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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.

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.

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).

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Macintosh owners and folks who use the Linux OS haven't been able to check out the Penumbra series of first person horror adventure games as one large title. But that's changing on Friday. Developer Frictional Games has announced that it will release The Penumbra Collection for Mac and Linux users on that day. The collection (Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the Penumbra: Requiem expansion) will be made available as one download rather than the original's "three downloads with three serials" version.

Beginning with the release on Friday and ending on Sunday you can download the Penumbra Collection for Mac and Linux for a mere $5. The price goes back up to its normal $20 on Monday.

Valve's Steam service has announced its regular weekend sale, cutting the prices on a couple of acclaimed horror themed action-adventure titles. All of the Penumbra games from developer Frictional Games have been cut 75 percent for this weekend only.

You can choose to buy Penumbra Black Plague Gold Edition (with the original game and the expansion Penumbra Requiem) or Penumbra Overture separately for $3.75 and $2.50, respectively. Or you can get both games in the Penumbra collectors pack for just $5. Either way it's a massive bargain. Frictional Games are currently working on their next horror themed game Unknown for release sometime in 2010.

The Penumbra Collection puts the entire psychological horror series into one box. It will include Penumbra: Overture, Penumbra: Black Plague and the recent expansion Penumbra: Requiem. Expect to dive into the mystery later this month when the collection releases.

Download HD Penumbra Collection Trailer (59 MB)
Download Penumbra: Black Plague Demo (133 MB)
Download Penumbra: Overture Demo for Windows (117 MB) and Mac (133 MB)

Gametap continues to offer its customers free games to check out. Today the download service offers up two free titles. One is Overlord, the 2007 released action-RPG where you get to play as a fantasy bad guy. The Triumph Studios-Codemasters game is available to play for free for one week only at Gametap. Available for free at any time is Penumbra Overture, the first game in the horror adventure series from developer Frictional Games.

Two more games are added to Gametap's paid premimum service: the stand alone expansion RTS game Supreme Commander Forged Alliance from Gas Powered Games and THQ and the fantasy fighting game Die by the Sword from Treyarch and Interplay. The latter includes the game's expansion pack Limb from Limb.

With their Penumbra game series retired for a while with the release of Penumbra: Requiem, developer Frictional Games is already in development of their next major game project. The company has launched a teaser site for the still unnamed game which will be a first person survival horror title set in an old castle the late 18th century.

Frictional Games that the title will have "all new technology and ideas to become the most advanced, content filled and creative game from our studio to date." The teaser site has some concept artwork from the game as well as a message that is in code that is almost certainly some clue as to the nature of the title. There's no word yet on a release date for the new game.

Frictional Games' Penumbra: Requiem, an expansion to the previously released Penumbra: Overture and Penumbra: Black Plague, will be released on August 27. The expansion will made available as an exclusive digital download at GamersGate.

Penumbra: Requiem will delve deeper into character Philip's explorations into the Tuurngait infection.

Frictional Games have released two games in their acclaimed Penumbra series of first person horror action-adventure games so far. Both Penumbra: Overture and Penumbra: Black Plague were released in retail stores as well as digital download versions. You can even purchase a special version of Penumbra: Overture that is designed to work with the Novint Falcon controller to "feel" the objects you interact with in the game world.

Today the game's publisher Paradox Interactive announced that it will offer a new Penumbra expansion that will be made available exclusively via digital download from Paradox's Gamersgate web site. The new expansion will be titled Requiem and according to Paradox's press release it is being designed to tie up loose ends that were a part of the first two titles.Can you trust your senses and figure out what's real and what's not? That is apparently the theme of Requiem so be prepared to be scared out of your...well, whatever it is you need to be scared out of. Pricing and a release date for Penumbra: Requiem have yet to be revealed.