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Defense Grid: The Awakening - My Favorite Standalone Tower Defense So Far

My review of Defense Grid: The Awakening, a great tower defense game with solid design, lots of content, and much-appreciated challenges and difficulty.

Defense Grid: The Awakening

Atom Zombie Smasher: Great, Unique, Difficult, and Fun...For Awhile

My review about Atom Zombie Smasher. I really enjoyed the gameplay but I have doubts about the game's replayability and staying power.

Atom Zombie Smasher

Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII Reviewed: Great RPGs

My dual reviews of Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII, two great retro RPGs available as a bundle. Cthulhu, which was developed second, is undoubtedly the better game, but Breath of Death is worth playing too.

Nehrim: Erothin

Minecraft 1.8 (Adventure Update) Trailer Released, Update "Leaked"

Information about the (intentional) "leak" of Minecraft 1.8, the first half of the Adventure Update. Also includes embedded official trailer and some of my early experiences playing after the update.

Minecraft 1.8 Adventure Update

Portal: No Escape - Amazing Live Action Portal Short Film

A short post simply to direct (more) attention to Dan Trachtenberg's short film "Portal: No Escape." Go watch right now (on YouTube in HD).

Portal: No Escape

Tech Tales

The 3rd Humble Indie Bundle launched today, offering 5 DRM-free, cross-platform indie games at whatever price you want. Pay what you want for Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVVVVV (2.0), Hammerfight, and And Yet It Moves. I don't know anything about Hammerfight, but the other games are all good. I don't really enjoy Cogs or And Yet It Moves (I already own both), but they are well-designed, interesting puzzle games. VVVVVV was somewhat short but very enjoyable, and it has just received a major update to 2.0. That update adds a level editor, some new level packs made by other developers (including Notch!), a new engine, and more.

As with previous bundles, you can customize the division of your payment between the game developers, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Child's Play, and Humble Bundle, Inc. (which pays for bandwidth, etc.). All the games are DRM-free, available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and can also be redeemed on Steam and Desura. The games would normally cost around $50; pay more, or pay less, but note that you will be shamed if you try to pay under $1.

This Humble Bundle is available for another two weeks. There have already been around 20000 purchases totaling around $86,000, with an average purchase of $4.25. As usual, the average Linux user pays more ($10.46) than the average Mac user ($5.38) who pays more than the average Windows user ($3.50), although Windows users are the majority of customers.

View the truly awesome trailer below and then go purchase your Humble Bundle.

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