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Amazon Delays Next Video Game Half a Year After Latest One Flops

Previously due in August, New World now slated for spring 2021
“We don’t make the decision lightly,” studio director says

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Source: Amazon.com via Business Wire

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By Olga Kharif

July 10, 2020 at 6:59 PM UTC

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Following scathing reviews of a computer game it released in May, Amazon.com Inc. is delaying its next big-budget game by at least six months. The decision represents another setback for the technology giant’s ambitions to break into the gaming industry.

The next game, New World, was supposed to debut in late August but is now scheduled for spring 2021, Rich Lawrence, director of Amazon’s game studio, wrote in a blog post Friday. The company wants extra time to implement changes suggested by players who have been testing the game, he wrote.