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The Humble Indie Bundle 7 launched today, offering Snapshot, Closure, Shank 2, Binding of Isaac with DLC, and Indie Game: The Movie. Beating the average also nets you Dungeon Defenders with DLC and Legend of Grimrock.
The Indie Royale "Xmas Bundle 2.0" has launched, packing together Colour Blind, Offspring Fling, Serious Sam: Double D and The Random Encounter, Puzzle Bots, and Little Kingdom.
A naughty hacker has busted into the database of S2's Heroes of Newerth, gaining access to account login information. If you've played the DotA 'em up and use a password shared with any other online account, you'll want to get changing those passwords and, honestly, start using individual passwords for each account.
Tripwire Interactive's support of Killing Floor has been jolly admirable, with regular free content updates and paid DLC releases which don't feel exploitative. After taking us to a frightful fairground for its summer event and a mutant hillbilly hideout at Halloween, the co-op survival shooter is blasting players to the Moon, of all places, in its latest 'Twisted Christmas' celebration.
Valve has kicked off the beta for it's Steam Community Market, which lets users exchange Steam Wallet funds for items. Currently the beta only supports Team Fortress 2 consumables.
Journey composer Austin Wintory has revealed that he is working on the music for Leisure Suit Larry HD, the Kickstarter-fueled reboot of the classic series.
Blizzard has spoken many times over the years about a console edition of Diablo 3 and publicly hired for such a project, but never confirmed it as an actual game we'll get to play one day. It does indeed have the action-RPG running on console now, it's confirmed, but even now Blizzard can't say whether or not it'll see the light of day.
If you missed Games Workshop's recent reissue of Space Hulk, or simply enjoy purging impure aliens from derelict space ships, good news! A new video game adaptation is in the works for PC, Mac and iOS, staying true to the classic turn-based Warhammer 40,000 board game but packing lovelies like a co-op mode and cross-platform play.
Tale of Tales has proved curiously controversial for a two-person team, attracting a remarkable amount of fury from dolts because of games like The Path and The Graveyard. Are games art? Are art games pretentious? Are Tale of Tales games games? Will you shut up with these inane questions? We've all grown up a little since, haven't we, so let's keenly await the launch of Bientôt l'été next week.
EVE Online has released its latest expansion, titled "Retribution," with an emphasis on the new bounty hunting system.
