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The third Humble Bundle deal is now history and the efforts have once again been impressive for the "pay what you want" business model for selling games. The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle, which allowed people to purchase five games from developer Frozenbyte, brought in over $909,000 in about two weeks. While that's about half of what the second Humble Indie Bundle brought in last Christmas those funds were spread out over five different indie game developers.

Not all of that money is going to Frozenbyte; two charities (Child's Play and Electronic Frontier Foundation) will also get a cut as will the Humble Bundle organizers itself. It's currently unknown exactly how the money will be distributed since gamers could set their own levels of participation. The highest donation came at the last minute of the bundle; an anonymous gamer paid $2,222.22 for the games.

With just 24 more hours to go, the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle has now received over $870,000 in its latest "play what you want" indie game sales event. While the amount will be far below the $1.8 million raised by the second Humble Indie Bundle last Christmas, you have to remember that the revenues for this third bundle will be going to just one game developer, Frozenbyte, for sales of its five game titles.

As we reported last weekend, the organizers of the Humble Bundle have now raised over $4.7 million in venture capital funds. However the organizers have yet to officially comment on this development and what it means for future events like this.

With less than a week to go before the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle "pay what you want" sales event ends, developer Frozenbyte has added more extras to its five game bundle of new and older titles. The biggest addition is the free playable teaser demo of the upcoming platformer Splot. The full version will be released later this year for all Humble Frozenbyte Bundle owners.

The source code for Frozenbyte's Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds Survivor games has also been released. Finally the level editor for the puzzle-action game Trine has been made available. So far the bundle has generated over $720,000 in revenue for the five games involved along with the two charities (Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play) and a tip for the Humble Bundle organizers with over 4 days to go.

With exactly one week to go before it shuts down, the "pay what you want" Humble Frozenbyte Bundle of five downloadable games from developer Frozenbyte has raised nearly $690,000. The rate of revenue has slowed considerable since the first day when the bundle raised over $400,000.

Just a reminder: The bundle contains five games from Frozenbyte; the two titles in the Shadowgrounds sci-fi top down shooter series as well as Trine, the fantasy platformer-puzzle game, all DRM-free and all in PC, Mac and Linux versions. You also get the soundtracks for all three games and three music tracks for the upcoming sequel Trine 2. The bundle also gives access to the previously unreleased top down action game prototype Jack Claw. Buyers of the bundle will also gain access to Splot, a platformer that has yet to be released.

The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle continues to chug along as five games from developer Frozenbyte are now available on the "pay what you want" business model for the next 12 days. So far there have been over 100,00 sales of the bundle and well over $525,000 in revenue generated.

Frozenbyte have announced that buyers of the bundle can now also download three music tracks from the soundtrack to one of its upcoming games that's not a part of the bundle, Trine 2. In addition one of the games in the bundle, the prototype Jack Claw, now supports keyboard and mouse controls in addition to the Xbox 360 controller. Frozenbyte says they plan to put in a few more small updates and extras in the bundle before it's over.

The third "pay what you want" game sale event from the folks behind the previous two Humble Indie Bundle deals is doing very well. The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle has generated over $400,000 in revenue in its first 24 hours.

While that number is actually below the $500,000 generated by the second Humble Indie Bundle deal in its first 24 hours, that money was given to several game developers plus two charities. This new deal's revenues will go to just one developer, Frozenbyte, along with the charities. Just a reminder: The deal lets you pay what you want for the two titles in the Shadowgrounds sci-fi top down shooter series, the fantasy platformer-puzzle game Trine, the previously unreleased game prototype Jack Claw, and the upcoming game Splot.

The first two Humble Indie Bundle events generated well over $1 million in revenues each time for the select group of indie games via the "pay what you want" business model. Now that same group is launching a third such effort but this one is a bit different. All five games will be from the same developer Frozenbyte.

Yes, Frozenbyte is offering five of its games via the "pay what you want" model for a limited time. The games include the two titles in the Shadowgrounds sci-fi top down shooter series (both now have new Mac and Linux ports for this deal) as well as Trine, the fantasy platformer-puzzle game (that game now has a Linux port). All three games also come with their music soundtracks.

But that's not all. Paying for the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle also gives the customer access to two more previously unreleased games. One is Jack Claw, a top-down action game prototype (Windows only) that features the player controlling a character with a giant whip in an urban setting. The source code for the game is included. The other title is Splot, a game that hasn't even been released yet but will be given to anyone who purchases the bundle once it's ready. We don't have any idea about what the game is like but the concept art looks ... interesting.

The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle should be live by the time you read this and will last for at least 14 days. By default, any purchases of the bundle will also benefit two charities, Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. You can check out a trailer (with goofy narration) for the bundle after the jump.

Update: In just its first hour the Humble Frozenbyte Bundle has already generated about $58,000 in revenue.

Trine 2 is already shaping up to be an impressive follow-up to developer Frozenbyte's original game. Recently the game's publisher Atlus USA released a new trailer showing off more of what we can expect to see in the sequel.

As in the first game, Trine 2 will be a mixture of fantasy side-scrolling action with a lot of physics based puzzles to solve as well. As you can see in the trailer, the sequel has gotten a nice graphical upgrade with lots of colorful and well designed levels and creatures to check out. It almost makes up for the fact that we will have to wait until later this summer to actually play the game.

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Trine is great, sure, but judging by the trailers, Trine 2 looks to be way better. This particular trailer shows off some of the new puzzles and elements to the indie platformer, and we're loving the aesthetic it brings to them. Our personal favorite is watering a plant to cause a giant snail to move out of the way. It's all very charming, soft, and storybook-like, which is all we can really ask for. This trailer is also almost entirely in-game footage as well!

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Fans of developer Frozebyte's cult hit puzzle-action game Trine will have to wait a little longer for the sequel. Trine 2, first announced back at E3 2010 in June for a spring 2011 release date, has now been pushed back to a "late summer" 2011 time frame via an email note from its publisher Atlus USA. No reason was give for the delay.

While Trine 2 was first announced back in June 2010 it wasn't until October of that year that Frozenbyte confirmed that the sequel would indeed be released for the PC platform. You can learn a little more about the game via our interview with Frozenbyte's CEO Lauri Hyvärinen that was conducted just as the game was first announced.