History
Auran was established by Greg Lane and Graham Edelsten in 1995, and released its first game, Dark Reign: The Future of War, in 1997. Dark Reign sold over 685,000 units and was rated in the top ten real-time strategy games by the US magazine Game Developer. The game received a 9.2 rating on GameSpot and was called "one of the most impressive games released this year in any genre." They also developed the Trainz train simulator series, which uses their self-developed middleware game engine Auran JET, and Fury, a PvP-based massively multiplayer online game, and has published a number of games for the Australian market, including Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich, Shadowgrounds and Hearts of Iron II: Doomsday.
In late 2005 one of the company's founders, Greg Lane, left, saying it was time to move on. Greg Lane was responsible for the development of Dark Reign and Trainz. Greg Lane is now the Chief Technology Officer for MyVirtualHome (MVH). MVH uses Auran JET as the basis for their 3D home design program.
On 13 December 2007, Auran Development, the company behind Fury, went into voluntary administration. The majority of staff was laid off. Auran Games (the developer of the Trainz series) continued to operate, with a development team of just three individuals. Auran Games later became a subsidiary of N3V Games (previously known as N3VRF41L), founded by Graham Edelsten and Tony Hilliam in 2005.
As of 2007 the game Fury is the most expensive game yet produced in Australia costing AU$8.3 million. However, the game did not sell well on its release.
On 6 October 2010, N3V and Frogster (de) Pacific began operating a Brisbane-based server for the Runes of Magic MMORPG developed by Runewaker Entertainment.
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