Screenshot: Amazon / Lulu ChibaAmazon Games’ New World launched in closed beta last week. When they aren’t having their expensive GPUs melted by the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, users may also be treated to some anti-Amazon truth-spitting courtesy of a player curiously named AmazonOfficial.When Lulu Chiba isn’t working as the community director at both Aggro Crab Games (Going Under) and Eggnut Games (Backbone), she’s treating her over 80,000 Twitter followers to a wonderful feed of general musings and hilarious shitposts on the rest of the video game industry. Her latest work of art, posted earlier this morning, is all about what she’s been up to in New World since joining the beta.“Whenever I have the chance to name a character as an online ID, I always go for whatever I think they might have overlooked or banned and see what is allowed,” Chiba told Kotaku via email. “To my…

A delivery contractor stole more than 8,800 Amazon packages worth $274,000 from a warehouse in New Jersey, according to police.Akeem M. Johnson, 38, of Bridgeton, was employed by third-party contractor Globus Express and was responsible for taking pallets of packages from an Amazon warehouse in Logan Township in Gloucester County, and delivering them to U.S. Postal Service facilities, according to details included in an affidavit of probable cause filed by Logan Township Police.Amazon began investigating Johnson when a large number of packages were reported as not delivered.In all, investigators identified 8,824 Amazon packages with a total value of $274,483 that never made it to their destinations, police said.Johnson admitted to Amazon loss prevention officials in May that he committed the thefts beginning in November of last year “because of difficulty surviving during the COVID pandemic,” according to the affidavit.He also admitted using someone else’s access card to enter the warehouse,…