Or at least it would be a case of Amazon buying one of their suppliers, if not for the fact that Amazon doesn’t have a gaming platform that would merit a studio as good as Double Helix – yet. Amazon bought Double Helix for the same reason they bought Liquavista, Mobipocket, or Kiva Systems each company had skills or tech Amazon wanted, so rather than hiring the smaller company Amazon aqui-hired (bought) what they needed. But with the acquisition of Double Helix, Amazon is clearly building toward a much larger scale effort in the gaming market.ĭouble Helix makes a game called Killer Instinct, and they (or the 2 studios that merged to become Double Helix) also made a bunch of great games before that as well as tie-in games for titles like Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Matrix, and others.īasically this acquisition is a case of Amazon buying one of their suppliers. ![]() and Shiny Entertainment, today employs 75 people who will now become Amazon employees and will continue to operate out of their Orange County home.Īmazon had already been developing games on a small scale you can find some of their efforts in the Amazon Appstore and in the Kindle Store (yes, the games can be played on the Kindle). The Irvine, California-based company, founded in 2007 through the merger of two well-known game development shops, The Collective, Inc. The deal was for both talent and IP, we understand. ![]() The hot news this week is about Amazon expanding their existing gaming division with the acquisition of one of the leading indie gaming studio, thus making it very likely that they have a gaming console in the pipeline.Īmazon has acquired a gaming studio called Double Helix Games, TechCrunch has learned, and Amazon now confirms. ![]() Amazon Buys Game Studio Double Helix Games – Rumored Gaming Console Now Nearly a Certainty
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