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New World has seen a sudden resurgence in its playerbase over the past few months following the release of its Summer Medleyfaire event at the end of July. The servers, however, were unprepared for the sudden influx of players which had the unfortunate and not entirely unexpected side effect of long queue times. The good news is that Amazon is [...]

After a month-long delay, Amazon Game Studios has finally rolled out the Group Finder in New World as part of this month’s major update. The long-awaited feature will allow players to easily search for raid groups and recruit members instead of spamming LFG message in the global chat. “Tired of looking for groups to run Expeditions with through Recruitment Chat? [...]

After a week-long delay due to a last-minute issue, New World’s pirate-themed Barnacles & Black Powder expedition is now live. The new expedition will send players to Admiral Blackpowder’s hold to defeat the infamous pirate and his crew in exchange for loot and renown. Three new Expedition Mutators will also be available to players who want to up the challenge: [...]

Amazon Game Studios has announced a delay in the launch of New World’s new Barnacles and Black Powder Expedition due to last minute issues. The promised Expedition Group Finder had already been delayed as of last week, another key feature of today’s update, which means that the now-barebones update launched with just bug fixes and various gameplay changes. “I am [...]

There might yet be hope for New World as the launch of the Summer Medleyfaire update sparks renewed interest in the struggling medieval fantasy MMORPG. The game’s peak Steam concurrency numbers surged to over 24,000 players following the update’s release on Thursday. It’s a far cry from the 913,000 players that crammed into the game when it first launched but [...]

New World is once again smooshing its servers together in order to maintain a healthy population as its playerbase continues to dwindle. The merges will affect all operating regions, including US East, US West, Central EU, Australian, and South America and will take effect tomorrow, July 22nd after a two-hour maintenance downtime. Upon consolidation, players on the US East region [...]

New World had a good run without exploits of any kind popping up, but all good things must eventually come to an end. That also applies to exploiters as the issue will soon be fixed once Update 1.5.6 rolls out after today’s scheduled maintenance downtime. The update is a small one but it comes with several fixes for annoying bugs [...]

Like clockwork, Amazon Game Studios is back with a preview of the next major update coming to New World this month. The highlight of the July update is a new limited-time musical mini-game that will be available as part of the Summer Medleyfaire event. Players will be able to choose from five instruments and either form a band or perform [...]

Amazon Game Studios is still trying to come up with ways to get New World players to queue up for the new 3v3 PvP Arena as it updates arena rewards for the fourth time this month. Today’s 1.5.5 update once again boosts PvP XP and Azoth Salt gains from the arena depending on how many rounds a team has won. [...]

New World’s is getting another update to its PvP rewards in an effort to bring more players into the 3v3 Arena. The newly-released PvP mode apparently isn’t getting enough attention and Amazon is doing everything it can to encourage players to queue up for it. That includes reducing the PvP rewards gained from other PvP-related activities. Update 1.5.3 patches in [...]