World-of-Goo posts

The team at the Humble Indie Bundle have been generating a lot of money already with the second batch of games with its 'pay what you want" business model. But now the team has upped the anty. The Humble Indie Bundle 2 now includes all of the games from the first Humble Indie Bundle.

Yes, you can get all of the bundle's current games (Braid, Machinarium, Osmos, Cortex Command and Revenge of the Titans) plus all of the game's in the original bundle (World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Penumbra Overture, and Lugaru HD plus the freebie Samorset 2). People who have bought Bundle 2 can download the Bundle 1 games now. People who have yet to purchase Bundle 2 can get the Bundle 1 games if they pay more than the current average which is currently $7.35. Paying $7.35 to get a whopping 10 great indie games (plus one freebie) is still a massive bargain.

Microsoft is up to some more price cut tricks today on its Games For Windows Marketplace web site. A couple of weekends ago it offered up Age of Empires III for just 10 cents for one day. Today it has cut the price of yet another game pretty drastically.

That game is Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition. If you have yet to play what is truly one of the greatest games of all time you can now purchase and download the full version of Ion Storm's 2000 cyberpunk RPG for just 99 cents. The price lasts until 1 am Eastern time tonight. At the very least it will prepare you for the release of Deus Ex: Human Revolution in 2011.

In related news Games For Windows Marketplace also has World of Goo on sale for just $4.99. That price will last for the next week,

As promised last month, the OnLive streaming PC game service has started shipping pre-orders of its MicroConsole which lets folks who have a TV and a nearby wired internet connection play OnLive's selection of games on their TV set with an included wireless controller.

In addition to today's shipment announcement, OnLive revealed more details on its upcoming monthly flat rate pricing plan. The PlayPack option will actually start with people who get the MicroConsole. They will be able to play the games included in the PlayPack option for free in a beta test. The PlayPack option officially goes live for everyone on January 15 and will cost $9.99 a month. OnLive says over 40 games will be included in the PlayPack option when it goes live and will include the following titles:

Prince of Persia
NBA 2K10
Tomb Raider: Underworld
F.E.A.R. 2
Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.
Unreal Tournament 3
Vin Diesel Wheelman
LEGO Batman
Defense Grid Gold
Saw
World of Goo

In case you are wondering, OnLive will still have the option to let folks pay for individual games, including titles not included in the PlayPack option, in 3 and 5 day trials as well as full PlayPass versions

The big holiday one day sales over on Steam continue today. Here's what's on sale for the next 23 hours over at the PC game download site:

One day only game sales

Mount and Blade Warband - $7.50
Splinter Cell Conviction - $20.09
The Ball - $9.99
Street Fighter IV - $10.20
World of Goo - $2.50
Patrician IV - $10
The Orange Box (Half-Life 2; Half-Life 2 Episodes 1 and 2, Team Fortress 2 and Portal) - $7.50
Bit.Trip.Beat - $4.99

One day game gift pack sales

Osmos - $19.99 for 12 copies
Splinter Cell Conviction - $89.99 for six copies
Just Cause 2 - $59.99 for eight copies

Released over two years ago, the critical and sales success of developer 2D Boy's puzzle game World of Goo became a hallmark on the indie games scene, showing that a two man team could create a title that can reach a much bigger audience than the typical indie game. Now comes word that 2D Boy are thinking about doing a sequel to World of Goo.

The 2D Boy web site, as part of its announcement today that the original game would be ported over to the iPad, answered its own question of, "Will there be a World of Goo 2?" It's answer? "A second World of Goo is a possibility, and something we would enjoy working on." However it added, "A second World of Goo will need to feel like a perfect and appropriate continuation of the first game. No Red Bull Can levels or rapping Goo cutscenes, according to our official design doc."

If you wanted to get into the indie games scene but were afraid to do so, Direct2Drive has just revised its Indie Games Bundle sale for its customers. For a limited time you can get 10 of the most well known and acclaimed indie games in one shot for just $29.95. That's compared to a price of $134.50 if you had to buy each game individually.

The games in the bundle include World of Goo, Puzzlegeddon, Gish, The Maw, Braid, Cogs, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, Osmos, Machinarium and Crayon Physics Deluxe. All of the above games are good in our opinion and some are true classics. It's a deal that you don't have to steal.

The Humble Indie Bundle - a pack of six games available for whatever you want to pay for it - has now ended its deal, raking in over $1 million in a single week. This alone is impressive, but what is also cool is that about 30% went to charity. The developers made a detailed breakdown of all money received as well as money received after merchant costs (credit card fees, Paypal fees, etc) that can be viewed separately.

Along with this news comes another surprising tidbit. Out of the six games featured, four will be releasing their source code to the general public for budding game developers to pick through. The four games that are releasing their code are Aquaria, Lugaru HD, Gish, and Penumbra. Only Lugaru HD is currently available, but the other developers are busy converting their goods to open-source and will be releasing them soon! This is great for freeware communities, as all of these engines are worth working with.

As promised, the UK based Green Man Gaming PC game download site is officially online. The site's owners hope to launch a new business mode for downloadable games by offering customers a way to sell back their license key for games purchased on the site for credit to pay for future game purchases.

The service is localized just for UK customers (although anyone can purchase and download games from the site). They have a few games on the site that are priced at just one pence for a limited time. That includes games like World of Goo, Darwinia and Necrovision: Lost Company. In theory you could purchase these games and then sell them back to the site for credit at some point for far more than what you paid for the games.

Earlier this week we alerted you to the Humble Indie Bundle which lets you pay whatever you want to get five great indie game titles (World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Penumbra Overture, and Lugaru HD). Now with just under three days to go before the deal disappears, the bundle has generated over $560,000 in revenue as of this post. The average contribution is about $8 or so, but one anonymous contributor paid $1,000 for the bundle. Linux users have contributed the most per donation with an average of close to $14.

You still have two days and 23 hours to jump on this deal. Remember that you can also choose to put a portion of your money for the bundle to contribute to two charities (the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Child's Play).

[Via Blue's News]

Pay what you want has become the newest craze in the indie community, with developers offering the deal left and right. Now comes the best deal we've ever seen regarding this new payment scheme. Five classic indie games are available in a pay what you want bundle, and as a kicker, the bundle also includes two charities for the division of money. Altogether, the bundle is worth $80 if bought at standard prices for each game.

The games included in the pack are World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Penumbra Overture, and Lugaru HD. We've raved about most of these games on the site before, and with good reason. They are all incredibly good, and one of them (World of Goo) pioneered the pay what you want gimmick. The two charities involved in the deal are the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Child's Play. You can pay what you want and divide it however you want, from even among all involved to giving to a single developer or charity. You get all five games, free of DRM, regardless of who you give the money to.