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It truly is the season to be jolly! And to hammer this point home the good folks at Humble Indie Bundle have added five games and their soundtracks to the currently running Humble Indie Bundle 4.
One of the shoo-in contenders for best downloadable game of 2011 (and overall game of the year nominee, according to El33tonline’s readers) has just gone and swept up a few nods at the recently-concluded Inside Gaming Awards, hosted by game video site Machinima.com.
Bastion developer Supergiant Games posted on Twitter:
In my PC Buyer’s Guide this year I gave a special mention to the Humble Indie Bundle, and with good reason. These guys have a brilliant solution to not only promote small indie developers with small budgets, but they also give aid to charities. Allow me to explain a little more.
The Humble Indie Bundle normally has a release window of only two or three weeks. During this time there will be a collection of indie games up for grabs at the wonderful price of…whatever you want. That’s right, you get to choose what you want to pay for the games. There is no minimum cost, and if you want to be totally inhumane you can spend 1c on the entire bundle. Ahem. Try such a low number and they give you a very cool picture begging for a little more.
Continue reading El33tonline’s Editorial: Indie Bundles - small budget, big heart!
Haven’t yet had a chance to try out the team-based first-person shooter from Splash Damage and Bethesda Softworks? Good news for you then, because Brink is available for free over Valve’s digital distribution service, Steam, this weekend!
Why would the developer/publisher pair provide such an offer? To celebrate the addition of new community tools!
The PC version of L.A. Noire was released just two weeks ago but you can already pick it up for the bargain price of $24.99 as part of Steam’s ‘daily deal’.
The offer expires in around six hours so you’ll need to be quick about it. You can view the special deal over here.
Just a quick reminder that THQ is holding a big Steam sale this week – you’ll be able to try some of the publisher’s PC games at very reasonable prices.
Following its release on Xbox 360 almost one month ago, the Rezurrection map pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops has gone live for both PlayStation 3 and PC gamers the world over, across the PlayStation Network and Steam respectively.
What’s so special about Rezurrection? For one, it’s all about the zombies this time.
Who says video games can’t change the world? The people at Valve - the company behind Half-Life and the game-changing digital distribution channel Steam - have shown their commitment to education by giving away the highly cerebral, physics-based puzzler Portal for a limited period.
So many tiny pieces of videogame news have emerged over the last day or so, but despite their relative size to, say, the reveal of a circle pad peripheral for 3DS, they’re still very important and/or interesting.
Just take our word for it.
Let’s try to round up some of the more important bits of tiny game news in this edition of News B33ts:
Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge (as it’s titled in South Africa) finally has a release date, and thankfully it’s earlier than many anticipated after the game’s publisher Tru Blu Entertainment assured fans that it wouldn’t release later than September 30th, as it has today been announced that the console versions of Rugby Challenge will launch in early September in the Southern Hemisphere.
PC gamers will have a chance to experience the endearing world of Bastion for themselves when the game releases on Steam next Tuesday. This version of the Xbox Live Summer of Arcade favourite will cost $15 and features all the functionality you’d expect from Steam - cloud saves, leaderboards and achievements.
The Humble Indie Bundle has been a great success, and the third edition of this bundle keeps getting better and better. See here for more coverage of just how good it has been, both to the developer and the charities they support.
Earlier in the week the Humble Indie Bundle 3 went on sale. Gamers were able to pay whatever they wanted for the bundle of five games.
Say what?
Maker of all things ‘Worms,’ Team 17 has gone and formally announced a new entry to the long-running (much-loved) series that will once again let us direct those insane homicidal grubs to their own demise, but not before destroying a few other wriggly varmints in a dazzling display of explosions.
Worms Ultimate Mayhem is billed as a “souped-up, re-vamped, high definition reimagining of Worms 3D and Worms 4: Mayhem,” and aims to bring both of these titles together into one “incredibly over-stuffed, over-the-top package.”
It’s been revealed that Super Meat Boy developer Edmund McMillen is indeed working on a new game to follow up his and Tommy Refenes’ challenging PC and Xbox 360 platformer.
So what’s McMillen working on? A top-down roguelike shooter called ‘The Binding of Isaac,’ coming soon to PC via Steam.
In a blog post, McMillen described the game thus:
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