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.

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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 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 ...

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.

October 21, 2024 - Josh is no stranger to MMOs, but one MMO passed him by when it first released: New World. With the release of New World: Aeternum, Josh jumped into the MMO on PS5 to see what the buzz was all about.

October 29, 2025 - Amazon has now addressed these questions and the top-line takeaway is ongoing New World development will cease. The game is in trouble. But will it close?

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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 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 - Amazon Games is ending active development on MMO New World: Aeternum four years after release.

October 28, 2025 - Fate has summoned you to the shores of Aeternum, the Eternal Isle. Overcome the brutal legions of The Corrupted and draw battle lines with competing players in this open world MMO fraught with danger and opportunity. In a land hell-bent on your destruction, what will you do to survive?

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November 3, 2025 - Amazon's massively multiplayer online game New World: Aeternum will receive its final content update, with its future unsure beyond 2026.

October 15, 2024 - Today, Amazon Games welcomes players to the highly anticipated online action RPG, New World: Aeternum, now available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam.

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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: