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We here at Big Download love indie games. From telling you about them, playing them, or offering downloads for them, we are all about helping lesser-known developers get their name out into the world. Each week on Saturday, we'll give you the Indie Wrap-up, a collection of all the indie news stories and features during the previous week.

There was no big features this week, unfortunately. Most of our staff was gone at E3, after all! Just Freeware Friday was this week. However, the TOJam 2008 competition recently wrapped up, so there's a ton of games that were released this week! Dwarf Fortress also finally got the first update in the Army Arc, adding battles and wars to the historical records of the game.

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Freeware Friday: Off-Road Velociraptor Safari James Murff takes Freeware Friday to a new place: browser games.

There's just something charming about a simple game with a deadpan serious story that makes you chuckle at its absurdity. Ainevoltas 2 is one of those games. A side-scroller, it's also got a fair bit of role-playing and story elements. However, you won't find the story or role-playing in this that you see in games like Castlevania. The RPG elements are simple, requiring you to only upgrade 4 attributes (Health, Strength, Recover, Jump). The story elements are simple but effective as well. With decidedly retro art and sound mixed in with this simple gameplay, there's just something that grabs us about Ainevoltas 2 that most games do not.

[Via TIGSource]