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Amazon Game Studios‘ recently released MMO New World is clamping down on gold farmers and bots in the game, by revoking keys used for those accounts.New World players have been reporting bots for a while now, as most will gather at specific spots to fish and mine for gold, so it looks like Amazon is finally taking action.

New World players have created their own minimap to help navigate the world of Aeternum.As spotted by Gamerant, Reddit user Morbrid has – with the help of their friend – created a completely functional minimap in New World.

New World is down for an estimated five hours to implement patch 1.0.2 into the game.Today (October 13), New World went down at 11AM BST for maintenance that will – according to Amazon Game Studios – take an estimated five hours. This means that while  New World servers are currently offline, they should be back online at around 4PM BST.New World servers are down so that Amazon Game Studios can implement “another swathe of bug fixes” and further setup for upcoming server transfers.

New World are issuing mass reports, trying to get players banned to help them win in-game wars.As spotted by PC Gamer, players have figured out that mass reports on accounts can result in a 24-hour ban, so they’ve been reporting opposing players right before a war, which happens over a limited time.Posts across the New World subreddit and forums have been decrying the issue, with one post titled “50 people in my 100 person company are now banned,” with the user asking for a fix ASAP, saying

Amazon Game Studios has announced that players will not be able to change region in New World, despite previously saying otherwise.Next week New World will receive the free server swaps that Amazon Game Studios had promised. The free server swap option was announced when the game launched.

Shelter Manager, an apocalyptic bunker survival game developed and published by Hamsters Gaming, is launching into early access today on Steam. To entice people to try and survive the end of the world, the game currently has a ten per cent discount,Shelter Manager features a Fallout Shelter–style bunker layout — view your shelter side on and manage the residents’ sleep schedules, food rations, electricity usage, and ensuring they stay safe and healthy.

New World is seeing a gold scamming problem emerge just a couple of weeks after the Amazon Game Studios MMO launched.As reported by PC Gamer, the New World subreddit has been aflame with users talking about the issue, as companies (individual “guilds” under one of the game’s three factions) are struggling to keep the gold they are taking in.This has been happening for many reasons, as companies can tax players trading or using facilities in their owned territories, or in extreme cases, company

New World has arrived, fixing a variety of bugs and aiming to tackle players who are circumventing the AFK (away from keyboard) prevention system.The patch notes share that Amazon Game Studios has “implemented the groundwork for the character service transfer”, which should arrive in full “later this week”.This patch also makes it harder for AFK players to stay in the server without getting kicked.

New World, and it looks like they really love to fish. Reported by Icy Veins, players of the Amazon Game Studios title have been taking to Reddit to show videos of hoards of bots just standing around and constantly casting out their rods.

Amazon Game Studios’ New World hit the top of Steam‘s concurrent player charts, briefly overtaking Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.Over the past 24 hours, New World hit a peak player count of 913,634, according to SteamDB. The number was reached at about 8pm BST on Sunday, October 3.

Amazon Game Studios has updated the away from keyboard detection in New World to prevent players from staying in servers when they aren’t actually playing.New World has problems with server queue times being too long. While Amazon Game Studios work to fix the issue, some players have found a way to stay on servers when they need to take a break.

Amazon Game Studios has announced that players will no longer be able to create new characters in servers designated as full.In an announcement posted yesterday (October 2), the New World Twitter account has said that it is “implementing a system to prevent new players from creating new characters in full servers”.Servers marked as full will be greyed out, and players will receive an error message stating, “character creation temporarily disabled on this server to prevent overpopulation”.We are

Amazon Game Studios title New World has some very interesting terms and conditions.As spotted by this Reddit post, Amazon Games terms of use section 5.1 highlights who can play the companies’ games, be they live human, alien, robot, ape, or other.“To enter this agreement and use the games, you must be a live human (e.g., not a corporation, organisation, artificial intelligence (good or evil), extraterrestrial, sentient non-human primate, etc.),” outlines the agreement.“However, this restriction

New World developers have released a statement, explaining how the team are working “around the clock” to reduce queue times.Following on from a message on launch day that acknowledged lengthy wait times and promised work was being done to fix that, the New World team has explained what work has been done since.“Since our launch on Tuesday, we have more than doubled the number of servers and we are working to increase the capacity of all available servers to support a higher population cap,”

Amazon Game Studios has released a statement rounding up the first day of New World, which launched yesterday (September 28) to high demand and long queue times.Yesterday evening, a statement on the launch of New World stressed that “it has been an unbelievable 24 hours” for the MMO’s first day, though it acknowledges that “players are experiencing lengthy queue times” when trying to play the game.Outlining plans to fix it, the statement notes that the studio is “continuing to stand up

Amazon Game Studios looks like it has enjoyed a successful first day of New World, as streaming viewership and playercount stats suggest that the MMO’s launch has been incredibly popular.In statistics provided by Twitch analytics site SullyGnome, New World reached a peak concurrent viewership of just under 1million viewers yesterday (September 28).

PC MMO New World from Amazon Game Studios doesn’t let players name their character after the company, or its founder Jeff Bezos.We have PC Gamer to thank for the discovery, as one of the first things they did was see what character names they could get away with in the game.

Amazon Game Studios‘ MMO New World has been a hit at launch, immediately rocketing up Steam’s most-played lists.According to SteamDB, at time of writing New World has 599,267 concurrent players (up from 512k during the course of writing this article).

New World launching on September 28, Amazon Game Studios has revealed that Game Of Thrones composers Ramin Djawadi and Brandon Campbell have collaborated to create music for the MMO.In a video looking at the making of New World‘s sound, audio director Jean-Edouard Miclot – alongside Djawadi and Campbell – sat down to explain how the sound and music of New World came together. Both Djawadi and Campbell have worked together on a host of titles, including Gears Of War 4 and Gears 5.

Amazon Games announced that it has hired former Ubisoft executive Alexandre Parizeau, handing him a “competitive multiplayer” title as his first project.As spotted by Hollywood Reporter, Amazon Games has acquired former Ubisoft executive Alexandre Parizeau, who previously worked as Managing Director at Ubisoft Toronto.Parizeau has also worked extensively on a series of Tom Clancy-branded shooters, working as Senior Producer on both Rainbow Six Vegas and the Splinter Cell franchise.

PC parts and gear – has explained that cases of New World bricking Nvidia RTX 3090 GPUs was actually due to “poor workmanship” within the cards themselves, and not the MMO’s fault.Back in July, beta players for Amazon Games‘ MMO New World reported that playing the game had completely fried their RTX 3090, leading to EVGA replacing all damaged RTX 3090s with no questions asked.Now, EVGA has confirmed to PC World that further analysis of the fried graphics cards has revealed “poor workmanship” was

New World is set to release fully on September 28, fans will be able to try the game out with one last open beta ahead of launch.Anyone who is still unsure about buying New World will be able to give the MMO another shot, with a weekend-long open beta scheduled for September 9-12.As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live yesterday (August 26), New World also received a brand new trailer titled ‘Chart Your Fate’, which captures the atmosphere of the game as players will go “from shipwrecked castaway

New World has been delayed until September, following feedback from the recent closed beta.Amazon Games has announced today that its upcoming MMO New World has been pushed back until next month.“We want New World’s launch to be a smooth and fun experience for all players, and that means making some improvements based on what you’ve encountered in the Closed Beta,” said the New World team via Twitter.

fried due to issues during the closed beta for New World.Speaking to PC Gamer, a spokesperson for EVGA said, “Yes, all failed 3090’s are being replaced.”After players reported their GPU woes when attempting to play the Amazon MMO at unlocked frame rates, it appeared that this was specifically affecting EVGA GPUs.Amazon Game Studios has since released a hotfix to address the issue by locking the frame rate settings.“We have implemented an update to reduce GPU load in menu screens by clamping

New World may be proving popular on Steam but it’s not been without issues.

New World has entered closed beta, and is already generating a lot of interest from players.According to SteamDB, the MMORPG from Amazon Games peaked at 190,811 concurrent players on Steam within 24 hours of launching its closed beta on July 20.It’s proven just as popular on Twitch. According to Dexerto, New World racked up over 600,000 viewers, beating out other popular games like Grand Theft Auto V and Call Of Duty: Warzone.

Lost Ark by Amazon Games is coming to PC in North America and Europe this year.The game is currently only available in Korea, Japan, and Russia, it is developed by  Smilegate RPG.Lost Ark is set in the world of Arkesia, and features 15 hero classes and fast-paced combat. It also has an adaptable skill system and the Tripod Skill system.

Lord of the Rings MMO has been cancelled due to an ongoing dispute between Amazon and Tencent, according to a report.Amazon and Chinese developer Leyou Technologies worked on the game until Tencent Holdings Ltd. purchased the developer in December last year.

Amazon Games have announced the opening of a new AAA games studio in Montreal, Canada, and are actively hiring.The third Amazon Games studio joins the existing San Diego and Seattle branches.