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Amazon Game Studio has a plethora of new content in the pipeline for New World next year including a new Expedition, raid groups, transmogrification, and more. The studio’s development roadmap for the first half of 2023 reveals the launch window for some of the new things coming to the 17th century sandbox MMORPG. Based on the 2023 roadmap, players can [...]

Following the mass exodus to the newly-opened New World fresh start servers, some of the old “Legacy” servers have now been all but abandoned. To ensure that the players who decided to stay on the legacy servers will still be able to group up and participate in multiplayer activities, Amazon will be consolidating thirteen more of the old servers down [...]

Now that the mad rush to get into the New World fresh start servers has died down, the population has understandably dipped quite a bit but it looks like the game is still doing a whole lot better than before the Brimstone Sands expansion and the new servers came out. Steam Charts shows an average daily peak concurrency of around [...]

Amazon Game Studio has kicked off a new New World developer video series called Forged in Aeternum that will cover basically everything that the sandbox MMORPG has to offer. In the first episode, Game Director Scot Lane sits down with the game’s Creative Director David Ferfaille and Senior Product Manager Drew Higbee to talk about various play styles and their [...]

After adding a bunch of new fresh start servers for New World earlier this month, Amazon Game Studios is now planning to merge several “legacy” servers that were all but abandoned after the rush to join the new servers. The server merges will take place on November 18th at 8 a.m. PST and will include a total of 17 servers [...]

Just when everyone thought that New World was dying, Amazon goes ahead and releases a new expansion that’s had tens of thousands of players scrambling to get back in the game. The opening of fresh start servers yesterday only served to bolster the population even more. By the latest count, the 17th century colonial MMORPG peaked at over 119,000 concurrent [...]

Those proclaiming the death of New World may be a bit early with their predictions. New World experienced a huge surge in players today and is on sale (50% off) for $19.99 until November 8th. The game also launched fresh start servers today which have been extremely popular leading to a huge increase in active players. Steamcharts is reporting over [...]

New World released a lengthy developer update video today in a podcast format (70 minutes) discussing the latest updates coming later this month. The main points of discussion were: Fresh start worlds Roadmap update (leaderboards, cross server outpost rush, transmog, gear management systems, and the next expedition) Weapon balance Brimstone Sands The Return to Aeternum creator event (as well as [...]

New World’s highly-awaited Brimstone Sands expansion will officially be launching today and Amazon is taking precautions to ensure that the servers don't get bogged down. Aside from releasing a regularly updated heat map of which servers are at risk of overpopulation, the studio will also be adding even more servers on top of the nine new ones that have already [...]