Lost Ark news

Lost Ark adds the Dimensionalist class and applies several changes to high-tier progression in latest update

We’re going to just come out and say it: Calling a class the Dimensionalist is a bit of a mouthful. But then again, considering the new class that’s arriving to Lost Ark today is capable of bending space, it’s probably hard to come up with a better name. Space Bender just kind of…

Lost Ark Delays Second Phase of New Server Merges and Addresses Paradise Exploit

The second phase of server merges in Lost Ark has been delayed a little for additional preparation. There's also a fix for a Paradise exploit.

Lost Ark completes its server merging after over 24 hours of maintenance

This past Wednesday, Lost Ark began its great big server ensmooshening, condensing the game’s total servers down to just five. So naturally we have to check in on how it all went, and the news is that things were not exactly swift or smooth sailing, at least by all official accou…

Lost Ark has begun its final Amazon merge down to just five total servers today

The western Lost Ark playerbase is in for some tumult over the next few months: Not only is Amazon exiting the publishing business and dispatching Lost Ark back to developer Smilegate, but the global version itself is undertaking another major server merge that will reduce the to…

MMO Week in Review: Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty are going home

This week’s big news is just a fresh way for Amazon to disappoint gamers: As we’ve long anticipated, the studio finally announced that it’s ending its publishing duties for Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them (and their playerbases) back to the waiting arms of their studi…

Amazon Ending Lost Ark Support but Smilegate Will Keep It Alive

Amazon is ending support for its imported MMORPG Lost Ark, but not all hope is lost for the Korean MMORPG as the developer is rescuing it. Read this article on TechRaptor

Amazon to rescind its publisher role on Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty by early 2027

Amazon Games is returning the MMOs to their respective developers.

Amazon will cease publishing Lost Ark and Throne & Liberty, sending them back to Smilegate and NCsoft

Nobody’s going to be surprised to hear any of this, least of all the people who’ve been watching Amazon lay off all the community teams here in the west following the maintenance moding of New World, but before America could even wake up today, Amazon announced that it’s pulling…

Amazon gives up on MMOs, hands Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to the original devs instead of shutting them down like New World

The two MMOs will change hands in the coming months

Amazon are getting out of the MMO game, handing control of Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty to developers, but it won't all be smooth for players

Smilegate, the developer of South Korean MMO Lost Ark will be taking control of the Western servers that were previously run by Amazon Game Studios. Likewise, FireSpark will be taking control of Throne and Liberty 's servers. Though, the transition will cause some disruption and…

Amazon Game Studios is pulling back from Lost Ark, with the game being handed "back to the developers"

Often when we get a lengthy blog post titled along the lines of 'update on the future', it coincides with an announcement of the project being sunset, with development soon being stopped and eventual plans for the game to be shut down entirely too. For the case of Lost Ark, while…

Amazon Game Studios Exits MMO Genre for Good After Several Years of Operating Lost Ark and Throne and Liberty

Amazon Game Studios is stepping away from direct operation of two of its biggest MMO investments in the West: Throne and Liberty will return to developer NC and its subsidiary FirstSpark Games in the fourth quarter of 2026, while Lost Ark will transition from Amazon to its origin…

Lost Ark's August Update, 'The Bitter Cold' Brings Another Extreme Raid Challenge

Lost Ark's August update, "The Bitter Cold", is coming tomorrow, with Kazeros Raid: Act 2 Extreme, along with new and returning cosmetics.

Smilegate will rescue Lost Ark's western servers, as Amazon ditches support while retreating from MMO development

Amazon Game Studios has announced it will no longer support the Western game servers for massively-multiplayer online action role-playing game Lost Ark , from 2027 onwards.

Lost Ark's Next Server Merges Will Begin Later This Month

A new round of server merges is coming to Lost Ark in two phases beginning later this month. The team previously announced that these would happen, and now they've shared details.

Lost Ark will merge 12 western servers down to five later this month

The next wave of Lost Ark merges are almost upon us. Last night, Amazon announced that North American servers and European servers are due for some ensquishening, though obviously not together. “Starting on August 26, we will be conducting a server merge in both NA East and EU Ce…

Indiana Jones returns with new series set after Raiders of the Lost Ark

Marvel Comics' The Sword of Pandemonium will take place after Raiders of the Lost Ark and is penned by Thor legend Jason Aaron.

Some Lost Ark players are facing an account issue so bad that Amazon told them to stay logged out

Apparently there’s something very wrong happening over in Lost Ark, as some player accounts are apparently having issues bad enough that Amazon Games is telling fans within the Discord to not touch the MMOARPG whatsoever. Reports of these problems first started cropping up this p…

Lost Ark’s Summer of Extremes patch arrives today with Paradise Season 4 and raid update

So let me tell you about the summer of extremes we’re having here. So far it’s been a new multi-day heat record, thunderstorms that caused an emergency declaration in the city, and smoke courtesy of Canada. It’s real hot here, and… I’m being told that is not the type of extremes…

Lost Ark Summer Update: Aegir Extreme Mode and Solo Mode Adjustments

Lost Ark's latest update brings Aegir Extreme, Solo Mode additions and Paradise Season 4.

Lost Ark Will Begin Cleaning Up Inactive Guilds Soon

The Lost Ark team shared a new team update, with the main point of interest an upcoming effort to remove inactive guilds later this month.

PSA: Lost Ark is purging guilds with no active members over the last year

Amazon’s latest Lost Ark team update taketh away without giving much, I’m afraid, because the studio is about to purge all your abandoned guilds and guild names. “As part of ongoing server health improvements, we will be removing inactive guilds from the game beginning the week o…