New WorldĀ is a coming massively multiplayer online role-playing game developing by theĀ Amazon Game Studios Orange County. Previously, the company calledĀ Double Helix GamesĀ is an American developer of video games, which is based inĀ Irvine,Ā California.Ā Double Helix GamesĀ was founded in October 2007 in the result of merging of two studiosĀ The CollectiveĀ andĀ Shiny Entertainment, owned byĀ Foundation 9 Entertainment.Ā Double HelixĀ was acquired byĀ AmazonĀ and integrated into Amazon Game StudiosĀ in February 2014. As a result, we have a huge company, which is working on developing the gameĀ New World, the release date of which is scheduled on September 2021.
The game itself is written on the base of Amazon Lumberyard, is a free cross-platform gaming engine of the class AAA, developed by theAmazon and based on the architecture of CryEngine, which was licensed from Crytek in 2015. The engine has an integration with web services of Amazon, which allows developers to create or post their games on Amazon's servers, as well as realize live-streaming via Twitch. The source code is available to end users, but with the limitations of using: is prohibited either for the publication of the source code of the engine or for using it to release their own game engine.
