As Amazon makes a further 16,000 company-wide layoffs following 14,000 job cuts in October, Amazon Game Studios has reportedly lost its studio head, Christoph Hartmann. "And especially for games, we don't really have acting... The majority of the team sits in programming and that's not going to go away because that's all about innovation. Per IGN, Amazon later said "we regret the confusion" over these remarks, calling actors "essential creative contributors." Amazon Game Studios has done just about everything possible to distance itself from the prospect of making games.