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New World players can finally embark on cross-world expeditions with the release of Patch 4.0.4, promising faster matchmaking times now that players can group up with players from any of the available servers. “Similar to Outpost Rush, any player from any world within the same region can be matched together to form a new instance,” says Amazon. “This means significantly [...]

Amazon Game Studios is finally ready to launch New World’s promised cross-world expedition group finder after it was delayed last year for more work and polish. The highly awaited feature is now set to arrive tomorrow, with a whole host of new additions and improvements based on player feedback and data gathered from the game’s matchmaking system and the activity [...]

New World is ushering in the Lunar New Year with feasts, fortune sacks, and fireworks in its upcoming Year of the Dragon event. The festivities will take place at Ebonscale Reach from February 7-20 where players will be able to cook up buff-granting spicy hotpots, offer tributes to receive fortune sacks, and watch nightly fireworks displays. “Before corruption plagued the [...]

Random loot drops have been a mainstay of role-playing games since Dungeons & Dragons first popularized the genre 50 years ago. It not only brings an element of surprise to each mob or boss you kill or each chest you open, but also encourages you to keep playing until you finally obtain your desired items and gear. In New World, [...]

The New World dev team is merging a handful of servers today as it offers a bit of insight into how they decide on which servers should be squished together. Maintaining a healthy population, of course, is the main goal of server merges, although there have apparently been times when they decided to skip low population servers to give new [...]

Amazon Game Studios is gearing up for another round of New World server merges as part of its efforts to keep server populations at a healthy number. It’s going to be a smaller merge than previous ones and will only three servers in Central EU and US East. Come January 25th, Central EU’s Hercules server will be merged into Canis [...]

The New World dev team dives back into New World’s in-game economy in its latest Forged in Aeternum video. Lead seasons designer Patrick Smedley said that they wanted to revisit the game’s economy again, since the last time that they talked about the topic was when Rise of the Angry Earth had just come out and they had yet to [...]

The New World dev team has started to tick things off its 2024 development roadmap as cross-world Expeditions and the promised group finder improvements arrives on the public test realm today. Amazon confirmed that the features themselves will be making it to the live game in the middle of Season 4: Eternal Frost, which puts their release sometime within the [...]

The monstrous one-eyed duo of Lucanus and Decimus have returned to terrorize Aeternum as New World brings back its Legacy of Crassus event. The limited-time encounter will be available from now until January 23, giving players another chance to grab its exclusive rewards. “Banish General Crassus’s monstrous captains for new event-specific, daily rewards,” Amazon said. “Lucanus and Decimus, brothers bound [...]

The New World dev team has come together for their final Forged in Aeternum and community Q&A video for 2023. As you might expect, the video offers several teasers on what the team has been brewing for the upcoming year, or at least the first few months into it. One of the concerns that came up during the Q&A was [...]