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Earlier this month Torchlight, the acclaimed downloadable action-RPG from Runic Games, made its retail brick-and-mortar debut in stores. Now another game that was previously available only via download is being made available in stores as well.

This time its the PC version of Braid, the critically acclaimed puzzle-platformer from designer Jonathan Blow. The PC download able version was first made available last April. MumboJumbo, the well known casual game developer/publisher, is handling the retail release of Braid which should happen sometime later this month. So if you can't handle downloading a game and have to buy your titles in a store, you can count on Braid to be made available at Wal Mart and other outlets for $19.99.

The acclaimed puzzle-platformer Braid was just released for the PC last week and today word has leaked out that the PC port has something the Xbox 360 version does not have: A level editor. Jonathan Blow, the creator of the game, confirmed that launching the game with the "-editor" parameter, and then pressing the F11 button on your keyboard brings up the editor.

In a post on the Steam message board Blow also states that he plans to " . . . .post some documentation for the editor" in a few days after releasing a new version of Braid that fixes some post-release bugs. In addition, a tool will also be release that will allow new Photoshop-based graphics to be put in user-created Braid levels.

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It's one of the most acclaimed Xbox Live Arcade games ever made and after months of waiting the PC version has finally arrived. We are speaking of Braid, the puzzle-platform game with a temporal twist that was mostly created by Jonathan Blow. The PC version of Braid is now available to download and purchase for $14.99 from a variety of sites including Impulse, Greenhouse, Steam and Gamersgate.

With a unique looking illustrative art style Braid uses time manipulation in order for the player to solve the many different puzzles in the game. If you don't want to dive head first into purchasing the game a demo has also been released and can be grabbed right here at Big Download.

Ah, typos. They are fun aren't they? We all make them and we get embarrassed when we get caught doing them. Braid's creator Jonathan Blow must be blushing right now with today's announcement in his blog of a delay in the PC release of his temporal-themed down downloadable game.

Originally set for release on March 31, Blow states that the game has to deal with a few extra bugs that have cropped up during testing and will delay its release 10 days . . .until August 10. Now, we are pretty sure that he meant to write "April 10" so until he surprises us with some kind of temporal flux that makes 10 days so long it extends an extra four months we will assume he meant April 10 as the new release date.

The highly anticipated digital release of the PC port of Braid just found another outlet for users to download it when it's ready. Valve announced today that Jonathan Blow's temporal themed puzzle-action game will be released via Valve's Steam client platform on March 31 for $14.99. Previously the PC port was announced as being made available on Stardock's Impulse platform for the same date and price.

Valve states the Steam version of Braid will support Steamworks features which will allow things such as achievements and community features to be added to their version of the game. Mac owners will get their version of Braid via Hothouse Games.

Late in 2008 it was announced that the PC version of the acclaimed Xbox Live Arcade title Braid would be pushed back until sometime in the first quarter of the year. Today Stardock has announced that it is now taking pre-orders for the PC version of Braid to be released via their Impulse service.

The PC version will cost $19.95 and will basically be a port of the temporal themed platformer-puzzle game created by Jonathan Blow. Stardock currently has listed a March 31 release date for the game on their Impulse web site. However as we all know release dates can and do change. There's no word yet what or even if other download services will also have Braid available to download.