Google will wind down game development studios as tech giants struggle to break into gaming February 1, 2021 at 5:24 pm (Stadia Images) Both Google and Amazon have more than enough tools and resources that they’d need to stake a claim in the market. The problem is that both seem to want to simply win by showing up, and that’s not something you can do in video games. It’s been a rough few days for the gaming arms at the tech giants, which are suffering setbacks in their attempts to break into the industry. Bloomberg last week delved into the internal culture at Amazon Game Studios. The goal was to explore why, in Amazon’s staffers’ own words, Amazon’s game development efforts have floundered. Eight years later, with several billion dollars spent, Amazon has little to show for its efforts, and the answer appears to come down to mismanagement at an executive level.