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Developer Frozenbyte has announced Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power.

Like the previous games in the series, Trine 3 will let you solve physics-based puzzles with friends or alone by switching between a number of characters, each with its own unique ability. As you can see in the trailer above, the game will see the return of its three main characters, the thief, knight, and wizard.

Unlike the other previous Trine games, which had beautiful 3D graphics but we’re played on a 2D plane, Trine 3 looks like it will feature fully 3D segments, allowing you to move into the level’s foreground and background.

A third installment in the series makes sense when you consider that, to date, Frozenbyte has sold 7 million copies of the Trine games.

Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power is coming in 2015. Frozenbyte didn’t announce platforms, but previous Trine games were released on Xbox, PlayStation, and PC.

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Stealth Inc 2, the puzzle-platform game that released in late October as a Wii U exclusive, is set to release soon on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PS3, PS Vita, and PC.

The shift to other consoles is due by April, suggesting that the exclusivity agreement with Nintendo lasted about six months. Curve Digital, the game’s London based developer, turned heads in May when it announced it was backing the Wii U as the rest of the industry was turning away from the system.

“The good thing about releasing on Nintendo is, you’re not competing with a lot of other people,” Curve Studios’ Marketing Manager Rob Clarke told Gamespot at the time.

“Even as an indie publisher we always fight with AAA for space on the storefront. With Nintendo, we know they’re gonna support us. We also know that we’re not having to compete with, say, Watch Dogs for example.”

The original Stealth Inc impressed most critics, with GameSpot’s review declaring it “a tightly crafted and incredibly rewarding adventure through a dark dystopia.” The sequel, meanwhile, has also garnered a positive response.

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Sega’s longstanding mascot Sonic still has a place on consoles, one key developer of the franchise has said, following previous statements from the publisher which suggest it will be redirecting its focus to PC and mobile.

Takashi Iizuka, the head of the Tokyo based studio Sonic Team, made the assurance in an interview with 4Gamer amid suggestions that Sega was ready to abandon consoles altogether.

“Please rest assured, I personally have no plans to stop making Sonic games for home consoles,” Iizuka told 4Gamer.

Iizuka was, however, speaking personally about his own ambitions. It is still not certain whether Sega would green-light new Sonic projects for consoles.

In January, Sega revealed that it is reducing headcount, relocating its San Francisco office, and focusing on mobile and PC games in a bid to “drastically improve profitability.”

It was implied here, but not explicitly confirmed, that Sega was more-or-less finished with the console games business. In February, financial documents revealed that Sega’s major push on console games had fallen short of expectations.

The struggling publisher, which formed in the 1940s and shifted its business into video games by the late ’80s, told investors that it would reposition its business around “smartphone and PC online gaming.”

Sega’s statement came amid the release of Sonic Runners, the first smartphone game in the series developed by Sonic Team. For now, the iOS and Android autorunner is only available in Canada as part of a test launch.

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First-person zombie survival title Dying Light has debuted at the top of the all-format UK games charts, despite a month-long delay to its physical release.

The game first released in the US on January 27, and was scheduled to ship across Europe on the same week. However, a major distribution error meant the game’s physical release across the continent was delayed to February 27. The digital edition for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC was not affected by the delay.

Despite the digital edition’s month on the market (sales of which are not counted), Dying Light nevertheless managed to outsell all competition and land at first in the all-format top ten.

This marks the third new number one in as many weeks, with The Order: 1886 and Evolve both debuting at first. It’s also another success for the independent Poland studio Techland, perhaps best known for its 2011 zombie title Dead Island.

Elsewhere in the charts, Sony’s The Order: 1886 drops to forth amid a vacuum of post-release buzz. Meanwhile, the cross-platform action game Dragon Ball XenoVerse managed to jump to third place.

One other new entrant, Dynasty Warriors 8: Empires, enters at 21.

The full top ten follows:

1. Dying Light
2. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
3. Dragon Ball XenoVerse
4. The Order: 1886
5. Grand Theft Auto 5
6. FIFA 15
7. Far Cry 4
8. Evolve
9. Minecraft Xbox Edition
10. Minecraft PlayStation Edition

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