Amazon’s New World: Aeternum MMO will shut down next year

January 15, 2026 Jay Peters

Amazon has announced that the servers for New World: Aeternum, one of the company's MMOs, will be shut down on January 31st, 2027. The game will also be delisted and no longer available for purchase starting today, January 15th.

Last year, Amazon announced that it would be pivoting away from MMOs to put more of a focus on party games, and the company said at the time that it wouldn't be releasing new content for New World: Aeternum and that the game's servers would be active through 2026. But the longer-term future of the game was unclear, and now we know the official day everything will be shut down.

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