Also, they reportedly pushed a different dev team towards making an AI-stuffed game, then laid those same devs off Image credit: Amazon Amazon's Lord Of The Rings MMO, previously thought dead amid mass layoffs , is now very much conclusively deceased. Though, the coporation say they're still exploring "a compelling new game experience that does justice to Tolkien's world". "Our creative team continues to explore a compelling new game experience that does justice to Tolkien's world; we are working closely with Middle-earth and remain excited about the IP," Amazon's head of games Jeff Grattis told Eurogamer , who've conducted a wider investigation into the company's push towards using generative AI in development prior to last year's layoffs. As has consistently been the case over the years as Amazon have said two Lord of the Rings MMOs were in the works as part of partnerships only to subsequently scrap them, concrete details about what this latest one would've entailed are scarce.…