Amazon continues to scale back its gaming efforts, this time by ending a notable publishing deal. The Game Business reports that Amazon will no longer be the publisher of an upcoming open-world racing title from Maverick Games, a new studio made up of former Forza developers. The deal was o riginally announced in 2024. The news comes as Amazon continues to pull back after years of trying to break through as a gaming company. As part of its mass layoffs last year, Amazon announced that it would be getting out of MMOs and focusing primarily on party games and its Luna streaming service. So far those changes have included offloading the multipl … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less