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Summer festivities have come to an end in New World as Amazon Game Studios concludes the Summer Medleyfaire and ushers in the Luck of the Bones event. The new event tasks players with hunting down an NPC named Rafflebones and taking all of his loot, which includes umbral shards, obsidian gypsum, mutation boss trinkets, fortune hunter items, and more. “Find [...]

For most New World players, picking the right type of gear to use boils right down to what’s the most powerful and useful at your given level, particularly when you’re taking on endgame content. Appearance and whether your gears match only comes secondary. A transmogrification system, however, allows you to have the best of both worlds and will soon be [...]

Amazon Game Studios is stepping up its communication game with the release of New World’s first Happenings from Aeternum community newsletter. The inaugural newsletter gathers up some of the most recent developer videos and sheds some light on Amazon’s performance improvement plans for the open-world MMORPG, including DirectX 12 support. AZoth Engine team lead Mike Boccieri says that they’re currently [...]

New World is celebrating the hottest season of the year with the return of its Summer Medleyfaire in-game music festival. This year’s summer event will feature the usual collection of seasonal activities with thirteen new songs to jive to and new rewards to earn. Last year’s rewards will also be up for grabs just in case you missed them. You’ll [...]

It’s been over a week since New World kicked off its Blood of the Sand season and players have been hard at work grinding out the season XP required to progress through the new reward track. Unfortunately, a critical bug caused some of those players to lose those hard-earned experience points whenever they logged out of the game. The good [...]

New World dataminers have apparently stumbled upon clues to the next weapon that will be added into the open world MMORPG. Amazon previously hinted at a new support weapon type coming later this year but have yet to share any information about it. Now, it looks like we’ve got something more to go on. Attribute tooltips on the French and [...]

There seems to be no end to New World’s parade of Blood of the Sands previews as Amazon Game Studios continues talking up the new season in another Forged in Aeternum video. In the latest episode of the long-running developer video series, the team shares more information about the changes coming to the First Light territory map when Season 2 [...]

Amazon Game Studios offers New World players a preview of the shiny new rewards that they’ll be able to unlock in Season 2’s new battle pass in a new dev blog. In the dev blog, the dev team outlines all 100 levels of both the free and premium reward tracks and shows off the battle pass’s UI. Most of what’s [...]

New World’s creative director, David Verfaille, sits down to answer player questions in Episode 36 of Amazon Games’ Forged in Aeternum video series, titled “Balance of Power.” As you can probably guess from the episode title, it’s all about changes coming to both PvE and PvP combat and weapons in Season 2 and beyond. In the video, Verfaille acknowledges the [...]