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New World players and their merry band of Silver Crows are in for a chilling new narrative and icy new challenges when Season 4: Eternal Frost arrives this winter. The only caveat is that the new story quests will only be available to those who own the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion. “A Knight of the Round Table has [...]

Now that the Rise of the Angry Earth launch rush has died down a bit, the New World dev team is now able to shift its focus from fixing launch issues to fine tuning the open-world MMORPG. The latest game update went live earlier this week with various balance changes, fixes, and standardized global pricing. Of significant note is the [...]

The New World dev team is back like clockwork with another Forged in Aeternum episode that offers some insight into the current state of the in-game economy. In the new developer video, the team discussed the impact of Rise of the Angry Earth’s launch on the economy as well as the growing wealth disparity between players and inflation in the [...]

It’s been a busy month for both New World players and the dev team thanks to the release of its Rise of the Angry Earth expansion. Tens of thousands of new and returning players have flocked to the open-world MMORPG over the past few weeks, significantly bolstering player numbers and resulting in multi-hour queues. Amazon has already opened several new [...]

New World’s big three are back with answers to the open-world MMORPG community’s most pressing questions in a new Forged in Aeternum episode. In the latest community Q&A session, Senior Producer Katy Kaszynski, Game Director Scot Lane, and Creative Director David Verfaillie touch on the ongoing server congestion, mutation difficulty, Artifacts, Heartrunes, and more. On the hot topic of ongoing [...]

New World has just received its first Rise of the Angry Earth post-launch update, the first one that’s not a hotfix anyway. Update 3.0.1 kicks off the medieval fantasy MMORPG’s Halloween event as Baalphazu returns to sow terror in Aeternum. “Nightveil Hallow returns as Baalphazu, Marquis of Terror rises once again on October 18 until November 14,” Amazon Game Studios [...]

It’s been a busy week in New World as tens of thousands of players descended on the open-world MMORPG to get their fill of the Rise of the Angry Earth expansion. It’s about to get even busier for those players, assuming that they can get into the game, as Amazon Game Studios announces the return of the open-world MMORPG’s annual [...]

While New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion has managed to renew interest in the open-world MMORPG, it’s also brought a whole host of new problems to the open-world MMORPG. Aside from multi-hour queues, a long list of bugs and issues also popped up with the expansion’s release. Last week, Amazon Game Studios rolled out a hotfix for a [...]

More and more players are flocking to New World to explore the Elysian Wilds and experience everything else that the recently released Rise of the Angry Earth expansion has to offer. The open-world MMORPG’s concurrent player numbers have tripled over the past week, cresting at 77,500 players over the weekend. The last time that the game’s peak concurrency exceeded this [...]

New World’s population continues to rise following the launch of its aptly-named Rise of the Angry Earth paid expansion earlier this week. The day after the expansion’s release, we noted that the open-world MMORPG’s peak player concurrency jumped to just over 50,000 players. With the weekend upon us, that number has now skyrocketed to nearly 70,000 concurrent players. While the [...]