Amazon announced on Thursday that it’s bringing games to Prime Video by integrating its Luna cloud gaming service into the streaming platform. Games reminiscent of “Hogwarts Legacy,” “EA Sports FC 26,” “Indiana Jones and the Great Circle,” “Clue,” and “Taboo” shall be available starting today on Fire TVs within the U.S. and U.K.
With this move, Amazon is hoping games can turn Prime Video right into a one-stop entertainment destination, borrowing a technique from Netflix, which has increasingly embraced party games over the past several years. Since Amazon already operates a gaming service, it is smart for the tech giant to integrate it into its streaming platform.
Alongside third-party titles and cult classics like “Taboo,” the games library will even feature titles developed by Amazon’s own gaming division, including its “Courtroom Chaos” games and the co-op card battler “Masters of the Universe: Legends Unite.”
Until now, games on Luna were only accessible through the cloud gaming platform’s stand-alone app available to Prime members. Now they’ll be available alongside Prime Video’s movies and TV shows.
Amazon says its vision is to remove the barriers to gaming and make it accessible to anyone no matter their experience or budget. The tech giant says Luna is designed to bring gaming to a wider audience by removing the necessity for expensive consoles or gaming PCs and making games as easy to access as movies or TV shows.
Prime members can now access the brand new “Games” tab on Prime Video and begin playing on their TV using a controller or their phone.
“For plenty of people, games have been harder to search out than they ought to be,” Jeff Gattis, general manager of gaming at Amazon, said in a press release. “Bringing Luna inside Prime Video allows Prime members to find games more naturally, and in the event that they see one they like, they click it and so they’re in. That’s less time searching and more time playing great games included with their Prime membership.”
Amazon says it is going to add recent games every month. The tech giant also plans to bring games to additional devices and countries in the approaching months.
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