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Amazon might have decided to forgo Valentine’s Day celebrations in New World this year but its giving players something more fun to do instead, especially for those who love taking on big bad bosses. From February 21st to March 7th, you’ll be able to participate in the Legacy of Crassus event which will pit them against the eponymous Roman general’s [...]

The New World dev team has released a new Forged in Aeternum episode about how new zones are created for the open-world medieval fantasy MMORPG. In the video, World Experience Lead Mike Willette, Art Director Charles Bradbury, and Environment Art Lead Rosie Strzalkowski talk about the work that goes into developing new zones and areas to explore. The devs touch [...]

Amazon Game Studios is currently working on introducing a leaderboard system in New World as soon as they get around to properly testing it of course. After over two years without leaderboards, the question on everybody’s mind is why now? A question that the team answers in the latest episode of their Forged in Aeternum video series. In the new [...]

The whole purpose of testing changes or a new feature is to discover any issues before they’re rolled out. Usually, this happens during or after the test but not before testing has even started, which is exactly what happened during the testing of New World’s upcoming leaderboard system yesterday. To test the new leaderboard, Amazon invited players to a war [...]

New World’s population continues to drop now that the Brimstone Sands expansion and fresh start servers launch rush has run its course. To maintain a healthy population across all its servers, Amazon Game Studios has merged servers multiple times over the past few months and have merged a couple more earlier today. Eight servers were included in the merge, namely: [...]

New World’s Winter Convergence Festival has officially come to an end following the release of Update 1.8.1 earlier this week. While the update doesn’t come with new content, it does fix several known issues in the open world MMORPG including incorrect fast travel costs, incompatible Winter Convergence Life Staff perks, and Outpost Rush crashing, among others. The team is also [...]

Amazon Game Studios has rolled out a new Forged in Aeternum video that talks about the process of designing and creating a boss in New World. In the new video, Lead AI Designer, AI Designer Patrick Smedley, and Player Experience Lead Dave Hall talk about the entire design process, from their lore inspiration and initial concept to internal testing. “Giant [...]

Territory Wars is one of the marquee features of New World and one of the key drivers of PvP in the 17th century open-world MMORPG. In Amazon’s latest Forged in Aeternum video, Creative Director David Verfaillie and Social Feature Lead Dan Henuber talk about the recent updates to the feature and how the recent tax changes have impacted the game [...]

Amazon is giving the entire gaming community a chance to try out New World for a few days with a free-play event running from December 15-19. Those who decide to take up Amazon on their offer will be lumped in with other free-play players on new servers which will eventually be merged with existing ones at the end of the [...]

Just when you thought that Amazon Game Studios had finally gotten rid of exploits in New World, a new one comes along that’s forced to the studio to temporarily disable trading again. The recently discovered Trading Post exploit reportedly allowed some players to receive more item refunds than intended when Trading Post when a Trading Post action failed. The issue [...]