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Vitae Aeternum: New World interview on Summer Medleyfaire, solo play, housing, and more
With the launch of New World's Summer Medleyfaire patch and event this morning, we naturally had questions about the new systems and the future...
Amazon Games will publish Disruptive’s upcoming AAA online multiplayer action-adventure game
Amazon Games just announced that it's expanding its purview once again, taking on a publishing deal with indie studio Disruptive Games. Disruptive is best...
Interview: Lost Ark’s regional parity, genderlocking, and the Amazon-Smilegate collaboration
A few days before the western release of Lost Ark, we posed questions to the Amazon Games team, and franchise lead Soomin Park was...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s slow march to redemption
In the rushes of excitement over Lost Ark and End of Dragons, New World seems to have fallen off the radar a bit. As...
Amazon Games’ Mike Frazzini has stepped down following multiple rocky MMO launches
The head of Amazon Games, Mike Frazzini, has apparently stepped down from his role, announcing the move internally in a Friday announcement, as first...
Hands-on: Lost Ark is a solid MMO that falls just short of true greatness
After years of waiting, the MMOARPG Lost Ark launches in the west today, at least for those who bought founder's packs. The rest of...
Massively Overthinking: How would you fix New World?
Amazon's New World is one of the biggest, most ambitious, and most beautiful MMORPGs the industry has seen in years, and yet since its...
Vitae Aeternum: The rent in New World is too damn high!
The wonderful thing about video games is that they let you experience impossible things that could never happen in the real world. Like buying...
Vitae Aeternum: Explaining New World’s level 30 wall
If you've been paying any amount of attention to New World, you've probably heard of the dreaded "level 30 wall" - the idea that...
Leaderboard: What was the most overrated MMO of 2021?
As our veteran readership will remember, one of our core MMORPG awards every year is our award for the most underrated MMO - an...
Lost Ark’s final Heroes of Arkesia animated series episode debuts
Since Lost Ark isn't set to arrive until sometime in "early 2022," the game has a fair bit of time to keep up the...
Vitae Aeternum: New World’s travel problem is also a storage problem
Today, I'd like to discuss the recent change that increased the experience needed to level crafting in New World: It's terrible, and it should...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s storytelling
I've been wanting to write this column for a while, but it's been a struggle to find the words. I'm never sure of how...
Vitae Aeternum: The cold water splash of New World’s Amrine Excavation and early game dungeon mechanics
Could a single poorly designed dungeon encounter kill a whole-ass MMO for me? I didn't think it was possible, but then I entered the...
Vitae Aeternum: Did New World’s morph to full MMORPG hamstring its PvP?
Leading up to New World’s original launch, I had virtually no interest in playing. Even after Amazon Games pulled the ol’ switcheroo and added...
Vitae Aeternum: New World through the eyes of an Elder Scrolls Online and EVE Online player
When I heard that Amazon Game Studios was releasing an MMO, my plan was to watch from the sidelines until such time that all...
Vitae Aeternum: New World excels and entertains despite uninspired gameplay design
After more than 20 levels’ worth of time in New World, you’d think I’d have a pretty good handle on why this game has...
Vitae Aeternum: New World lacks customization, but that can be fixed
Welcome to our first installment of Vitae Aeternum, an ongoing column in which multiple writers of MassivelyOP plan to bring you coverage, opinions, rants,...
New World delays server transfers to fix ‘edge case’ problems – here’s how they’ll work
Players of New World still stuck on servers they don't want to be on thanks to the game's previous massive queues are likely waiting...
Amazon is publishing Glowmade’s new ‘creative online co-op experience’
What else does Amazon Games have cooking besides New World, Lost Ark, and that unnamed game from Smed? Apparently, it's also publishing a game...
