Players desperately try to impersonate Jeff Bezos, dodge censors in Amazon Studios video game

Published September 30, 2021 12:00am ET



Players trying to create a character based on Jeff Bezos in Amazon Games’s newest game will find doing so harder than it may seem.

The new massively multiplayer online game, which launched on Sept. 28 and is titled New World, features a customization screen where players can create and name their own character to control. However, players have discovered that they are not able to name their character “Jeff Bezos,” according to the Washington Post.

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