Trine Finally Arrives on PSN Today, XBLA version in Jeopardy

Nicholas "bapenguin" Puleo September 17th, 2009 at 11:47 AM

After almost 4 months of waiting, PlayStation owners will finally get their hands on the three player co-op title Trine. Developed by FrozenByte Software, the game is a physics based puzzle/platformer that puts players in the role of the Wizard, Thief, or Knight. We really enjoyed the PC game, and have high expectations for the PSN version - we just wish the extra time was used to add online co-op. Sadly, it's still missing. Last we heard the game is priced at $20.

GamingNexus recently sat down with the a few team members of the game and got to ask some pretty interesting questions regarding Trine. Of course, co-op is mentioned.

Trine has some pretty fantastic co-op gameplay as well as physics based gameplay. Which of these was harder to design around and why?
Physics-based gameplay was something that hadn’t been done in too many games to this extent before, so we actually had to invent some of the things ourselves. Co-op came together with the solid single player experience, which was the main goal originally. We designed each level to support each of the characters (in most cases) so co-op didn’t actually add much to the design burden.

Sadly one bit of information that came from the interview is that the Xbox 360 version might be cancelled, despite them having code up and running for it already. Be sure to check out the full interview right here.

Update: It looks like the US PSN Store did not get Trine this week. The waiting continues...

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10 Total Reader Comments

smurphster at 06:51 AM on 9.17.2009

grrr.. i want this game on XBL damn it!

Jackel at 06:57 AM on 9.17.2009

I'm still waiting for this to go up for a steam sale.

roland at 07:10 AM on 9.17.2009

Wait, so is this out in all regions then? Earlier this week I had just seen that it was coming to Europe this week. I gotta fire up my PS3 and start it downloading.

Update: I just checked the US store, and it's not on there. When are titles added on Thursdays?

bapenguin at 07:38 AM on 9.17.2009

Usually after 5PM Eastern roland.

BigBadBob113 at 01:05 PM on 9.17.2009

Lately its been much later than that, like 6-7ish. They have been getting lazy.

Psyclops at 01:52 PM on 9.17.2009

The store is updated, but still no Trine. Lately they've been squeezing one last download out like a couple hours after the update though....

BigBadBob113 at 02:30 PM on 9.17.2009

Actually, I saw on joystiq that Trine is coming out on the European PSN. It doesnt mention the U.S. version. Maybe its only available in Europe right now?

Psyclops at 03:03 PM on 9.17.2009

BOO, now I gotta go buy a PSN card-thing so i can pay for it [

BigBadBob113 at 12:41 AM on 9.18.2009

Just buy it directly on PSN with your credit card. Thats what I do.

Psyclops at 02:26 AM on 9.18.2009

Oh, you can do that in the european store? I know you can't in the japanese store, so I just kinda figured....

edit: lol, I just tried it. So either you haven't tried to buy something over the UK PS store, Bob, or I'm helpless. It's just like the japanese store- you can ONLY use a credit card from that country/place (UK isn't a country, so I'm not sure how to classify it).