Peoww News

The majority of Eurozone 360 gamers expecting Double Fine’s XBLA tower defence game Trenched were left disappointed last week due to “unexpected challenges with distribution in some European regions.” Corporate shill Dan Maher (GT:MrPointyHead aka that twat off SentUAMessage) added “Shouldn’t take long!”.

This correspondent’s obvious workaround is to download the game via an alternate US account (zip code 90210, natch) and purchase it that way if you’re desperate to get it.

However, it transpires that the delay has been caused by a 2007 trademark held by a Portuguese boardgame named Trench that’s based in World War 1 too. The copyright is held on boardgames and videogames hence the complication. No doubt they’ll reach a settlement or rename the XBLA game in due course.

Maybe the delay will lead it to being released during a slightly quieter period as we seem to be balls-deep in new Live Arcade content at the moment anyway.     Ian