New World has seen its last content update, with Amazon Games confirming their development of the MMO is winding down. The game's servers will be staying online in the short term. This news follows mass layoffs at Amazon, with over 14,000 roles reportedly being affected across the company and the gaming division seeing "significant" cuts.

Amazon is bracing for major job cuts among its corporate employees starting on Tuesday, as it spends aggressively on artificial intelligence development, according to two people familiar with the cuts...

According to one of the people, some AWS teams were recently instructed to cut headcount by 5% in 2025 and by 10% in 2026.