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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.

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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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.

For the past few days we have been going over our most anticipated PC games in the next 12 months in the first person shooter, action, RPG-MMO and strategy genres. But there are a lot of games that just don't fit comfortably in those categories. But that doesn't make them any less notable in our eyes. Also there are some games that we missed out on writing about in our previous parts of the series.

Today is the conclusion of our most anticipated PC games feature of 2011. Today's list includes a number of racing games along with some sim titles, adventure games and indie titles. As with our previous articles these games are listed in order of their planned release dates but those dates can, and usually do, change with little notice.

Developer Frozenbyte's action-puzzle game Trine has sold very well in its PC incarnation. Now comes word that the title will be making its long awaited debut on the Mac. Frozenbyte has announced that the Mac port of Trine will be released sometime in November.

The Mac port will be released at first via Steam and because of that Trine will also support SteamPlay, meaning that people who purchase the PC port will get the Mac version for free and vise-versa. The Mac port will appear on other download services later. Frozenbyte also hints that if the Mac port of Trine does well a Mac version of the upcoming sequel Trine 2 could be released in 2011.

[Via email press release]

Trine was one stellar indepedent game, and Trine 2 looks just as good as the first. However, it's not merely going to be a rehash with new levels. It's also including some new gameplay mechanics. The two new ones shown off in this trailer are air currents (which push around the wizard's conjurations) and the knight's projectile reflection. There's also multi-character co-op play, but that's not a new feature, as it was in the original game. The more we see of Trine 2, the more excited we get. The original was pretty fantastic, after all.

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When it was first announced that develper Frozenbyte was going to create a sequel to its cult hit downloadable action-puzzle game Trine we were very excited. So excited in fact that we managed to get the first interview posted about Trine 2. However the sequel's publisher Atlus would not yet commit to announcing which platforms Trine 2 would appear on.

Thankfully our (small) worries have been done away with. Frozenbyte and Atlus have now indeed confirmed that Trine 2 will be released in spring 2011 for the PC platform (alongside the Xbox 360 and PS3 consoles). The original Trine was released for the PC first with console ports coming later but there's no word if that will be case for the sequel. In any case, you can breath easier now.

[Via email press release]

A late breaking development on Monday has put the fate of a well known Japanese publisher, as well as its US subsidiary, in question along with the fate of two recently announced downloadable games. Gamasutra reports that Index Holdings, the parent company of game publisher Atlus, has "dissolved" Atlus in order to focus its attention on "profitable core areas".

According to the report the Atlus brand name will continue but at the moment it's unclear how the brand will live on. It's also unclear how this will affect Atlus USA, the North American subsidiary to Atlus. Last June at E3, Atlus USA announced it would publish two downloadable games in 2011; the puzzle-action sequel Trine 2 from developer Frozenbyte and the unusual looking strategy game Rock of Ages from developer ACE Team.

Update: A post on the Atlus USA's message board states, "Don't worry, guys. This is just some corporate organizational maneuvering and won't affect anything we do."

Ever feel that a game just doesn't contain enough rainbows? Frozenbyte has got your back. The success of their puzzle-platformer Trine has opened the way for a sequel, which they have dutifully revealed to the public. Some of the most interesting things about Trine 2 are the variety in enemies (more than just skeletons!), the addition of online co-op, and the aforementioned rainbows. 500% more rainbows, in fact. Don't believe us? Check out this excellent trailer, and behold the splendorous colors.

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Developer Frozenbyte created a sleeper critical hit in 2009 with the release of Trine, its downloadable title that combined platform action with physics-based puzzles and co-op. After lots of hints, it was announced At the tail end of E3 2010 that Frozenbyte would be making a sequel to the game in collaboration with publisher Atlus.

While the game isn't due out until the spring of 2011, Big Download has gotten some of the first details about the sequel direct from Frozenbyte's CEO Lauri Hyvärinen. In the first official interview about Trine 2, he gives us the scoop about what to expect from the next game in the series: