Amazon Luna expands to U.Okay., Germany and Canada

Amazon introduced at this time it’s increasing its cloud gaming service, Luna, to a few new nations. It’s now out there in the UK, Germany and Canada. That is the primary time the service has launched outdoors the USA. Along with the service itself, the Luna controller can also be out there within the aforementioned nations.

Because the firm weblog outlines, Luna permits customers to play their video games on non-gaming units, similar to a Hearth TV. Prime subscribers have a number of video games they will play on Luna totally free, whereas the service additionally presents different channels similar to Luna+, Ubisoft+ and the Jackbox channel. Subscribers even have entry to Luna Sofa co-op choices and Twitch broadcasting.

Eric Saarnio, VP of Amazon Units Worldwide, mentioned in an announcement, “With Amazon Luna, we’re making gaming simpler and extra handy by providing instantaneous entry to console-quality video games on units prospects already personal. Players within the U.S. have been having fun with Luna for the previous yr so we’re thrilled to now broaden the service to prospects in Canada, Germany and the UK.”

Amazon itself just lately introduced it’s shedding 9,000 staff, together with 400 at Twitch. That is along with the 18,000 it already minimize earlier this yr. Allegedly, staff who labored on Luna have been amongst these minimize from the enterprise final yr.