Auran was established by Greg Lane and Graham Edelsten in 1995, and released its first game, Dark Reign: The Future of War, in 1997.

N3V Games has the public position that TS2012 takes 32 bit architecture as far as it is possible, so in summer of 2013 began development of an entirely new 64 bit game engine called Trainz: A New Era (TANE or T:ANE) which originally slated for Christmas 2014 release, has an official release on 15 May 2015[7] after a lot of troubles during alpha and beta testing.

Soon after the company emerged from bankruptcy, Tony Hilliam, a Trainz devotee, offered additional capital, and the next year Auran Games became a subsidiary of N3V Games (previously known as N3VRF41L), co-founded by Graham Edelsten and Tony Hilliam in 2005,[1] and Edelsten was the remaining founder at Auran[2] while Tony Hilliam, a long time railfan had participated in the Trains 0.9 beta testing in 2000, and was an active and well-known figure on the Auran web board forums, and user of the Trainz simulators.

[citation needed] On 24 October 2008,[14] the new team including Hilliam began TrainzOnline,[15] a wiki dedicated to Trainz technology; the new software featured a built-in web browser to assist Trainz users, in place of publishing separate PDF manuals for each release.

On 6 October 2010, N3V and Frogster [de] Pacific began operating a Brisbane-based server for the Runes of Magic MMORPG developed by Runewaker Entertainment.

By mid-2011, N3V had begun offering payware add-on assets for Trainz developed by its third-party partners, and released a number of smaller game style simple simulations.

By July 2013, their web store categories list nearly 200 titles, mostly for download, for Windows, Mac and boxed set DVD platforms (sic).