Minecraft : BOGO

Well , the humble bundle ended and Minecraft is opening doors to a whole lot of folks with their latest sale :

• $21.95 for two copies( free gift code for someone you wub) 

From the official website :

When Minecraft is finished, it will sell for €20.00.
If you pre-purchase now during beta, you pay just €14.95!

Here's what you get:

• You get early access to the game to a discounted price!
• You help fund the development of Minecraft
• Custom skins in multiplayer
• Once you've bought the game, it's yours. No DRM.

HB3 update : Atom Zombie Smasher

Humble Bundle is getting sweeter by day. The latest game to be added to the bundle is blendo games' Atom Zombie Smasher .

Bastion for PC : Aug 16th

Supergiantgames in their latest blog post & twitter updates revealed the PC release date for Bastion : Aug 16th .

The game has only had great reviews in Xbox and I wouldn't hope for any thing lesser for the PC version. The game has garnered a lot of appreciation for the hand painted environment, narration , gameplay & the soundtrack.


I was especially interested in this bit " .., remappable controls created for PC – plus gamepad support. " The recent purchase of Wired X360 controller has been rewarding. :) 

Available on steam for pre-orders  for 14.99
Official post here.

Machinarium

Machinarium is now on sale in Steam for $2.5.

Strangely humble bundle website announced the addition of HB2 games ( including Machinarium) to the list of games in the HB3 bundle. This makes me wonder how steam sales work ?

One thing to be noted here is that some of the folks who bought HB3 didn't realize that they already owned Machinarium as part of the bonus and went ahead and bought the game from steam as well.

Bundle in a Bundle

The Humble Indie Bundle 2 games: Braid, Osmos, Machinarium, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans have just been added to Humble Indie Bundle 3. Everyone who purchased Humble Indie Bundle 3 before 10:30am PST today will automatically see the extra games on their download page. New purchasers will have to beat the current average on the site to unlock the extra games.

This is a smart move considering the low average that was persisting across Windows compared to Mac & the generous Linux contributions.

LIMBO

Priced at 9.99 in steam from today , this monochromatic  indie puzzler has already captured the attention of gamers and critics for the mood & art style .Originally released as an XBLA exclusive, the game was re-released by the Danish developers playdead.

The trailer which i chanced upon months back when it was not even announced for PC gave me an eery feeling with the background score , continuous buzz of a bee and a  boy like figure running around in search of something in a dark world. The name somehow seems very apt.


From the steam page :

Winner of more than 90 awards, including GameInformer’s “Best Downloadable”, GameSpot’s “Best Puzzle Game”, Kotaku’s “The Best Indie Game”, GameReactor’s “Digital Game of the Year”, Spike TV’s “Best Independent Game”, X-Play's “Best Downloadable Game” and IGN’s “Best Horror Game”


One strange thing is that the official site for Limbo doesn't state that the game is available on PC till you get to the game store.

Indie Games

The humble bundle 3 is back and I haven't taken a bite till now. I liked COGS from the video reviews I have seen and it looks like your sliding block puzzler with some good thoughts added to make it feel less repetitive.

Well , while browsing the indiegame forums I chanced upon Bastion which looks awesome from the artwork. Pity its only on Xbox now. Hoping they would finish the PC port soon on it.



Browsing the sites linking the humble bundle 3 reviews , i saw a video review of COGS by a developer : Wolfire.The videos in his youtube seemed exciting mainly due to the way he focuses on explaining the research/ work behind it. Some of the videos didn't make any sense to me since I am a complete newb when it comes to game engines or lets say anything related to software development ( pity I am a software tester).


Indie games I have : TRINE , Jack Claw , Shadowgrounds ( All with the Humble Bundle 2) ,World of Goo