Rust director makes a public '25 million' offer to buy axed Amazon MMO New World, because "games should never die"

Facepunch Studios COO Alistair McFarlane sends a message to the New World dev suggesting he'd fork out millions to keep the ...

Amazon MMO New World Has Just a Year to Live, Rust Dev Offers to Buy It

Amazon has announced that its MMO, New World, will be officially taken offline from all platforms on January 31, 2027.
Rock Paper Shotgun

Amazon's once-hailed fantasy MMO New World will vanish from servers in a year's time

Amazon’s colonial fantasy MMO New World (latterly rebranded New World: Aeternum) is no longer available for purchase as of ...

New World will join the graveyard of defunct MMOs when it goes offline in 2027

The MMO will remain playable for the next year until the servers shut down, but there won't be any future updates other than bug fixes and performance updates. While the game remains in stasis, its ...
Forbes

Amazon Games Ends Support For MMO ‘New World’ Following Mass Layoffs

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Jagneaux is a writer and analyst, covering MMOs and retro games. The never-ending carousel of game industry layoffs ...
PC Gamer

New World proved that the hunger for a modern MMO is clearly there—but the only studios with enough cash to make them are too shareholder-brained to try

There's a feeling I've been trying to shake off, as I write about MMOs for this very site—that MMOs are a relic of the past. Dying not just to our shared lack of time, but also to an era of player ...