New World: Aeternum

New World is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed by Amazon Games Orange County and published by Amazon Games released on September 28, 2021. The game was previously scheduled to release in May 2020 and subsequently August 2021, but was delayed until its worldwide release on September 28, 2021. Set in the mid-seventeenth century, players colonize the lost fantasy land of Aeternum, modeled after the Americas, where everyone who travels to it becomes immortal. While New World was initially planned as a free-to-play game, it currently employs the standard business model of a buy-to-play game, a point of historical difference in comparison to many MMORPGs that traditionally utilized subscription models in service of significant regular content updates. The game also offers microtransactions in the form of skins along with a limited selection of both decorative and gameplay-impacting functional items for use within the player housing system. PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S versions of the game, under the title New World: Aeternum were released on October 15, 2024, along with significant game updates for existing PC users. A television adaptation, "New World: The Once and Future King", was released on December 10, 2024 as an episode of Secret Level, starring the voices of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Steven Pacey, Gabriel Luna, Arazou, Dana Haqjoo, and Carlo Rota. In October 2025, it was announced that Season 10 would be the game's last. Amazon has said they will keep the servers on "through 2026." In January 2026, it was announced that the game will shut down on January 31, 2027.