Amazon Makes ‘Significant’ Cuts in Video-Game Division (2)

Amazon.com Inc. is gutting its video-game division as part of a sweeping layoff that will eliminate more than 14,000 corporate jobs.

The company didn’t say how many video-game jobs will be cut, but noted in a memo Tuesday that “significant role reductions” would fall on its offices in Irvine and San Diego, as well as its central publishing division. The company will reduce the amount of work it does on big-budget titles, particularly surrounding massively multiplayer online games or MMOs.

Steve Boom, vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Games, said in the memo reviewed by Bloomberg that the company is “leaning into the ...