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Yep, it's yet another PC game sales news post (hey, they are time sensitive). This time we want to alert you to a new indie games bundle deal from developer Lazy 8 Studios. The deal will either net you six or 12 acclaimed indie PC game titles for one low price. You can actually take your pick of two bundles that are each priced at $19.99 each, which is a savings of at least 70 percent off.

One bundle has the titles AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, BrainPipe, Cogs , Captain Forever, Saira and Space Giraffe. The other bundle contains And Yet It Moves, Auditorium, Osmos, Aztaka, Eufloria, and Machinarium. If you can't decide you can get both bundles and save even more money overall. The mega bundle prices all 12 games together for $29.99. The bundle sale ends on September 22.

Today's Mac Monday is a two-fer. We're taking a look at Brainpipe, by Shrapnel Games, and Ranch Rush, by Big Fish Games. These two games could not be more different from each other, and thus, make the perfect two to base a two-fer around.

Essentially, Brainpipe is a flying journey through your brain's convolutions, rendered into trippy, hallucinogenic colors. Ranch Rush is a farm management simulator. Both games are fairly addictive, and both are inexpensively priced. What's it all about, Alfie? Read on to discover the hideous secret!

With the IGF finalists announced, game makers only have a short while longer to find out the best of the best in indie games from last year. From the best overall game to the one with the most impressive art, there's several different categories for indie game designers to aspire to be the top of. This week we're going to take a look at a few of the games that have made it to the finals.

While there are many important categories in any competition, most revolve around the visual and gameplay aspects of a game. When a competition includes an audio category, some dismiss it as merely a category for the audiophiles. But audio has more to do with a game than most people realize. Audio is part of what binds a game together into a coherent whole and helps define it. Great audio can turn a decent game into a phenomenal one, and bad audio can take that same game and make it terrible. It is often overlooked, but not by the IGF judges! Here's five of the best entries for those that know that audio plays a pretty big role.