Yesterday on Massively: December 13, 2007

Yesterday saw the news comes down that Auran (makers of Fury) were closing down their doors and had let everyone go. Being laid off is never fun, but during the holidays is a serious case of suck. We here at Massively are shaking the mojo stick for you all that you land sweet jobs bringing new games to us somewhere soon, Auran folks! Hey Activizzard Blizzivision, a bunch of really good coders just came open -- time to snap 'em up for your next-gen MMO.

Features

• The Daily Grind: The daily grind

• Cinemassively: Futuristing Tower

• One Shots: Wintersday in Guild Wars

General news

• Auran goes into voluntary administration, entire staff let go

• Festival (and the Jester of Festivult) returns to DDO: Stormreach

• Activision execs reap payday from recent mega-merger

• A very guild Christmas

• STO interview comes with first non-space screenshot

• Falling back to Earth

• Rumor: Entire guild Unhallowed Triad moved from EQ2 Test Server to live

• Mounted combat in Age of Conan (and Warhammer, too?)

• Turbine adding to their arsenal for gold-spammer warfare

• Guild Wars Wintersday prep, FAQ and patch updates

• Turbine announces fourth pair of DX10 screenshot contest winners

Tabula Rasa

• Forum Fun: Tabula Rasa Military Surplus 101

• Starr Long talks Tabula Rasa's future

EVE Online

• EVE: Trinity is one of 2007's top game innovations

• EVE Trinity: CCP's take on the boot.ini debacle

Second Life

• Nicholaz "No ass-tachments" Second Life patch available on all platforms

• Linden Lab struggling to keep Second Life simulators up today

Discussion

• Expansion release schedule versus quality

• The rise of Warbook and other casual social games

Round-ups

• Yesterday's Money: 12th December

• Yesterday in Second Life, Wednesday 12 December, 2007

• Yesterday on Massively: December 12, 2007

• Yesterday in Warcraft: December 12, 2007