October 28, 2025 - Amazon Games was hit with "significant" ... development work—specifically around MMOs." As it turns out, that includes the MMO New World: Aeternum, which will receive no further content updates and could be gone completely by the end ...

4 days ago - New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Amazon Games Orange County and published by Amazon Games released on September 28, 2021. The game was previously scheduled to release in May 2020 and subsequently August 2021, but was delayed until its worldwide ...

October 29, 2025 - These companies are notorious for killing off projects early. Stadia and now Amazon Games. ... As New World recognizes its fourth anniversary since launching on PC, we reflect on an incredible journey shaped by our dedicated player community. Your feedback and passion have been instrumental in evolving Aeternum into the world it is today, and our team is deeply grateful for this shared adventure.

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October 28, 2025 - New World at one point had over a million concurrent players on Steam, but will no longer get new content updates in 2026 ... Amazon Game Studios has announced that just four years after release, its once-popular MMORPG New World will no longer ...

October 29, 2025 - The game wasn't even dead either. Floated between 20-30k players on Steam, which is great for an MMO. New World died as a side effect of Amazon scaling back gaming plans since the industry sort of stagnated after the Covid gaming boom.

October 28, 2025 - can confirm AGS Irvine and AGS San Diego are *gone* this means New World either goes on maintenance mode or is passed off to a third party (probably the former) and the LOTR Hot Shelob game is gone — Lum (@brokentoys.social) 2025-10-28T17:13:17.383Z · Ta, Angrakhan and Elidien_ga. Update: 4:03 pm PT: Amazon has responded to our request for comment with the following statement:

October 29, 2025 - Amazon is walking away from making new content from its MMO, New World, amid huge layoffs affecting 14,000 roles at the company. Now, there is concern over the status of its The Lord of the Rings MMO.

October 13, 2021 - Enter New World, a new MMO from Amazon Games that aims to offer players a significantly less confusing experience by streamlining many aspects of the gameplay. I've spent about 40 hours with New World since it launched on Sept.

October 28, 2025 - The recently launched Season 10 and Nighthaven update will serve as the final content release for New World on PC and consoles. It is only after much consideration that we've reached this decision. To thank you, the New World community, for your support over the years, we have made the Nighthaven release available to you for free.

October 29, 2025 - As of today, no new content updates are planned, the most recent Season 10 and Nighthaven Updates from October 2025, will be the final releases, and servers are intended to remain active only through 2026, but not beyond.

October 20, 2025 - After about two years of painful waiting, New World has finally gained another new zone, the sprawling and spooky Nighthaven. With so many missteps over the last few years, a lot was riding on Amazon sticking the landing with this update.

July 26, 2016 - @NWGameStatus Explore the Eternal Isle in New World: Aeternum - an Open-World Action RPG from · @AmazonGames. ESRB Teen/PEGI 16 · Aeternumlinktr.ee/playnewworld · Joined July 2016 · 129 Following · 325.8K Followers · Pinned · New World: ...

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October 31, 2025 - This might sound incredibly cynical, and that would be because it is, but it seems pretty clear from how Amazon’s corporate side of things killed two other games because they didn’t have immediate success that the goal in development was always to establish Amazon’s gaming division as being top-of-the-line. It’s not a novel goal. Microsoft’s console division has been running for more than two decades now based on the exact same principle, that if we sink enough money into this, eventually we just win. The problem with New World wasn’t that it hadn’t reached a point of sustainable operations; it’s that sustainable operations were never really the goal.The problem with New World wasn’t that it hadn’t reached a point of sustainable operations; it’s that sustainable operations were never really the goal.

October 30, 2025 - Players will still be able to buy New World for now, and it will remain available to PlayStation Plus subscribers on the Extra and Premium tiers "until further notice." Amazon is making this month’s Nighthaven expansion available to everyone for free too.

October 5, 2020 - Amazon Games Studio's upcoming MMORPG is making a move to be more accessible and organized but it's still very much a PvP-centric affair.