Why is Amazon giving away the new Star Wars game for free? | Point It Out!

By Matt Patches · Polygon · Thursday, 8 October 2026 at 16:18 (42m ago) · Original article ↗

What is Amazon Luna and why can I play Star Wars: Galactic Racer on it for free?? Amazon has a game streaming platform that is available to any Amazon Prime subscriber and no one has heard about it. This week on Point It Out!, Patches and Simone discuss whether Amazon's strategy of adding big brand-name games like Star Wars and Hogwarts Legacy to the service will make it pop, or whether this streaming service is destined for the bargain bin like... well, every other Amazon gaming attempt before it.

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