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If you enjoyed New World’s Winter Convergence event, then you’ll be happy to know that you’ll get to enjoy it for a little while longer. The open world MMORPG’s first-ever holiday event has proven to be so popular that Amazon Game Studios has decided to extend it by another two weeks. The event kicked off on December 16th and was [...]

Big changes are coming to New World in this month’s update but before they roll out on the live game, Amazon Game Studios is giving players a chance to test them out on the PTR. New features and content up for testing include a new endgame feature called Expedition Mutators and a new resource called Umbral Shards. Expedition Mutators adds [...]

As the player population in New World begins to stabilize following the sandbox MMORPG’s massive launch earlier this year, Amazon Game Studio has begun merging servers across all regions to maintain a healthy population on each one. As for those who want to transfer to a different region, the team says that they’re actively working on a quick fix as [...]

Amazon Game Studios is merging a big batch of New World servers today across multiple regions, namely Australia, Central Europe, US East, and US West. Affected servers will be taken offline at 1pm PST (initially scheduled for 9am PST) to relocate players to their new homes just in time for Christmas. It’s worth noting that Amazon will be squishing several [...]

The first phase of New World’s controversial High Water Mark system revamp is now live, bringing significant changes to the endgame system and paving the way for phase two of the HWM update. As part of the revamp, High Water Mark has been renamed to renamed to Expertise and will now display the latter in all UIs. A new resource [...]

After revealing their plans to revamp the endgame gear system in New World and consequently getting bashed for it, Amazon Game Studios has backtracked on some of the proposed changes. As we reported this past weekend, the team is planning to revamp the High Water Mark system with changes that essentially downscales and nerfs endgame gear. The studio now says [...]

The holiday season is about to converge in New World as Amazon Game Studios gears up for Aeternum’s first-ever holiday event called the Winter Convergence Festival. The event is now live on the test server for those who want to get a head start on the game’s winter festivities. The Winter Convergence Festival will feature Northern Lights displays and a [...]

Amazon Game Studios has rolled out this week’s New World patch which comes with fixes for everything that went wrong in November’s Into the Void update. The massive update introduced new features and content to the game, including the new Void Gauntlet weapon, but also ended up inadvertently deleting gear, granting players huge piles of gold, and forced the team [...]

As New World turns the page on gold duplication exploits, players have turned to other less risky ways of amassing wealth. Greedy players have once again turned to the age-old practice of botting and have invaded the best fishing spots in Aeternum. Who cares about fishing, you ask? Well, apparently these bots have made it virtually impossible for real players [...]