Tag: Amazon Games
Review New World: Aeternum (PS5) - Full-Bodied Action MMO Will Devour Your Free Time
Just when you thought you were safe on console
New World: Aeternum is an expanded re-release of Amazon Games' promising MMO New World, bursting at the seams with new content, and available now on PS5. Completely reborn, the game is in a very different place than the bug-riddled state in which it first launched, and has grown into a behemoth in the...
News Amazon MMO New World: Aeternum Out Now on PS5
Priced at £49.99 / $59.99
Amazon Games is all over the MMO genre at the moment, as its own in-house game New World: Aeternum releases for PS5 today just a few weeks after publishing Throne and Liberty. This one's a paid product rather than a free-to-play title like the latter, priced at £49.99 / $59.99 for the base game. The new console version...
Review Throne and Liberty (PS5) - Beginner MMO Is Plagued with Technical Issues
Not grindy, but not great either
Throne and Liberty is a fantasy MMORPG that debuted in Korea last December. Since its global launch the free-to-play game has dominated Steam's concurrent players and top-sellers charts. While it's certainly popular, a long list of technical issues and uninspired mechanics cast doubts over its longevity. You take up...
News Reborn RPG New World: Aeternum's Open Beta Is Out Now on PS5
A whole new world
New World: Aeternum is now in open beta on PS5, allowing everyone to jump in and sample the Amazon Games title over the weekend. For those totally out of the loop, this is an action RPG that can be played solo or in co-op. New World started life as a full-blown MMO on PC a few years back, and while it had to endure an especially...
News Online RPG Blue Protocol Shutting Down, Western Release Cancelled
Goes offline in Japan on 18th January
Bandai Namco and Amazon Game Studios have announced their collaborative online RPG Blue Protocol will shut down in Japan, and the Western release has been cancelled entirely. Japanese users have until 18th January 2025 to keep on playing the game, at which point it'll be taken offline. In a post on the Blue...
News Take Your First Steps in New World: Aeternum with Open Beta on PS5
A new fantastic point of view
Amazon Games' upcoming online action RPG New World: Aeternum brings the series to PS5 for the first time in October, but you won't need to wait that long to play it. The publisher has announced an open beta, allowing everyone to get a taste for the game about a month before launch. You'll be able to fire up the New...
News Amazon's Free-to-Play Fantasy MMO, Throne and Liberty, Arrives on PS5 in September
Open beta next month
Throne and Liberty, Amazon Games' next big outing, is slated to launch on PS5 on 17th September, with an open beta scheduled for mid-July. Developed by NCSoft, the minds behind PC MMOs Guild Wars and City of Heroes, it looks like it will find a welcome audience on PlayStation. Set in a warring open world, Throne and Liberty is...
Preview New World: Aeternum Gets a Fresh Start on PS5, But Can It Stand Out?
A whole new New World
With New World: Aeternum, Amazon Games is bringing its action RPG MMO to consoles after several years exclusively on PC. This new version of the game is essentially a relaunch for the title, making many quality-of-life improvements and including a brand new onboarding process, ensuring new players get off on the right foot. At...
News Looks Like This Is the New Lara Croft in PS5's Next Tomb Raider
Fans raid official website for new art
Crystal Dynamics is moving on from Lara Croft’s sappy origin story and prepping an all-new entry in the Tomb Raider series which will see the iconic heroine return to her more acrobatic origins. And this appears to be our very first look at the character, courtesy of a wallpaper secretly stashed on an all-new...
Preview Blue Protocol Might Be the Competition Genshin Impact Needs
We go hands on with Bandai Namco's online RPG
For as unfathomably popular Genshin Impact has been all these years, you could argue it's always had things a bit easy. There is nothing else quite like it on consoles, and consistent content updates along with new waifus to metaphorically marry every other month have turned a lot of fans' free time into...
News Fleabag's Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Deck for Tomb Raider TV Show
Sharp-tongued adventurous archaeologist en route
Emmy award winner Phoebe Waller-Bridge has apparently been tapped to lead an Amazon adaptation of Tomb Raider. The English actress, who wrote and starred in Fleabag, is allegedly only on deck for the scripts and will not star as iconic lead character Lara Croft, according to The Hollywood Reporter...
News Biggest, Most Expansive Tomb Raider to Be Published by Amazon Games on PS5
A single player, narrative-driven adventure
Amazon Games, the video game publishing arm of the retail juggernaut, will lend its “full support” to Crystal Dynamics on the next Tomb Raider title – and it will act as the release’s publisher. The legendary developer was purchased by the Embracer Group earlier in the year, after a lengthy stint...
News Amazon, Bandai Namco Take on Genshin Impact with Blue Protocol on PS5
Anime-inspired MMO launching next year
Bandai Namco’s anime-inspired free-to-play MMO Blue Protocol will launch on PS5 in the second half of 2023, as confirmed during The Game Awards today. Interestingly, the project – which was originally announced for PC in Japan only – has been picked up by Amazon Games, who will help bring the product to...
News Smash Hit PC Action RPG Lost Ark Could Be Considered for Consoles
But only if fans "really want" it
Even if you stick solely to PlayStation news, chances are that you've at least heard of Lost Ark. The online action RPG has been a colossal success on PC since its full launch in February, topping concurrent user charts for weeks at a time and pulling in huge profits from its in-game purchases. A bit like Genshin...
Hands On The Grand Tour Game Puts a New Spin on Episodic Gaming
“It’s like playing a film!”
Not long after being forcibly removed the BBC and its insanely popular car show Top Gear, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May, along with their producer and apparently most of the behind-the-scenes talent, started a new show of the same ilk on Amazon Prime called The Grand Tour. It takes all of the crazy...
