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Amazon’s ambitious MMORPG project—and a title that rode early global success to a strong start—New World: Aeternum (hereafter New World) has ultimately announced that it will be shutting down. Amazon ...

Earlier this week, Amazon Game Studios announced its intent to shut down its struggling MMO New World, with the developer now scheduled to take its servers offline at the end of next January. New ...

Amazon Games is shutting down New World: Aeternum, announcing that the MMO will go offline on January 31, 2027. The game was delisted yesterday (January 15), though players who purchased the game ...

Things have dwindled in recent months, however, and now the player base is facing an ending to their adventure, whether or not they want it to come to a halt or not. However, some unexpected help ...

Amazon Games is set to shut down one of its biggest video games ever in a move that will take effect early next year. Over the past decade, Amazon has been making a much stronger push in the gaming ...

The clock on New World: Aeternum is officially ticking, with developer Amazon Games announcing that there's just one year left before its ambitious MMORPG is taken offline forever. But there's ...

After Amazon announced that its MMO New World would close down in January 2027, Alistair McFarlane--the director and COO at Rust studio Facepunch--made an "offer" of $25 million to buy the game. He ...

Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, will be officially taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027. The game is now delisted, which means it is no longer available for purchase. You ...

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Near the end of 2025, Amazon Game Studios announced that New World: Aeternum's time was nearing an end. Following the game's Season 10 rollout, as well as a copious amount of layoffs at Amazon, ...

Today, Amazon shared more details about the final chapter of its game New World: Aeternum. The company announced in October that it would wind down support for the MMO, with the Nighthaven season to ...