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Auran: the facts
The Directors of Auran Developments, the company that employs all the Auran staff, have today called in a Voluntary Administrator (like Chapter 11 in the US). All the staff were dismissed today. Despite earlier reports, staff will be paid for all their work to date, their annual leave entitlements, redundancy payments and long service leave.

Whilst this is the end of Auran Developments, it is far from the end of FURY and Trainz.

Trainz is the world’s leading rail simulator and has a community of more than 250,000 registered users around the world. It is published in dozens of countries and there are many products in the market today. The bulk of the Trainz team will continue to work on current projects and these projects will be released next year.

With Fury, we built up a team to make a world beating game and sadly we have not reached our goals – yet. Our performance to date has meant we could no longer fund the 70 strong dev team. However, FURY: Age of the Chosen will be launched as planned Friday 8pm GMT. We have put together a small but committed team to continue developing FURY on an ongoing basis. This core team, as we announced last week, are a passionate group of people committed to making FURY a success. We will be releasing bug fixes, content and feature updates on a regular basis and in fact they will be more frequent with our new agile team.

I believe that once people hear about F:AotC and the new Free to Play business model, we’ll start building up the player numbers and revenues that will make the game successful.

I expect the naysayers will have different thoughts, but they haven’t played the new build…yet.

Did I hear... free?

yes, its free.

Enter into a world of merciless combat and blood thirsty competition, FURY - the revolutionary Player versus Player, arena combat game.

- Classless character system
Want to play as a warrior one match, a healer the next and then try being a caster? No problem! Mix and match your abilities with FURY's classless character system and play your character with the skills you want, not what we think a certain class should have.

- Your Skill is greater than your opponents ability to play for 12 hours a day
In FURY your skill and ability choice will win you victory, not the amount of time you have to play every day.

- Fast paced combat
Forget everything you have seen in an MMO before as FURY is fast action combat, the fusion between an MMO and an FPS.

- Strength in depth
FURY is fast but it also requires strategy. Ability selection and learning to manipulate your opponents and counter their attacks will need fast thought as well as fast fingers.

- Ph@t l00t
A random equipment system with 10 tiers of armor and weapons, with each tier able to have unique and legendary items means that there are millions of items available. Which will you choose? The best stats or the best looking armor and weapons?

The time has come. Unleash the Fury!


http://www.unleashthefury.com/

Guess I know where I'll be shortly

Dip you have to come play with me before Jan 28th!

Oy, I love the way that sounds, how could I ever turn you down?

Man I have to be really careful around you guys

Just don't stuff me in the toilet again and I'll play nice.

But its really fun giving you swirlys! Plus its like getting a bath at the same time.

Good point! Now I don't have to take a bath til the 1st of the month!

And you forgot to mention about sitting on... oh wait... this isn't area 51