Amazon is making 'Breakaway' and other video games to show off Twitch and the cloud

Amazon.com's first big-budget video game is like street basketball, except played in a mythological world where athletes are armed. Wait, Amazon makes video games? Indeed, the leader in online shopping branched into video game development a few years ago. With the unveiling last month of multiplayer online battle sport "Breakaway," Amazon for the first time showed how its gaming acquisitions and initiatives tie together. The PC game integrates into Twitch, the live video streaming app Amazon bought for nearly 1 billion, unlike any game from anyone ever before.