This week, as part of its big layoffs , an Amazon exec said that the company is halting a “significant” amount of its work on MMOs , and the changes appear to have led to the Lord of the Rings MMO the company was working on with Embracer being canceled. “This morning I was part of the layoffs at Amazon Games, alongside my incredibly talented peers on New World and our fledgling Lord of the Rings game (y’all would have loved it),” a former senior gameplay engineer for Amazon Games said on