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Why is Amazon giving away the new Star Wars game for free? | Point It Out!
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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Why is Amazon giving away the new Star Wars game for free? | Point It Out!
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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| October 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM EDT to October 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM EDT | Link resolves | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 25 hours, the same result every time. 200, text/html, 220570 characters, landed on https://www.polygon.com/video/why-is-amazon-giving-away-the-new-star-wars-game-for-free-point-it-out/ The wording varied; every check is below.Every one of the 2
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| October 8, 2026 at 12:31 PM EDT to October 9, 2026 at 1:02 PM EDT | Page contains the quotation | Passed | 200 | 2 checks over about 25 hours, the same result every time. the page contains the quotation, exactlyEvery one of the 2
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