Far be it from me to tell you how to spend your money and your time, but you really should check out the Humble Indie Game Bundle. The download pack for PC and Mac contains five award-winning indie games (World of Goo, Aquaria, Lugaru HD, Gish, Penumbra: Overture), and cost whatever you want to pay... and it's for charity. So this is the perfect opportunity to give some indie games a spin and help people.
As far as the price -- this is a shocking rebuke to the principles of Capitalism where the producers of the games are letting the consumers name their own price. But before you're like "Sweet! Five games for a penny!" remember -- the money goes to charity, specifically, anything you give is split between the five games' developers and Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Both groups are doing very good, gamer-centric work in the world, so you really should dig deep, as they say. You can choose how to split the money, too. So if you totally hate Freedom, sick kids and Aquaria, screw the EFF, Child's Play and Aquaria out of their share! That'll show them!
So far, over $200,000 has been donated/spent on the bundle, with the average contribution at $7.87. Seems like a pretty low average at first, but once you figure in all the drainers who pony up a cent, it's actually reasonable.
Anyway, check out the official site for more details.
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Ronit
CAREFUL!!!!
The Revenge of the Titans game has a virus called Packed.Generic.205 which was picked up by Norton on my PC. DO NOT DOWNLOAD! I'm trying to report it to the website as well.
enissor
Yeah g4 doesnt know how to report PC related things.
its For linux to and you can divide it how you want to
Madd_the_Sane
Another point of interest: the games are also available for Linux (x86) as well.
Madd_the_Sane
It's important to note that it is only for one week, and has been going since Tuesday. So the last day to contribute/buy the games is May 11th, 2010
IroniclyTrue
Actually the concept of paying whatever you want isn't anti-capitalist. Capitalism actually works on the principle that, under optimal conditions, aggregate consumer demand sets price. In other words, this lets us act as individuals instead of a collective.
Noosebound_Ned
I gave. Wish I could have given more but being on a college student's budget takes it's toll sometimes. This is probably the coolest charitable donation I've ever given though. Really excited about the games, even though I already own World of Goo.
horseflesh
You're mistaken in the little article here, you can split up the money any way you choose. The options, all for charity, and all for developers and split evenly exist, plus the option to divide it up how you choose. But very cool stuff.
Hawks282
It's all for a good cause I'll probably do something like $100 for the bundle.
Please don't shrug you shoulders and assume someone else will do their part therefore you don't have to, we all should give back to those in need.
Think about it before you put the idea out of your mind.
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