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New Humble Indie Bundle Goes Live

Posted by Soulskill on from the keeping-humble-regular dept.

Physicser writes "The latest Humble Indie Bundle has gone live, consisting of Super Meat Boy, Shank, Jamestown, Bit.Trip Runner, and NightSky. Also, if you beat the average price, you receive Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles. As always, the games are DRM-free, and this is the initial Linux release for all seven. I'm also curious to see what will be added later on, as has been the tradition of the Humble Bundles."

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  1. One million! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have already surpassed the 930,000 $ mark within the first ten hours, will probably reach 1 million within 12h. Maybe slashdot helps it catapult to 2 million? Go Indies!

    1. Re:One million! by iviv66 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Sorry mate, won't be buying this bundle unless every game has a .deb package available.

      Just for reference, in this bundle Super Meat Boy and Bit.Trip Runner have .deb packages available. Shank is a bin. Jamestown and Gratuitous Space Battles are .tar.gz. NightSky and Cave Story+ are .zip

      Not entirely sure what any of that means, but hope its helpful for linux users.

    2. Re:One million! by RubberMallet · · Score: 5, Informative

      Most of the games on the previous Humble Bundles are available via Desura now, and I'd expect that the latest one will get Desura keys as well at some point (the Desura keys seem to lag behind a bit). Install Desura, grab your HB key from the HB site.. add key to Desura.. and it takes care of making your games work in whatever distro you use. I had loads of fiddly missing lib issues getting some of the games working (especially Crayon Physics) in Linux prior to doing it this way... now.. it's like using Steam... click.. install... click play... no drama.

  2. Ironically... by SomeGuyFromCA · · Score: 5, Informative

    This makes me less likely to buy indie games. I paid full price for Gratuitous Space Battles not six weeks ago.

    At least the Trine 2 page warns me: "Linux and DRM free versions will be added to Humble Store purchases in 2012." (Which is why I'm waiting on it. Screw Steam-spyware.)

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  3. Re:Why do I need a Steam key? by grumbel · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Humble Bundle doesn't need the Steam keys, they are just an optional addition, you can simply download the .bin/.exe/.tar.gz directly if you want.

  4. Indie Royale Bundle by grumbel · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those that have missed it: Seems like the Humble Bundle is getting a bit competitions, a few weeks ago the IndieRoyale Bundles got launched, they follow a similar model of multiple games for an almost-pay-what-you-want price (min around $3). it however doesn't have the charity and it only sometimes has Linux versions of the games. Also their game selections seems to be not so great most of the times, however they include a gem every now and then.