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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.

Direct2Drive's daily sales even continues by offering another 2K Games-based PC game on the price chopping block. For the next day or so you can pick up Gearbox Software's first person shooter Borderlands Game Of The Year Edition (with the original game and all four mini-expansions) for just $24.95, a 50 percent price cut.

Impulse's daily sales event is for Gish, the cool platform action game from one of the creators of Super Meat Boy. You can get the game for today only for $9.95, another 50 percent price cut. And don't forget that Deus Ex Game of the Year Edition is just 99 cents from now until 1 am Eastern time.

You can add another indie game trying out the "pay what you want" business model that has become more and more popular lately. This time developer Chronic Logic is offering its 2D platformer game Gish for any price a person feels like paying for the game. The title was first released in 2004 and was offered as one of the games in the Humble Indie Bundle earlier this year that also used the "pay what you want" model.

As usual with these kinds of deals there is a minimal payment for getting Gish. In this case it depends on which payment system you use. Paypal or Amazon payments require a $1 minimal fee while payments from SWREG require a $5 minimal payment. A new version of Gish is also available for download that adds 64-bit Linux support, over 40 community levels and removes DRM set-ups.

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.

With one more full day to go unti Humble Indie Bundle deal is no more, the special deal where you can pay whatever you want for five indie PC game titles (World of Goo, Gish, Aquaria, Penumbra Overture, and Lugaru HD), the bundle has raised over $740,000. Now the bundle has added yet another game to the mix as developer Amanita Design has donated their game Samorost 2 to anyone who donates to the bundle.

There's also a note on the Wolfire game blog about how much of the game bundle has been pirated. The site itself has little copy protection and all of the games are DRM-free. The blog estimates that over 25 percent of the games have been pirated, as "users download from shared links from forums and other places without actually contributing anything." So why pirate these games when you can pay as little as one cent to get all of the titles? The blog has its own speculations including that some people are just too lazy to put in their credit card number versus just downloading the games via unprotected links. There won't be much of an effort to go after these pirates, with the blog saying, " . . . we will just focus on making cool games, having great customer service, and hope for the best. It sure seems to be working right now"

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.

The Direct2Drive download site has offered up bundles of a number of indie games for limited times on a couple of previous occasions. Now the service is doing it again as it puts together 10 of the most well known indie games together in one downloadable package from now until March 12.

The bundle costs just $29.95 which is a massive savings compared to the $134.50 that you would have to spend for each game separately. The list includes the puzzle game Cogs which just won $100,000 in GameStop's first annual Indie Game Challenge. The full list of games in the bundle is below:

Braid
Osmos
World of Goo
Cogs
Machinaruim
The Maw
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Aaaaa!
Puzzlegeddon
Gish

Direct2Drive has been offering a selection of their downloadable PC game library for $5 for the past few weeks. Today the site is offering a selection of titles from indie game developers for just 5 bucks from now until next Monday. Many of these games have had their prices cut by as much as 66 percent in this sale. The genres range from puzzle titles to RPGs to tower defense titles to space strategy games. If you have never tried these games before this is the perfect time to start:

Mount and Blade
World of Goo
Defense Grid: The Awakening
Sword of the Stars
Cogs
Light of Altair
The Path
Bridge Construction Set
Gish
Zatikon