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Holiday festivities have officially begun in New World as its Eternal Frost update finally goes live after roughly a days’ delay. The update was supposed to roll out on Tuesday but was delayed as the team worked to fix an unspecified issue that popped up during internal testing. The update is now live (albeit with a few hiccups), marking the [...]

Christmas has been stolen from New World players, not by The Grinch, but by an unexpected issue with the open-world MMORPG’s Eternal Frost update. The update was supposed to launch yesterday but has been delayed indefinitely while the developers work on a fix. “Unfortunately during the final rounds of testing we discovered an issue with Eternal Frost that remains unresolved,” [...]

New World’s version of the abominable snowman is returning to Aeternum as the open-world MMORPG kicks off its annual Winter Convergence Festival. This year’s holiday event will bring all of the usual Christmasy activities with a few changes made to rewards in response to player feedback. Gift Piles and Gift sacks, in particular, will contain more daily presents to cut [...]

Amazon Game Studios has successfully completed its planned New World server merges without a single issue rearing its ugly head, at least from our point of view. Six of the new servers that were added to compensate for the Rise of the Angry Earth launch rush has now been merged into four existing servers and the US East and Asia [...]

The launch rush for New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion has inevitably died down and its now time for the traditional merging of the servers. Amazon is now preparing to merge six servers into four existing ones across the Central EU, US-West, and South American regions. Here’s the list of affected servers: Central EU Fornax and Delphinus -> [...]

It’s full steam ahead for Amazon Game Studios as it expands New World’s ongoing Eternal Frost public testing to include new content and events. Over the past two weeks, tester have had the chance to try out the upcoming season’s early story quests, artifacts, season pass, and its new Glacial Tarn expedition. With the latest test build, testers now have [...]

Eternal Frost is about to descend on New World as Amazon Game Studios prepares to kick off the titular season next month. One of the highlights of the expansion is the new Glacial Tarn expedition and the focal point of Episode 59 of the studio’s long-running Forged in Aeternum video series. “The Glacial Tarn is a new Level 65 Expedition [...]

The giant rampaging turkey known as Turkulon has reappeared to sow terror in Aeternum as New World kicks off its annual Thanksgiving event. If smashing enemies over the head with a giant turkey leg is your kind of thing, then you’ll definitely want to stay for the party. “Satisfy your hunger for carnage with the succulent Grand Gobbler War Hammer [...]

Temperatures have dropped on the New World test server as Amazon Game Studios begins testing the open-world MMORPG’s fourth season - Eternal Frost. Those looking to take the season’s featured content for a spin can now login to the PTR to check out the new quests, the new Glacial Tarn expedition, and new rewards, as well as the plethora of [...]

The unveiling of New World’s fourth season, Eternal Frost, earlier this week has been marred by the apparent delays of several promised features and content. During the announcement, Amazon revealed an updated roadmap that was conspicuously missing key items that were included in an earlier version of the open-world MMORPG’s Q4 2023 roadmap. Among those that have been removed from [...]