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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.

Trion Worlds has announced the launch of RIFT Lite, which will allow those with a Trion account to play the first 20 levels if the MMO with zero restrictions.

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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 SVP of publishing, David Reid, has left the firm to take a position with EVE Online developer CCP as the firm’s chief marketing officer. According to Reid, the opportunity to join the firm was “one of those opportunities that only comes your way once in a lifetime.” Before joining Trion, Reid was president of publishing at NCsoft West. At CCP, Reid will be in charge of marketing for EVE Online, DUST 514 and the upcoming MMO, World Of Darkness. Thanks, GI.biz.

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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Perhaps in an attempt to keep the game relevant as Rift faces its greatest threat yet in the form of Star Wars: The Old Republic, Trion Worlds has announced that for a limited time Rift is going on sale.

From December 22 to January 2, Rift will only set you back $5. However, since Rift is a subscription title you’ll still need to buy a month of game time at $15. Players will also benefit from an enhanced XP-gain event as well. Players will get a 15% bonus on XP, favor, prestige, plaques of achievement, marks of ascension, and planarite.

Via Massively.

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

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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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Petroglyph’s free-to-play MMORTS, End of Nations, has been pushed back to 2012.

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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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Trion Worlds has announced Petroglyph Games’ MMORTS End of Nations will be a free-to-play game.

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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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The weekend is here, Australians! Swallow these last little nibbles and punch out.

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