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With the Touring Aeternum series over and done, Amazon Game Studios has kicked off another New World video series on YouTube titled New World: Settling Down. The new series shines the spotlight on player housing in Aeternum in comical reality show-like HGTV fashion. Follow newly-wed couple James and Elena over several episodes as they search for their dream house and [...]

Amazon Game Studios caps off their Touring Aeternum video series with a tour of Shattered mountain, a region that lies in the farthest reaches of Aeternum. The region is named after the dark, craggy mountain looming ominously like a black crown on the horizon. “Shattered Mountain [is] the ultimate summit for any adventurer to tackle. Aeternum’s dark crown is a [...]

Amazon Game Studios is definitely pulling out all the stops in preparation for New World’s release later this summer with not one, but two video series running side by side. This week, the team continues the Touring Aeternum with a quick look at Edengrove, a lush, mostly-uninhabited region with the ominously-named Tower of Malevolence jutting out of its center. “As [...]

Over the past few weeks, Amazon Game Studios has been giving New World fans a video tour of some of the game’s in-game locations in the Touring Aeternum video series. This week, the studio kicks off another video series called Legends of New World which gives players a bit more insight into the game’s background lore. Watch out for more [...]

Amazon Game Studios continues their Touring Aeternum video series this week with a look at the Reekwater swamp biome and the dangerous creepy crawlies and unfriendly ghosts that call it home. Reekwater is also home to the Siren Queen who is responsible for the restless spirits roaming the swamps. “Today, we travel to the boggy swamps of Reekwater. A lonely [...]

Amazon Game Studios is making a few final adjustments to New World as they prepare for the game’s official launch in August. The first part of the June Alpha update is now live bringing with it an exhaustive list of fixes as well as a few significant gameplay tweaks and new character customization options. The latest Alpha update introduces yet [...]

With the New World beta fast approaching, Amazon Game Studios is eager to show off several key locations in the game in their new Touring Aeternum video series. First up is Windsward, a lush region located in the south of Aeternum. Windsward Town is the main settlement and is located in the center of the region with a small river [...]

Here’s some controversial news from Amazon Game Studios. The studio came under fire from the New World community when they started testing the in-game cash shop earlier this month, which, contrary to the team’s earlier promises, contained a variety of boosters. Amazon was quick to comment on the leak to assure the community that all items in the cash shop [...]

Looks like Amazon Game Studios is making steady progress with New World as the studio prepares to transition from alpha to closed beta. Game Director Scot Lane made the announcement in a recent dev blog where he also talked about the May alpha update. According to Scot, the alpha test will run until July 6. During this time, the developers [...]

Ever since New World moved away from being a hardcore full-loot PvP game, Amazon Game Studios has shifted their focus to making the game’s quest system as immersive as possible while making sure that players never run out of things to do. The dev team’s latest newsletter talks about the improvements they’ve made to the game’s quest system in this [...]