gaming founded 2006 headquarters redwood city california key people scott hartsman ceo products rift archeage defiance trove number of employees 200 est. parent independent website http www.trionworlds.com en trion worlds inc. previously trion world network inc. is an american video game developer and publisher which focuses primarily on mmos particularly of the mmorpg and mmorts genres . the company was founded in 2006 by lars buttler and jon van caneghem who had each previously worked for ncsoft 1 and left in 2009 to join electronic arts . 2 contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 rift 2.2 defiance 2.3 end of nations 2.4 archeage 2.5 trove 2.6 devilian 2.7 atlas reactor 3 investors and partners 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was originally founded as trion world network inc in 2006 by lars buttler previously serving as vice president for global online at major american video game publisher ea and jon van canegham previously serving as executive producer at south korean online video game company ncsoft . the two left their respective jobs to pursue the founding of a company that could define a generation of interactive entertainment by fundamentally revolutionizing the way games are created played and distributed . citation needed after the founding the company immediately began development on the trion platform a server technology through which it claims both trion and external partners will deliver games and is claimed to be less heavily client based and enable large scale battles . trion also begun early development on their first mmorpg then titled heroes of telara which would go on to be renamed as rift planes of telara until finally being released as rift in march 2011 . in 2011 in addition to the renaming of heroes of telara to rift planes of telara trion world network inc. renamed itself as trion worlds inc. products edit rift edit main article rift video game in 2006 trion began development on heroes of telara now known simply as rift an mmorpg . the game would go on to undergo extensive alpha testing with beta testing finalizing the stress test portion of development . 3 trion worlds ceo lars buttler has stated that rift has a budget of over us 50 million . 4 the game was officially released in 2011 in the united states on march 1 australia on march 2 and throughout europe on march 4 . defiance edit main articles defiance tv series and defiance video game in 2010 trion and syfy announced a deal in which a video game and related television series would be produced . in 2011 the game was revealed to be defiance an mmo open world shooter for release on microsoft windows steam playstation 3 and xbox 360 on 2 april 2013 . the official press release states that the game interconnects with a global television program by syfy cable s premier imagination based entertainment channel . the first live gameplay demo of trion and syfy s visionary concept debuted at the annual industry event e3 and was announced as the first interconnect video game and television series . citation needed defiance was released on apr 2 2013 and is still being played on xbox360 . destromathe is the captain as of 8 29 2016 . end of nations edit main article end of nations end of nations originally a free to play mmorts video game developed by petroglyph games is now being developed in house at trion worlds and is now a moba rts hybrid . end of nations is currently planned for a simultaneous north american and european release . it was in the alpha phase of development when it was put on hold in november 2013 . archeage edit main article archeage trion acquired the western markets publishing license for archeage . archeage after a beta in south korea another one in russia was released on 16 september 2014 for europe and usa . 5 6 trove edit main article trove video game released on july 9 2015 trove is a voxel based mmorpg developed and published by trion worlds . there are 14 playable classes each with unique play styles and their own themed biome . a large amount of content including dungeons lairs and equipment is player submitted . adventure worlds are randomly generated on spawn with dungeons scattered throughout various biomes . players can join clubs to access a club world where building progress is saved and protected from non club members . devilian edit on june 30 2015 trion announced they were publishing south korea s ginno games devilian in europe and north america . 7 devilian is a fantasy mmo where players play a half devil know as a devilian which has two forms a normal characters and a devil form . the forms level up individually . 8 9 atlas reactor edit at pax prime 2015 trion worlds announced atlas reactor an upcoming turn based massively multiplayer online game set in the future . it is a team based game in which a team of players compete against another team in simultaneous turns . 10 11 atlas reactor launched on october 04 2016 and became the first game to be integrated with discord allowing players to control the discord client while in game . 12 investors and partners edit trion has multiple investors including the time warner investments group comcast ventures bertelsman digital media investments rustic canyon partners trinity ventures and dcm with hp listed on their website as a strategic partner . in addition trion has also partnered with american video game developer petroglyph games american cable television channel syfy and video game publishers sony computer entertainment and ubisoft . citation needed references edit curt feldman . q & a ncsoft executive producer jon van caneghem . dean takahashi . trion world network plays executive musical chairs . bowens cindy 2010 11 23 . vip code distribution . retrieved 2011 03 21 . crossley rob 2010 08 27 . trion s first game budget over 50m . retrieved 2011 03 21 . rift planes of telara is already very ambitious because it is over 50 million in development trion to publish archeage . retrieved 26 april 2014 . archeage launches tomorrow at 10 00 am pdt gmt 7 . archeage . retrieved 17 september 2014 . dungeon crawling mmorpg devilian coming to north america europe . ign . retrieved 24 july 2015 . trion worlds to publish devilian fantasy action role playing online game in the west . venturebeat . retrieved 24 july 2015 . feature spotlight devil form . deviliangame . trion . retrieved 14 august 2015 . te zorine august 30 2015 . trion worlds reveals new multiplayer turn based game . gamespot . retrieved november 30 2015 . tack daniel august 29 2015 . trion worlds announces new game atlas reactor . game informer . retrieved november 30 2015 . atlas reactor game review . mmos.com . retrieved 4 october 2016 . external links edit trion worlds inc. retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trion worlds & oldid 743011851 categories companies established in 2006video game companies of the united statesvideo game development companieshidden categories all articles with unsourced 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