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Recently, Amazon Game Studios had to hit pause on the economy in its new MMO, New World, following a series of item duplication and gold farming exploits. After getting everything back to normal, another error was made, gifting players on EU servers hundreds of thousands of gold. As you might …

At launch, New World’s developers had to scramble to set up additional servers and increase player populations to put an end to queuing issues for players. Now six weeks on, many players have left the game behind as developers continue to fight major issues with the in-game economy.  Last month, …

This week, New World’s 1.0.3 update is rolling out and with it, server transfers are starting to go live for players across the world. While Amazon did walk back on promises of cross-region server transfers, it would seem that after evaluating player feedback, the development team is looking into delivering …

Amazon is still working on implementing server transfers in New World. Following additional testing last week, the feature now appears to be ready, but Amazon chose to hold off on rolling it out over the weekend to avoid disrupting the “peak play period” and potentially causing server balance issues.  New …

While New World seemed to have a great launch, long server login queues and issues with character transfers have hurt the game in the weeks following. Over the last few days, Amazon confirmed that it will not be offering cross-region server transfers to players despite previously saying it would, and …

To deal with the massive amount of concurrent players at launch, Amazon opened up more servers for New World to handle the rising player population. At the time, the developers recommended that new adventurers play on these new servers for now, and then take advantage of a free server transfer …

Back in July during the New World alpha, EVGA RTX 3090 owners quickly ran into issues with their GPUs dying after playing the game. Now, history seems to be repeating itself, with Gigabyte RTX 3090 owners now having severe problems.  New reports of crashes have surfaced on Reddit, with multiple …

After years of testing, major development changes and delays, Amazon’s ambitious MMO, New World, has officially released. The game is available as of today and it already appears to be a hit, with over 550,000 concurrent players on Steam today – a number that continues to rise.  This morning shortly …

AMD has released a new graphics driver, and with it comes multiple bug fixes, support for new games and optimisations for existing ones. The biggest highlight is a significant performance improvement for Diablo II: Resurrected, which now runs up to 13 percent better.  Diablo 2: Resurrected now runs up to …

Back in July, we had the chance to play a good chunk of Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World, in closed beta. Now, with the game’s release date just on the horizon, Amazon is holding an open beta for the game.  The closed beta was limited to pre-order customers, but the …

Back in July, following the launch of the New World beta, there were multiple reports of EVGA RTX 3090 graphics cards dying after a short time running the game. Amazon did what it could to reduce the issue, while EVGA began investigating and sending replacements to those affected. Now, the investigation …

Last month, we had the chance to play a good chunk of Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World, in closed beta. Now, with the game’s release date just on the horizon, Amazon has announced dates for the game’s open beta.  The closed beta was limited to pre-order customers, but the upcoming …

Amazon’s New World MMO has proven to be rather popular, with the game’s closed beta topping the Steam sales charts for multiple weeks in a row. All of this user data appears to have made the studio realise that they need more time to work on the game, as New …

Each week, the top 10 best selling Steam games (based on revenue) are published. It offers an interesting look at the current market and zeitgeist. It seems that Amazon’s New World MMO is proving to be rather popular, as the game has dominated the sales charts for its second week …

While World of Warcraft used to be the most-talked about MMO, Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV has recently overtaken the conversation, with the game even suspending sales of digital copies due to having too many players. That said, Amazon’s New World MMO seems to be garnering great interest, as the …

Over the last few days, EVGA RTX 3090 owners have ran in to trouble while trying to play the closed beta for Amazon’s upcoming MMO, New World. A number of customers have had their graphics cards fail after playing the game, but it seems that EVGA is getting on top …

Amazon Game Studios’ ‘New World’ has been in development for many years now, with the first mentions of the MMO appearing in 2014. The game has been delayed time and time again, but here we are in July 2021, with the closed beta live and the official launch just on the horizon. In this week's KitGuru Games, we go over what has changed since the early alpha days and try to answer the biggest question of all - is this MMO worth playing now?

Earlier this week, a number of RTX 3090 owners began reporting issues with their graphics card after playing Amazon's upcoming MMO, New World, which is currently in closed beta. Due to the apparent severity of this issue, Amazon Games has now responded with a statement...

Last night, Amazon Game Studios’ long in-development MMO, New World, entered closed beta, granting early access to pre-order customers. Those with an EVGA RTX 3090 graphics card will want to be wary, as reports indicate that the game is bricking these graphics cards.  Over on the New World subreddit, Twitter …

Amazon Studios’ upcoming MMO, New World, finally has a new release date. The game was delayed again back in February, but just a few months later, we have a new launch date. Assuming it sticks, you’ll be able to play New World in August.  While the game was originally supposed …

Amazon has been attempting to break into the games industry for a long time now with its own internal game studios. Most projects have been cancelled, but New World, the company’s ambitious MMO, has managed to avoid that fate. Development hasn’t been completely without trouble though, as it has been …

Amazon Game Studios has been working on its first MMO, New World, for years now. There have been plenty of closed alpha and beta tests during that time and it looks like the game will remain in a pre-release state for a bit longer. While the game was supposed to …

Amazon Game Studios has been working on its first MMO, New World, for years now. There have been plenty of closed alpha and beta tests during that time and this year, the game is set to officially release. New World was originally due out in May, but due to the …

For years now, Amazon has owned its own in-house games studio working on secretive projects with some big name talent involved. Amazon even went out and made a deal with Crytek to use CRYENGINE as the basis for its own engine. Now, the situation at Amazon Game Studios is starting …

Although Netflix’s Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is far from the first ‘choose your own adventure’ experience, it’s fair to say that the feature-length episode has launched the genre back into prominence. Using an inventive marketing twist on the system, Amazon has chosen to showcase its upcoming MMO ‘New World’ by letting …

Amazon revealed that it would be venturing into the massive-multiplayer online (MMO) genre in 2016, being one of the first games under its Amazon Game Studios banner. Leaked footage has now given us our first look at what to expect from New World, including a breakdown of its core systems. …