May 11, 2021 11:00 EDT 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.