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RIFT Announces ‘Storm Legion’ Expansion
RIFT is set to literally triple in size with the recently-announced ‘Storm Legion’ expansion, which will add two new playable continents as well as new content to fill them, and four new souls to play...
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RIFT dev: Lifetime subs are a “financial disaster”
RIFT will never offer a lifetime subscription option if Trion Worlds global brand director Jim Butler has anything to do with it. “Nope, never. I was against the idea when we did it at Turbine, and it...
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RIFT expansion Storm Legion launches today, adds wearable capes! (Also, other...
The first expansion for RIFT is out today, Storm Legion. It’s a pretty impressively large expansion, literally tripling the size of the game world. Other new features include four new ‘Souls’ (read:...
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RIFT developers Trion Worlds suffers layoffs, 40 staff reportedly made redundant
Our original headline read ‘third of company made redundant’. Trion Worlds have since contacted us to tell us it was not a third, but they have refused to supply us with the actual figure. In the...
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RIFT accepts the inevitable, going free-to-play in June
We all knew it was on the cards, and now finally, here it is: RIFT will become a F2P game on June 12. Free players will enjoy two character slots and three bag slots, while RIFT owners will have...
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Trion Worlds sparks wild rumours with new round of lay-offs
Following on from cuts to the Rift team in December, Defiance developer Trion Worlds has made another round of lay-offs. “To best position Trion in a rapidly changing industry, we have reorganized our...
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RIFT is now free-to-play as of today
Well, they announced it and now, in a move that will surprise no-one, it has happened. As of today, RIFT is now free-to-play, joining the ranks of basically every other MMO ever. Hit up the official...
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RIFT developers hint at upcoming second expansion during livestream
Trion Worlds have revealed that the Plane of Water is set to be the battleground for the next big RIFT expansion. Concept art shown during a livestream event showed a multi-level map which includes a...
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RIFT sales and player numbers “way up” since F2P switch
Things are looking up for the beleagured folks at Trion Worlds since their flagship MMO RIFT moved to a F2P model back in June. “I’m actually very pleased with how the team has executed on it,” said...
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RIFT update 2.4 launches today, will go to infinity and beyond
Update 2.4, “Beyond Infinity”, has launched overnight for RIFT. The update brings two new raids, Planebreaker Basion and The Infinity Gate, as well as a new 5-man dungeon called Realm of Twisted...
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RIFT is now free-to-play on Steam, various non-free options also available
Trion Worlds have sent word that RIFT has now arrived in Steam’s free-to-play section. Three special editions have also been released, which are not free but available in various prices: the Ascended...
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RIFT 2.5 arrives in time for resurgence, F2P Steam launch brings 25% increase...
Song of Dreams, the latest update — although these things are so large they really should be called expansion — for RIFT has gone live this week. According to the official website, the patch adds a new...
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Rift Fae Yule celebration now in progress
Now is a pretty good time to check back in with free-to-play MMORPG Rift, as the Trion Worlds effort is celebrating its take on Giftmas, Fae Yule, right through January 1. Fae Yule invites you to...
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Community Soapbox: Why free-to-play is not always better than a subscription
That's right -- free-to-play is not better than a sub. Never will be. Never really was. Why? Well, there are a few reasons. In my opinion, the best F2P games out there currently are RIFT and Lord of...
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RIFT’s Nightmare Tide expansion offers a new type of rift and account-wide...
Trion Worlds have released some more information about the upcoming RIFT expansion Nightmare Tide, and aside from the usual slew of new places to go (the Elemental Plane of Water) and new enemies to...
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ArcheAge, RIFT and Trove offline as Trion Worlds suffers DDoS attacks
If you’ve been trying to play RIFT, Trove or the new ArcheAge beta and lucking out, there’s an unfortunate reason behind it – Trion Worlds are currently being targeted with DDOS attacks. The attacks...
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RIFT’s first expansion since going free-to-play, Nightmare Tide, is now...
It can be difficult to keep track of all the happenings in the MMO space, especially with the raft of games that seem to fade away before enjoying a resurgence as a free-to-play title. RIFT is one of...
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