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Last year, developer Hello Games announced their plans to release Joe Danger, a downloadable mix of a motorcycle racing game with some Mario-style game design. The title got a lot of attension but earlier this year it was announced that Joe Danger would be released as a PS3 exclusive.

However, Hello Games didn't rule out the game showing up on other platforms as it told our sister site Joystiq at the time. Now the ESRB web site reveals that Joe Danger has indeed been rated for the PC in addition to the PS3. While it may not be released at the same time as the PS3 version it's looking like Joe Danger will be available to download for our hard drives at some point.

The Independent Games Festival awards a lot of stuff on their own and they will do so again next month during the 2010 Game Developers Conference, However one of their awards, the Vision Award, is given out with the help of the PC game download site Direct2Drive. The award gives $10,000 to a game that has "new ideas and concepts that will help spark innovation in gaming".

The five finalists this year for the second annual award include games about a daredevil cyclist, a magic drawing device and a living piece of meat. We will see which one of the five games below gets the Vision Award during the IGF 2010 ceremonies on March 11.

• HurricaneX2
• Joe Danger
• Max and the Magic Marker
• Nyxquest: Kindred Spirits
• Super Meat Boy

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.

It's time for the final, and most important, category in the IGF. The Seamus McNally Grand Prize holds the largest cash reward and prestige out of any category, and for good reason. Here are games that epitomize polished perfection, and whoever wins the grand prize is sure to find publishers knocking on their door for an exclusive deal. Every game in the grand prize category this year was in one of the other minor cateogries, which is not particularly shocking, even tif it does not happen all that often. If you look back upon previous years, there's normally one game that makes it to the grand prize that doesn't quite fit anywhere else. This year, that's not the case. These games are the best of the best, and they deserved to be honored.

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.

The games which truly exhibit technical excellence in the indie realm are often praised beyond all potential comparison. After all, technical advances here such as HDR lighting aren't the real technical advances. It's things that alter the gameplay in interesting ways while still being smooth and presentable that really excite indie gamers. It's interesting how graphics advances are praised as advances in visuals, not in technical creation, where other things are. Here's five games that just can't fit in any other category at the IGF thanks to their unrelenting technical improvements.

He's Joe Danger. He's a devil-may-care daredevil who likes to do outrageous stunts and do them a lot. Kind of like Super Dave Osborne but without all the crashing (we hope). Joe Danger is also the star of the newly revealed action-stunt game with the title (wait for it) Joe Danger.

The game is the creation of newly revealed UK game developer Hello Games (hello to you too . . .nice to meet you). The team's members come from several well known developers in that country including Criterion Games, Climax, Kuju and others. Judging on Joe Danger's first screenshots it looks to be a title that doesn't take itself too seriously with a colorful art style and what looks like fun arcade-style game play. The downloadable game is set for release for the PC and other platforms sometime in 2010.