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With the COVID-19 lockdowns and quarantines in place, a number of studios have been forced to delay releases and updates over the past month. New World, is the latest game to be delayed due to the pandemic. The 17th century colonial survival MMO was supposed to release near the end of May but has now been pushed back to August. [...]

Amazon Game Studios has just published the latest issue of their New World weekly dev blog. This time the developers talk about the upcoming MMORPG’s main antagonists – The Corrupted. “As you establish a safe haven in a Settlement or Fort, the Corrupted take notice. Corrupted Breaches will begin to emerge in your territory, making travel and resource gathering more [...]

Amazon Game Studios has a new New World dev vlog up for you to watch titled “Call to Arms.” This time, the developers talk about the combat system in the upcoming sandbox MMORPG, which according to Lead UX Designer Dan Henuber, is “100% real-time action combat.” The video also shows off how various weapons and the game’s weapon-based specialization work. [...]

Just like in real life, you’ll have to work hard before you can finally build the house of your dreams in New World, Amazon Game Studios’ upcoming survival MMORPG. Well, probably not as hard but it won’t be a walk in the park either. According to the latest dev blog, you’ll need to be at least level 20 and have [...]

Earlier this week, Amazon Game Studios published a dev blog that talks about the three factions in the game: the militaristic Marauders, the secretive and highly-intellectual Syndicate, and the fanatical Covenant. Today, they’ve shared a fun little quiz that should help you figure out which faction you belong to. The quiz works like any other personality test on Facebook and [...]

PvP in New World has been a touchy subject for Amazon Game Studios since they made the decision to move away from a free-for-all full-loot system. But, the studio hopes to shed some light on how PvP will be going down in a recent developer blog that talks about the game’s factions. “Factions are powerful organizations locked in the struggle [...]

Back in January, Amazon Game Studios revealed that they were scrapping open-loot free-for-all PvP in New World in favor of opt-in PvP. Naturally, this earned the ire of hardcore players who initially flocked to the game because of PvP. Amazon further added fuel to the fire when they banned a player for posting negative feedback on the new PvP mechanics [...]

Amazon Game Studios has been relatively silent since they announced the planned launch window for New World during The Game Awards 2019 last December. The studio breaks their silence with a recent dev blog that talks about Settlements, governance, and how they’ll work in the game. “Settlements are where players live, congregate, craft, trade, work on Town Projects, and support [...]

This weekend, Amazon Game Studios revealed that they were ditching their initial plans for an open-loot free-for-all PvP system in New World and making PvP an opt-in feature instead. Why the sudden change of heart? Well, apparently testers and devs ran into a little problem called griefing, and they weren’t too happy about it. “One of the problems we observed [...]