Amazon set to launch Prime Gaming in India • TechCrunch

Amazon is inching nearer to launching Prime Gaming, its subscription service that provides free entry to various titles and which ships bundled with Amazon Prime and Video plans, to its members in India, in keeping with the corporate’s web site.

“With Prime Gaming (included together with your Prime membership) unlock prompt entry to tons of unique content material to your favourite video games and a rotating assortment of PC video games…every month,” the corporate describes on the positioning.

A assist web page on Prime Gaming web site additionally mentions India as an operational marketplace for the service, nonetheless customers who’re at the moment making an attempt to entry Prime Gaming are being redirected to a clean web page.

After some customers noticed and commenced tweeting references of Prime Gaming’s doable launch in India, Amazon quietly eliminated a few of the references late Monday. [H/T Rishi Alwani.]

Prime Gaming is operational in a number of markets. The service, a revamped model of Twitch Prime, was initially launched within the US in 2016. It affords customers a bunch a number of different perks together with in-game loot at no further value and a spread of Twitch-focused options.

The corporate, which has killed a number of its India businesses in recent weeks, didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.