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Amazon has revealed which games are coming to its Prime Gaming service and its Luna streaming platform in February. While the number of titles is smaller than usual, the games on offer include The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind and Yakuza Kiwami. Several of the titles are also from Black developers, which Prime Gaming is offering to celebrate Black History Month. Unlike previous months, the games will not be released all at once, but spread over the month.
Prime Gaming’s games include the aforementioned Morrowind in the GOTY edition, as well as multiplayer brawler Divine Knockout, puzzle game One Hand Clapping, space sim Space Crew, and action roguelike Tunche. The games offered by Black makers include Waking Oni’s Onsen Master, 2D runner Aerial_Knight’s Never Yield, Ritual Games’ BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad, and Strange Scaffold’s Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
As for Amazon Luna, the new games on its Prime Gaming channel include action game Yakuza Kiwami, racing game WRC Generations, brewing sim Potion Permit, and skate title Skatebird. Amazon also recently announced that it has merged Luna’s Family and Retro channels into the Luna+ channel, which has also become more expensive. The two games it will be adding to Luna+ in February are the side-scrolling platformer Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider and the exploration game Sail Forth.
Amazon recently revealed how much Prime Gaming users got for their subscription, which is that the service’s offerings were worth around $2,300 in 2022. While the more well-known games were claimed the most, it also notes that users claimed games 25% more than in 2021.
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