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Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS by thrckpo on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @04:43AM (#11064253)
This seems to be a fork of an old version of CryEngine
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Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS by tristanj on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:28AM (#11064419)
Makes sense. There were rumors last year that Amazon spent $50-70 million to license CryEngine from the near-bankrupt Crytek.

http://kotaku.com/sources-amazon-spent-big-bucks-on-cryteks-...

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Re:Lumberyard and Amazon GameLift and Twitch for Games on AWS by saddestcatever on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @10:41AM (#11065971)
Is it just me, or does $50m seem like a deal in terms of buying a top-end video game framework that will compete with the likes of unity and unreal?
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