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MMO Rift is to launch in Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Thailand, owner Trion World said today. The new releases of the popular fantasy game will be handled through Asiasoft, but there’s to be no localization from the English version. There’s a press release here.

Trion Worlds has announced its MMO RIFT has succeeded in setting the world record for the most in-game marriages in a 24-hour period. Officially recorded for the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition, 21,879 marriages were confirmed between 9.00am PST, February 14 and 9.00am PST, February 15. The record will be included in the 2013 edition of the Guinness World Records Gamer’s Edition. In addition to setting a record, all players who got hitched in the game, a feature launched with the recent content expansion Carnival of the Ascended, received the unique in-game title “The Avowed.” Screenshots featuring various nuptials are posted below along with a video.

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Trion Worlds and Chinese Internet firm Shanda Games have entered into an agreement which will see the release of RIFT in China. Shanda will hold the exclusive license for RIFT localized in Mandarin, a deal which Trion CEO Lars Buttler called “a huge step for Western premium games in China.” Trion’s expansion to Asia follows the firm’s recent $85 million round of equity financing, which will also help the firm along as it develops its consumer platform and full-scale publishing and development platform Red Door, later this year. The release of RIFT in Mainland China will be announced at a later date.

Origin has opened the doors to a swathe of third-party content providers, kicking things off with Trion Worlds’ Rift.

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EA has announced the addition of 11 new publishers to Origin, as well as Trion World’s MMO RIFT, which is available on the service starting today.

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Trion Worlds has announced it’s raised $85 million in a round of funding to help aid the firm’s expansion into Asia and further fund its development efforts.

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Trion Worlds would like to reassure you that your RIFT server is not about to close down. At present, 11 of the game’s servers have been labelled as “Trial” – but Trion promise there’s a perfectly valid reason.
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Trion Worlds announced today that its RIFT account database has been hacked, and private information such as: user names, passwords, birth dates, billing and email addresses, along with the first and last four digits of stored credit card information could have been compromised. However, the firm states that at this time, there is “no evidence” that such personal information has been accessed, and it has “no reason to believe, that full credit card information was accessed or compromised in any way.”

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Trion has said it plans to launch RIFT’s dungeon/instance finder, Instant Adventure next week.

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The biggest patch yet for Trion fantasy MMO Rift has gone live, taking the game to v1.6. The update, titled From the Embers, and a new zone twice the size of the game’s current largest; a new, 11-boss dungeon; a new 10-player raid; a new mode, named Warfront; and the “2nd tier of Planar Attunement,” whatever the Sam Hell that is. Get more info here. Watch a video of it after the break.

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Trion Worlds launched a new trailer for MMORPG Rift at New York Comic Con, showing off the many new features and content added to the game since its launch in March.

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Three companies came out ahead of the pack at the 2011 GDC Online Awards – Sony Online Entertainment, Mojang and Trion Worlds.

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Trion Worlds has announced a new game platform established by the firm to publish third-party titles, codenamed Red Door.

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Lots of little bits and bobs through the break – many of them incongruously interesting! Has the world gone mad? MOAR STUPID VIDEOS.

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Trion Worlds has released more details for RIFT patch 1.5, Ashes of History.It also sent out ten screenshots of the content update. Get all below.

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Trion Worlds is celebrating RIFT’s half-birthday August 25-31, and during this time, new and returning players can play the game for free.

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It’s time for your last batch of shorts for the weekend, which we are officially dubbing the malaise edition. Read onward.

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Trion Worlds has released some new shots of the game’s House Aelfwar, and the “Faceless Man’s mission,” which has something to do with Drowning in Snow. Apparently, the later has dispatched two agents to track down a “low-level contact” called. As for the former, the fallen Elves of House Aelfwared are led by a fella called Prince Hylas, which is the youngest of the dragon cults mentioned in the latest update to the game. There’s also a couple shots of the swamps of Stillmoor, which look like a place you may not wish to go. RIFT update 1.4 is live, in case you didn’t already know. Enjoy the shots.

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Trion has released RIFT update 1.4, Legacy of the Fallen, on North American servers. You can find out what to expect in it here. Watch the video for it below courtesy of GameFront.

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Trion Worlds will be releasing Legacy of the Fallen for RIFT soon, and update 1.4 not only includes more PvP rifts but other interesting content which should keep you fighting Abyssal and Aelfwar for a while.

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