Auran's Trainz Custom Content  for PC Reaches 1.1 Million Downloads

Download Station Offers More Than 12,000 Items for Players

Brisbane, Australia – June 27, 2003 -- Computer game developer and publisher Auran Games (www.auran.com ), creators of award-winning PC titles Trainz Railroad Simulator and The Ultimate Trainz Collection, today announced that custom content from their Trainz Download Station has been downloaded 1.1 million times.  Players can access the Trainz Download Station as part of both titles.

“Reaching 1.1 million downloads of anything in the games industry is a notable accomplishment,” said Tony Hilliam, Auran Marketing Director, “but this milestone is especially significant because it shows the railroad enthusiast market for games is huge. Combined with our 50,000+ online membership this shows that Trainz is clearly recognized as the number one online community in this genre.”

The Ultimate Trainz Collection, which contains two CDs with content including Trainz Railroad Simulator and Paint Shed, has won Editor’s Choice Awards from GameZone and Game Chronicles, and was described in Forbes as the “latest and greatest of these [railroad] sims.”

The Trainz Download Station offers more than 12,000 custom items that players can easily download.  The huge inventory of items includes: 1,600 locomotives; 2,700 different railroad cars called “rolling stock”; 3,000 buildings; 1,300 trackside accessories; and thousands of additional train features, such as new railroads, animals, people, and roads.

“We expect the inventory of downloadable items to exceed 20,000 in the next few months,” said Hilliam, “especially with the pending release of our next title, Trainz Railroad Simulator 2004 which we previewed at E3. TRS2004 will allow people to create customized railroad activities quickly and simply using our new 3D editor adding a whole new exciting category for downloading.”

About Auran
Auran® is an innovative firm dedicated to providing high quality computer games and 3D technology. Auran's philosophy "Don't predict it, Create it" is reflected in our products and services and has led to Auran becoming one of Australia's most exciting interactive entertainment companies. Auran is best known for its acclaimed 3D game engine Auran Jet® (www.auranjet.com ), and for its international hit computer game Dark Reign: The Future of War.