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Humble Indie Bundle V Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the linux-is-winning-again dept.

New submitter Splintercat writes "The Humble Indie Bundle V has just been released, featuring Psychonauts, LIMBO, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and Bastion for Windows, OSX and Linux. Ubuntu software center support has also been added as a method of downloading."

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  1. Pretty good bundle by tocsy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Worth it for Psychonauts alone, if you don't have it. I'd never heard of any of the other games but I've been told they're all pretty spectacular.

    1. Re:Pretty good bundle by dyingtolive · · Score: 5, Informative

      Amnesia is amazing. I really need to go back and finish it. Sword and Sworcery is... interesting, but the soundtrack is pretty decent if you're in to that kind of thing.

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  2. Yes, I'm going to say it again by guises · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All right, this has been said to death but what the hell: You, yes you, need to play Psychonauts. It is a game that every single person needs to play, and here it is on every major platform, DRM free, for $.01 (if that's what you want to pay). No excuses any more.

    Suggestion: the game plays better with a control pad, so consider acquiring one of those if you don't have one already.

  3. More bundles by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you're into indie game bundles. There are currently several other active bundles:
    Groupees Build a Bundle
    Indie Gala
    Indie Royale Graduation Bundle
    Bundle in a Box

  4. Cross platform via wine by ProteusMoteus · · Score: 5, Informative

    Limbo on Linux is a wine bottle that runs with very poor performance. Trying to improve performance via the latest version of wine exposes a recent bug (shader model 3.0). Psychonauts on Linux is a real icculus port, but is just a wine bottle on Mac.

    Don't consider wine compatibility as the type of support for Mac/Linux that I expected from the Humble Indie Bundle.

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    1. Re:Cross platform via wine by MasterPatricko · · Score: 5, Interesting

      disappointing, but they have an excuse, don't know how valid it really is:

      from the FAQ:

      Q: Why is Limbo for Linux a wrapper?
      A: Unfortunately the audio for Limbo is middle-ware which could not be properly ported.

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