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New World hasn t had the smoothest development journey.
It was announced all the way back in 2016 alongside two other titles as the first wave of games developed by Amazon Games, the video game development division of online megastore, Amazon. Since then, the two other titles were canceled and only New World remains. After numerous delays, the hotly anticipated MMORPG is finally making it to a PC near you.
With a focus on PvP combat, New World hopes to stand out among its contemporaries, but its initial showing this past summer left a lot to be desired. Rather than be discouraged by the less than ideal feedback, Amazon Games decided that it needed the extra time to implement player feedback, and add additional polish to what they already had.
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Following several major delays (the game was originally scheduled to launch in May 2020), Amazon s massively multiplayer online roleplaying game New World is now two months away from the Closed Beta due to begin on July 20th and a little over three months from the new release date of August 31st.
Ahead of the looming Closed Beta, we were able to check out one of the biggest additions to the game since the last time we played it: instanced PvE dungeons, called Expeditions in New World.
Whereas the original design focused almost entirely on freeform PvP fights with full loot enabled (which is now gone), over the past year and a half or so the developers have morphed New World into a mix of PvP and PvE, with the latter getting the lion s share of additions. Quest variety has improved, for one thing, and voiceover has been added as well.
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Lord of the Rings MMORPG over the weekend and for a hot second there, I was really bummed about it. But then I remembered that we’ve already got an incredible Tolkein MMORPG –
The now-axed project was planned to be a free-to-play role-playing game for both PC and console and was to be set “at a time long before the events of The Lord of the Rings, exploring lands, people and creatures never seen before by fans of the Tolkien universe.”
The Amazon team working on the game will be moved to other projects, she said.
Amazon Game Studios has struggled to release a successful video game since its launch in 2014.
The company has canceled previously announced games Breakaway and Crucible, while another of its games, New World, has been delayed repeatedly, Bloomberg reported.
Amazon s video game division has struggled because of mismanagement and cultural clashes between game developers and the company s principles, Bloomberg said earlier this year.
Amazon s incoming CEO Andy Jassy said earlier this year that he was committed to the video games division, which launched under outgoing chief executive and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.