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Amazon’s New World has a hard time getting it right

Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon)   Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had ...

Kathleen Maher

Not for everyone, Amazon’s New World MMO is demanding and has a few glitches, but it has fierce defenders as well. (Source: Amazon)   Dinner out with a young friend who asks, is Amazon still bricking GPUs? Er, what? The gamers among you probably know all about this. Amazon’s new MMO New World, a Windows game introduced last summer, had all the earmarks of a huge hit. First of all, it’s beautiful, enables multi-levels of participation, and with the power of Amazon behind it, the population zoomed up to almost a million immediately. The game includes several different environments with
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