In the merged data from Twitch, a possible competitor of Steam from Amazon was discovered — Vapour
On Wednesday, Twitch was subjected to a hacker attack: among the stolen data was information about an application codenamed Vapour. It has already been dubbed a Steam rival.
On October 6, an anonymous person leaked about 145 GB of data from Twitch to the network: the files include the source code of the site, details of payments to streamers and, among other things, information about the Vapour project. A Twitter user with the nickname Sinoc drew attention to this.
Grabbed Vapor, the codename for Amazon's Steam competitor. Seems to intigrate most of Twitch's features as well as a bunch of game specific support like fortnite and pubg.
Also includes some Unity code for a game called Vapeworld, which I assume is some sort of VR chat thing. pic.twitter.com/4KeeEOspyQ— Sinoc (@Sinoc229) October 6, 2021
Sinoc called Vapour a competitor to Amazon‘s Steam and posted screenshots of the merged files, which show that the project will be closely integrated with Twitch functions.
In addition, Unity code for a VR application called Vapeworld was found in the project data – journalists suggested that it could be an analogue of PlayStation Home. In the assets to Vapeworld, they also found a 3D emoji with the image of the artist Bob Ross and a map from Hearthstone.
PC Gamer notices that Amazon has been planning to launch its own store for a long time. Back in 2017, after the purchase of Twitch, the company registered a patent called “connecting to the game from the gameplay monitoring system”. The user interface of the claimed software allows you to order and buy a demo or full version of the game. You can also stream and connect to the game going live.
Earlier, the new CEO of Amazon said that video games could become the largest entertainment category of the company. It is quite realistic that for the further development of its gaming projects, Amazon wants to create its own platform like Steam.
