Edge

NEW WORLD

Developer/publisher Amazon Game Studios

Format PC

Origin US

Release May 26

Amazon wants to arrive in the game industry proper with a bang. Founded A as a developer seven years ago, so far Jeff Bezos’ experimental games arm has largely produced small titles – a forgettable (and bizarre) racing game based on The Grand Tour licence, and a series of Amazon Appstore exclusives. When it’s not been cancelling them, of course.

But our trip to the San Diego studio reveals a project that’s clearly been a while in the making, an expansive massively multiplayer online game set on an uncharted island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. This island, sustained by a supernatural mineral called Azoth that enriches the veins of the land, promises many things to would-be explorers: adventure, immortality, power. Those corrupted by

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