My guess is Amazon plans to use this engine for their in-development AAA PC game [1][2] announced last year. Usually the engine spin-off happens after the game

My guess is Amazon plans to use this engine for their in-development AAA PC game [1][2] announced last year. Usually the engine spin-off happens after the game itself is released, so I wonder what their motivations are for promoting the standalone engine so soon. [1] http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/245102/Sponsored_Amazon_is_now_hiring_for_its_first_PC_game.php http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/245102/Sponsored_Amazon_i... [2] https://games.amazon.com/jobs/ https://games.amazon.com/jobs/