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r/gaming on Reddit: After Massive Layoffs, Amazon Studios Announces That New World Won't Be Getting New Content Anymore
October 29, 2025 - Fuck Amazon ... And then watch as they shut the servers and everything down in 2027. ... God damn it i just bought it because it's been a while and id heard good things about the new dlc, whelp i'll refund it i guess.
GamesRadar+
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Amazon Games gutted amid 14,000 layoffs: work on first-party games and MMOs in particular scaled back, "casual and AI-focused games" a continued focus | GamesRadar+
October 28, 2025 - "We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work"
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Amazon mass layoffs are hitting New World.
According to r/AmazonEmployees , They closed the entire Studio. New World is cooked. More on reddit.com
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October 28, 2025Amazon Game Studios Executive Steps Down as Unit Struggles With Hits
as long as they continue treating video game making as a money making business solely, they will continue to struggle with hits. games are equal amount of art as they are business. you cannot stick to some formula and create a great game, as they seem to have done with crucible, new world. More on reddit.com
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November 15, 2022[MEGATHREAD] Amazon Games Studio
I was speechless when my boyfriend told me the news. I just shut down and didn't speak for a while. Might seem like a weird reaction to some but let me explain. My health is crap and I'm stuck indoors. New World's stellar environmental and sound design lets me enjoy the outdoors from my pc chair. The colours, the lighting, the landscape...all so beautiful. It never got old for me. 2k hours played and I spent most of it gathering and fishing. My favourite thing to do was just be out in the world. I want to say thank you to the devs for making a world that has brought me a lot of joy, and was one of the things that kept me going on many dark days. I'm devastated. There are other games I love but there is nothing else like New World. I don't know what could possibly fill that void. Probably nothing ever will. Fml I'm so god damn sad about this. More on reddit.com
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October 28, 2025After Massive Layoffs, Amazon Studios Announces That New World Won't Be Getting New Content Anymore
Just four years before they pulled the plug on their MMO. This is why nobody trusts their company and one of the reasons their games don't get any hype. More on reddit.com
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October 29, 2025PC Gamer
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Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development' | PC Gamer
October 28, 2025 - Anyway, things are less rosy on the big-budget side of the coin, according to Boom: "While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work—specifically around MMOs—within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team."
PC Gamer
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New World is dead: Amazon ends new content updates following massive layoffs, says 'servers will be live through 2026' | PC Gamer
October 28, 2025 - Game Development Former Riot exec ... healthy player base' Gaming Industry Amazon Games is making major layoffs as it shifts focus away from MMOs to its Luna cloud gaming platform: 'We have made the difficult decision to halt ...
Kotaku
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MMO Shutdown Spurs Review-Bombing As Fans Slam Amazon's Greed
October 29, 2025 - New World: Aeternum stood out as ... for Amazon Game Studios. A hit MMO at launch, it will now be remembered as an unfortunate sacrifice on the altar of the tech giant’s coming AI transformation. The company has announced that New World will get no more new content. It’s not shutting down this instant, ...
Variety
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Amazon Games Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt AAA Development
October 31, 2025 - While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team.”
Eurogamer
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Amazon reportedly "gutting" its video game division as part of 14,000 company wide job cuts | Eurogamer.net
October 28, 2025 - In the memo, Steven Boom (Amazon's vice president of Audio, Twitch, and Game) wrote, "While we're proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team."
Game Developer
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Amazon is ending active development on New World
October 29, 2025 - Steve Boom, vice president of Amazon audio, Twitch, and games, reportedly said the company has made the "difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work," specifically around MMOs, within Amazon Game Studios.
Wikipedia
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Amazon Game Studios - Wikipedia
2 weeks ago - In April 2023, Amazon Games VP Christoph Hartmann wrote a memo to staff about laying off roughly 100 employees across its video games division. In November 2023, Amazon eliminated over 180 employees, resulting in the shuttering of the Crown ...
Engadget
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Amazon is winding down its still-popular New World MMO amid mass layoffs
October 30, 2025 - Amazon Games is winding down support for New World: Aeternum amid layoffs in the division and even deeper job cuts across its parent company.
The Verge
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Amazon is ditching MMOs and cranking out party games | The Verge
October 28, 2025 - “While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team,” Boom said in the memo, which Amazon shared with The Verge.
Yahoo!
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Amazon Games Unit Hit by Layoffs, Will Halt ‘Significant Amount’ of AAA Development and Shift Online Strategy
October 28, 2025 - While we’re proud of our successes in first-party AAA game development and publishing, we have made the difficult decision to halt a significant amount of our first-party AAA game development work – specifically around MMOs – within Amazon Game Studios, including making significant role reductions in our studios in Irvine and San Diego, as well as our central publishing team.”
Game Developer
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Amazon cutting thousands of corporate roles
October 28, 2025 - Chris Kerr, Senior Editor, News, GameDeveloper.com ... Update: Amazon has confirmed plans to make approximately 14,000 people redundant within its corporate workforce, including staff within its video game division.
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r/MMORPG on Reddit: Amazon mass layoffs are hitting New World.
October 28, 2025 -
In a sweeping layoff, Amazon is getting rid of 30k+ people today, and in the future they will remove more and more to replace them with AI.
New World is feeling these layoffs, some people are missing from the discord, and artists are posting on Twitter talking about being laid off. We don't know the full extent of the layoffs yet, as they're going out this morning.
I'm worried for the future of the game.
Edit Update: The Amazon Employees subreddit is saying the entire Irvine AGS studio is gone. That's the one that runs New World.
Edit Update 2: Amazon Games jobs listings do not have the Irvine site listed. Probably confirmation New World is cooked.
Edit Update 3: The AGS LinkedIn page no longer exists. I think we might be cooked cooked.
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Explains why they don't want to open new servers even though they have queues of players waiting to get in. They can't/won't commit long-term. Could also explain why Nighthaven was free. I also remember someone from the NW discord noting that official AGS members were missing from the Discord, and that comment got deleted very quickly. Edit for additional context: The lead dev, Katy, said recently that they "cannot" open new servers in response to server queues. I immediately thought that verbage of "cannot" was strange and suggested something rumbling behind the scenes, turns out to be the case.
Bloomberg
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Amazon Makes ‘Significant’ Job Cuts in Video-Game Division - Bloomberg
October 28, 2025 - Tech giant will reduce game development work and eliminate jobs
Kotaku
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Amazon's Once Popular MMO New World Is Now On Life Support
October 28, 2025 - Amazon Game Studios has announced that just four years after release, its once-popular MMORPG New World will no longer receive content updates as it slowly begins its journey to the end.
The Verge
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Amazon is getting rid of its gaming content channel amid larger games layoffs | The Verge
November 13, 2023 - Amazon is cutting “just over” 180 jobs in its games division and making some changes to its games initiatives, according to a memo sent to employees by VP of Amazon Games Christoph Hartmann.
TechCrunch
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Amazon Games will close its Crown channel on Twitch and cut 180 jobs | TechCrunch
November 14, 2023 - Amazon announced another cluster of layoffs this week along with plans to discontinue the Crown channel, a flashy Amazon-run Twitch channel that featured television-like programming. Amazon will also shutter its Game Growth group, which helped creators in the gaming world market themselves.
Game Informer
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Amazon Games Lays off 180 Employees - Game Informer
November 13, 2023 - Amazon is laying off 180 jobs in its games division, hopping on the tragically overcrowded bandwagon of layoffs in the game industry this year. The news comes via Aftermath, which reports that the layoffs are focused in two areas – the Crown ...
VentureBeat
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Amazon lays off 180 gaming employees, shuts down ...
November 13, 2023 - GamesBeat is the leading B2B outlet for gaming, entertainment, and tech—connecting news, insights, events, and community.