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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.

Features

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

There's not many games that we've played that manage to capture the feel of the movie Aliens so well, but this one definitely does it. Derelict is a tactical shooter where you control 4 marines and a CO against a horde of continually spawning mutants. The graphics are not the best, but the art design makes it irrelevant, thanks to the nice textures and spooky atmosphere. Sounds, music, controls, and concept are all wonderfully realized. There are 20 levels in the final game, and there's even a level editor for you to make your own levels to distribute. At about 37 megabytes, it's worth it for any fan of the movie Aliens or the game Space Hulk.

[Via IndieGames]