This week, The Walt Disney Company initiated company-wide layoffs that affected departments across the entire organization, targeting everything from the home video team to ESPN. …
… While Amazon has never formally announced the game's cancellation, sources told Eurogamer that developers were being shifted off New World and onto the Lord of the Rings team as the project finally ramped up, only for the broader layoffs and Amazon's retreat from large-scale MMO development to inte… …
… Layoffs and low player counts made ongoing development difficult, and the MMO never came out of early access. …