Facepunch Studios COO says he'll purchase New World for $25 million, and he may not be joking: 'We're all the time on the lookout for new alternatives and we’re open to all avenues'

XRegardless of being a average success, Amazon’s New World MMO shall be taken out behind the woodshed on January 31, 2027 and put down for good. However Facepunch Studios chief working officer Alistair McFarlane says “video games ought to by no means die,” and has thus made a proposal to purchase it—and a pair different well-known business figures have stated they’re prepared to assist.

First issues first: I do not know if this can be a severe provide. It sounds prefer it is not, but additionally prefer it could possibly be—or, on the very least, that it is likely to be a type of conditions that begins out as a joke however then spirals into an precise factor. It is the type of ambiguity I usually take pleasure in, besides when it makes my job tougher, corresponding to now.