Amazon’s ‘all-new’ Luna streams party games and Snoop Dogg

Amazon is readying to refocus its Luna unreality gaming work towards enactment games, successful a bid to pull much Prime subscribers. Amazon Luna caput Jeff Gattis announced successful a blog post connected Wednesday that a “completely redesigned and reimagined Amazon Luna” work volition beryllium relaunched aboriginal this year, introducing a Jackbox-like “GameNight” societal class that allows Prime subscribers to play unneurotic with household and friends.

Like Jackbox, GameNight players tin articulation games by scanning a QR codification utilizing their phone, which volition past service arsenic the crippled controller. The diagnostic volition motorboat with much than 25 multiplayer titles, including Angry Birds, Draw & Guess, Exploding Kittens, and adaptations of committee games specified arsenic Taboo, Ticket to Ride, and Clue. Amazon is besides processing exclusive games for the GameNight feature, starting with Courtroom Chaos: Starring Snoop Dogg. This is simply a “human‑built, AI‑powered improv courtroom game,” according to Gattis, which requires players to support themselves successful tribunal earlier Judge Snoop Dogg.

GameNight volition beryllium disposable to Prime subscribers astatine nary further cost, with further games being added to the diagnostic implicit time. Amazon hasn’t specified erstwhile this aboriginal Luna relaunch volition rotation out, but fixed we’re already successful October, it should beryllium sometime successful the coming weeks.

Aside from gaining a caller societal gaming category, it’s hard to archer however important the upcoming Luna redesign volition be. Gattis says that bringing Snoop Dogg to GameNight is “just the beginning,” and mentions vague plans astir Amazon utilizing AI to assistance reimagine unreality gaming. It’s unclear if these developments would beryllium exclusive to Luna’s GameNight feature.

“With advances successful AI and unreality technology, we spot opportunities to make wholly caller kinds of games – experiences that were ne'er imaginable before,” said Gattis. “We person an unthinkable pipeline of games successful the works and can’t hold for you to play and acquisition the all-new Luna for yourself aboriginal this year.”