{"id":1465156,"date":"2026-01-17T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/z3NaViVcRGfMvbuKQzES8m"},"modified":"2026-01-17T08:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T08:26:48","slug":"facepunch-studios-coo-says-hell-buy-new-world-for-25-million-and-he-might-not-be-joking-were-always-looking-for-new-opportunities-and-we-are-open-to-all-avenues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/facepunch-studios-coo-says-hell-buy-new-world-for-25-million-and-he-might-not-be-joking-were-always-looking-for-new-opportunities-and-we-are-open-to-all-avenues\/","title":{"rendered":"Facepunch Studios COO says he&#8217;ll buy New World for $25 million, and he might not be joking: &#8216;We&#8217;re always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErrnieGerrn\/status\/2011881214270194132\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a>Despite being a moderate success, Amazon&#8217;s New World MMO will be <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/new-world-will-join-the-graveyard-of-defunct-mmos-when-it-goes-offline-in-2027\/\">taken out behind the woodshed<\/a> on January 31, 2027 and put down for good. But Facepunch Studios chief operating officer Alistair McFarlane says &#8220;games should never die,&#8221; and has thus made an offer to buy it\u2014and a couple other well-known industry figures have said they&#8217;re willing to help.<\/p>\n<p>First things first: I don&#8217;t know if this is a serious offer. It sounds like it isn&#8217;t, but also like it could be\u2014or, at the very least, that it might be one of those situations that starts out as a joke but then spirals into an <em>actual thing<\/em>. It&#8217;s the sort of ambiguity I normally enjoy, except when it makes my job more difficult, such as now.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it all began when Facepunch developer Errn wrote on <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ErrnieGerrn\/status\/2011881214270194132\">X<\/a>, &#8220;I tried to get Ali to buy NW for me but he told me to fuck off :(&#8221; McFarlane <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Alistair_McF\/status\/2011890710468071708\" target=\"_blank\">replied<\/a>, &#8220;25m, final offer,&#8221; tagging the Amazon Games account. He then followed up with the message, &#8220;Games should never die.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not the most iron-clad, lawyers-and-contracts offer, no, but it did attract attention from some interesting quarters. &#8220;I&#8217;ll go halfs with you if we release the original NW alpha as a separate game mode,&#8221; Pocketpair communications director and publishing manager John Buckley <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Bucky_cm\/status\/2012136774571889137\" target=\"_blank\">wrote in response<\/a> to McFarlane&#8217;s message.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-more see-more--clipped\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet hawk-ignore\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Heck yeah. pic.twitter.com\/jfWV8vMdZe<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cantworkitout\/status\/2012140917373956335\">January 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"see-more__filter\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Simon Collins-Laflamme, who recently (and, it seems, quite successfully) rescued <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hytale\/\">Hytale<\/a> from cancellation oblivion, also <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Simon_Hypixel\/status\/2011991595273572406\" target=\"_blank\">chimed in<\/a>: &#8220;If you need tips about buying cancelled games, lmk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:41.46%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"hJScxLtUt6pzcvMvtmqXnd\" name=\"ali3\" alt=\"If you need tips about buying cancelled games, lmk\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/facepunch-studios-coo-says-hell-buy-new-world-for-25-million-and-he-might-not-be-joking-were-always-looking-for-new-opportunities-and-we-are-open-to-all-avenues.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"796\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Simon_Hypixel (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Popular streamer Gothalion <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Gothalion\/status\/2012164214828191871\" target=\"_blank\">expressed enthusiasm<\/a> for the idea too, leading Errn, who started the whole thing, to repeat, &#8220;We offered to buy it to save it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1469px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:130.70%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"TWTPSCvsQA73YbdjoAzhF7\" name=\"ali2\" alt=\"FWIW we offered to buy it to save it\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/facepunch-studios-coo-says-hell-buy-new-world-for-25-million-and-he-might-not-be-joking-were-always-looking-for-new-opportunities-and-we-are-open-to-all-avenues-1.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1469\" height=\"1920\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: ErrnieGerrn (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>All in good fun, and probably not something to be taken too seriously, although sure, it could happen. Amazon is basically <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/amazon-games-is-making-major-layoffs-as-it-shifts-focus-away-from-mmos-to-its-luna-cloud-gaming-platform-we-have-made-the-difficult-decision-to-halt-a-significant-amount-of-our-first-party-aaa-game-development\/\">throwing in the towel on game development<\/a> anyway, and while $25 million isn&#8217;t big money on the Amazon scale, it&#8217;s $25 million more than it&#8217;ll get if it just closes the game and walks away. Surely that&#8217;d be enough to finance a small truckload of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/amazon-breaks-glass-marked-ai-powered-snoop-dogg-game-where-hes-a-judge-to-get-you-to-pay-attention-to-its-wilting-luna-streaming-service\/\">AI Snoop Dogg garbage<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, though, is whether McFarlane is actually serious about the whole thing, and on that point, well, he&#8217;s not saying no.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re opening a publishing arm of the business quite soon and we&#8217;re always looking for new opportunities and we are open to all avenues,&#8221; McFarlane told PC Gamer. &#8220;Games shouldn&#8217;t die. Garry&#8217;s Mod turns 20 this year, and Rust just recently turned 12, with the latter thriving still. We don&#8217;t like to kill games off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dare to dream, New World fans. A lot can happen in a year.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/mmo\/facepunch-studios-coo-says-hell-buy-new-world-for-usd25-million-and-he-might-not-be-joking-were-always-looking-for-new-opportunities-and-we-are-open-to-all-avenues\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>XDespite being a moderate success, Amazon&#8217;s New World MMO will be taken out behind the woodshed on January 31, 2027 and put down for good. But Facepunch Studios chief operating officer Alistair McFarlane says &#8220;games should never die,&#8221; and has thus made an offer to buy it\u2014and a couple other well-known industry figures have said they&#8217;re willing to help. First things first: I don&#8217;t know if this is a serious offer. It sounds like it isn&#8217;t, but also like it could be\u2014or, at the very least, that it might be one of those situations that starts out as a joke but then spirals into an actual thing. 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