs from no less than Amazon's Games Division.

Kongregate and Digital Bros. Entertainment, which owns 505 Games, cut employees this week amid a string of video game industry layoffs.

Amazon is making another round of layoffs, which will include over 180 employees in its games division along with an unspecified number of team members in its music streaming division.

The affected employees were notified on Monday morning of the elimination of their roles, constituting the second workforce reduction in the games division at Amazon this year.

Amazon is the latest to layoff workers, this time letting go a total of 180 employees in its gaming divisions.

Amazon.com has cut around jobs in its games division marking the second round of layoffs in under a week for the online retailer and digital streaming provider.

Amazon last week also began cutting jobs in its streaming music and podcast division, people familiar with the matter said. It also cut a very small number of jobs in its human resources unit known as People Experience and Technology, or PXT, the sources added.

Amazon has made a second round of layoffs in its games division as part of a broader restructuring effort to focus on development and publishing.