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Amazon Game Studios reveals the full schedule of the bonus XP events that will be coming to New World this month as part of the June XP Extravaganza Event. The event series kicked off last week and will run until July 4th. Last week, players were given a chance to level up their weapon masteries or even try a new [...]

New World kicks off its month-long XP Extravaganza event with a Double Weapon XP boost from now until June 9th. The weapon XP boost is only the first in a series of XP boosting events that Amazon will be running throughout the month of June to help players get their characters maxed out with significantly less grinding needed. “Welcome to [...]

Amazon Game Studios is giving New World players a chance to catch up on their weapons training with a Double Weapon XP event. The event will run from June 6th through June 9th with more XP boosting events planned throughout the rest of the month. “Welcome to the New World June XP Extravaganza event! Throughout June, we’ll be hosting a [...]

Amazon Game Studios has taken down the New World servers tonight to deploy several fixes and adjustments related to the recently-introduced 3v3 PvP Arena. The patch will fix an exploit that allowed players to avoid taking damage from the Arena’s Ring of Fire as well as a bug that caused players to inadvertently be kicked out of a match when [...]

After being teased for several weeks, New World’s big May update is now live featuring a new episode in the Varangian Knights storyline, Expedition Mutators for The Depths, and the highly-awaited 3v3 PvP Arena. The new game mode is open to players level 20 and above and can be accessed from anywhere in Aeternum through the Modes menu. “Step into [...]

Amazon Game Studios talks up the design process that went into New World’s upcoming 3v3 Arena in their latest dev blog. The original design was apparently much bigger but was scaled down to remove the advantage that ranged players would get in large open areas. Pillars were also added to break ranged players’ lines-of-sight and force them to move around [...]

Amazon Game Studios talks about the new content and changes coming to New World this month in their latest monthly dev vlog. As previously revealed, the May update will introduce the new 3v3 PvP Arena, a new PvP currency, new Expedition Mutators, and a new episode for the Varangian Knights story arc. “Continue the story of the the Varangian Knights [...]

New World players who are fans of the Great Axe and its Insatiable Gravity Well perk will be disappointed to know that the perk has been significantly nerfed. Amazon’s latest patch has reduced the secondary burst’s weapon damage by 25%, block stamina damage by a whopping 80%, and lifesteal amount from a range of 20% to 50% down to 15% [...]

Amazon Game Studios continues to tweak and adjust New World’s May update on the public test realm in preparation for its release later this month. The highlights of the latest PTR build include major changes to the 3v3 PvP Arena and War mechanics. As of the latest PTR update, players will no longer be able to use non-arena consumables in [...]

Amazon Game Studios rolled out a small New World update that fixes several known issues, but the icing on the very short cake is that the team has removed deleted character names from the pool of “in-use” names. If you weren’t able to secure your go-to character name, then now’s the time to check if it’s available. The rest of [...]