| Auran Closes |
 Auran Closes Fri, 14 December 2007 Fury developer closes, employees let go
 A financial disappointment Fury was a risky and expensive project for Auran, and less than glowing reviews and weak sales evidently made it impossible for Auran to continue funding itself. Despite the company's closure, though, CEO Tony Hilliam has assured players that support and further development will continue with a smaller, core team:
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.
- Kotaku Australia Hilliam also assured fans of Auran's Trainz series that development will continue on current Trainz projects, though at the moment it's unclear just how those projects will be managed. Gamespot has word from an unnamed source that Auran administrators will decide next month whether Auran will be fully shut down or will be restructured.
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