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Humble Bundle milestones: $50M to charity, $100M to devs
Humble Bundle has raised more than $50 million for charity since launching its first sale in May 2010 – the Humble Indie Bundle, as it was called back then. That bundle introduced the idea of "pay what you want" pricing and offered customers power over the allocation of their payments, plus the chance to do something good for charity. Specifically for that first promotion, it was the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. "When my co-founder Jeff [Rosen] first contacted the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play for our first promotion, no one knew who we were," Humble co-founder John Graham tells Joystiq. "After pitching the confusing idea, in probably too much detail, he was cut off: 'So let me get this straight, you are basically asking if you can give us money? Sure!'" Humble Bundle now supports a roster of more than 50 charitable organizations and has expanded with weekly bundles, ebook bundles, mobile bundles and the Humble Store, which by itself raised $1 million for charity by June 2014. That very first Humble Bundle raised roughly $400,000 for charity – $200,000 each for EFF and Child's Play – at the time an "incomprehensible" amount to John Graham. "It produced a lot of pressure to keep going," he says. "Our potential to raise another $400,000 for charity felt like a moral obligation. Raising more than two orders of magnitude beyond that goal was not something we ever considered."
Humble Weekly Bundle shoots for the stars
Brace yourself for an influx of neon, spaceships and robots in the Humble Weekly Bundle: Sci-Fi Edition. Available for any price you wish is Velocity Ultra, Cosmic DJ (Early Access game) and QUBE. For $6 or more, add in The Fall, Strike Suit Infinity and Strike Vector. The Last Federation is available for $15 or more. These purchases include the soundtracks for Velocity Ultra, QUBE, Cosmic DJ and The Last Federation. As is the case with these delicious Humble Bundles, part of the cash goes to charity, this time Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Also, pay at least $1 and grab Steam keys for all of the games in the bundle. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Simulators 2: Universe Sandbox, Tropico 4
Simulator games aren't ways to escape reality – they exist to make real life better. Did you always want to be a train conductor, only to find that plan derailed by the demands of money and opportunity? Simulators have you covered. Do you wish you were a cat? Done. Now all your dreams are true, and they're part of your real life. The Humble Weekly Bundle: Simulators 2 offer live now has three tiers of games that mimic reality: First, for any price you wish, there's Universe Sandbox, Out of the Park Baseball 14, and Cook, Serve, Delicious. For $6 or more, add Turbo Dismount and Tropico 4: Steam Special Edition. $10 or more gets you Euro Truck Simulator 2 plus the Fantasy Paint Jobs Pack, which is exclusive to the bundle. Purchases this week benefit the Electronic Frontier Foundation and The American Red Cross.
Humble Weekly: Stacking, Edge of Space, Windforge
This Humble Weekly Bundle is a lot like an onion (or an ogre, or a cake) – it has a few layers. First note: It's hosted by Gamepedia and Curse. Available to pick up for any price you want is Windforge, Stacking, ReignMaker (plus its inspiration, Tower of Elements), Paranautical Activity and a key for the Strife closed beta. Pay $6 or more and get Darkout, Signs of Life and a 30-day subscription to Curse Premium, a service that grants users perks on Curse-owned websites. Throw down $10 or more and snag Lifeless Planet and Edge of Space. For $36 or more, you'll also get the "Indie Appreciation Pack," which includes a t-shirt, a Curse wristband, and Curse and Gamepedia vinyl stickers. Money spent on this week's Humble Bundle benefits, in part, the IndieCade Foundation and First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational supplements to children and areas in need. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly strategy style: Sang-froid, Space Hulk, Ironclad
The Humble Weekly Bundle is discounted strategically this time around, featuring Sang-Froid: Tales of Werewolves, Stronghold Crusader Extreme HD and Cubetractor for any price you want, and then Unity of Command: Stalingrad Campaign, Eador: Masters of the Broken World and Space Hulk for $6 or more. Finally, there's Ironclad Tactics for $9 or more. If you didn't catch that, these are all strategy games. Pay $1 or more and get Steam keys for the applicable games, too. This round of Humble sales benefits the American Red Cross and Child's Play Charity.
Humble Weekly: Mark of the Ninja, King Arthur's Gold
Stretch out your clicking fingers and get ready for some mad platforming action in the latest Humble Weekly Sale. Available for the week for any price you want are Shank 2, Blocks That Matter and Bit.Trip Runner. For $6 or more, grab Runner 2, Megabyte Punch and Fly'n. Add in King Arthur's Gold and Mark of the Ninja: Special Edition for $10 or more. All of these games individually would run $119. They're all either DRM-free downloads or on Steam, except for Fly'n, which is Steam only. As always, split your payment among the developers, Humble itself or charity, in whichever percentage breakdown you desire. Charities this time around are the American Red Cross and Child's Play. This week, Humble launched a new way for you to get your cheap-game fix with Humble Daily Bundles. Today, May 15, grab The Banner Saga, an artwork pack and The Banner Saga: Factions for $15 or more. Humble will run new daily bundles through May 26. [Image: Humble]
Humble Weekly Co-Op: Awesomenauts, Risk of Rain
Find some friends and then grab these games in the Humble Weekly Co-Op bundle, some for any amount of cash you want, others for a little more, and a bunch of games for even more. Pay anything you want for Awesomenauts, Sanctum 2 and Wanderlust: Rebirth; spend $6 or more to add Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken, Orcs Must Die 2 Complete Pack and Aces Wild: Manic Brawling Action. Pay $10 to get Risk of Rain. Since this one is a co-op pack, there are two extra options to pump up the fun volume: $17 or more grants you two full bundles, and $30 or more gives you four bundles. This week, the Humble Bundle benefits Child's Play Charity and American Red Cross. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Sale: Dustforce, VVVVVV, Cave Story+, Limbo
The Humble Weekly Sale is bursting with a dozen of games this time around, and five of them are available for whatever price you want: Thomas Was Alone, Puzzle Bots, Dustforce, VVVVVV and Cave Story+. Add six games for $6: Reus, Limbo, Cthulhu Saves the World, Mutant Mudds Deluxe, Lone Survivor and Element4l. The final game, Teslagrad, is locked under the $10 barrier. This Humble Weekly also has a round of physical merchandise from nerd-merch site Fangamer. For $40, get a shirt and a keychain, and for $100, add on another shirt, a sticker pack and three posters. Plus all the games, of course. Part of the cash in this bundle goes toward the charity Direct Relief. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Sale: Guacamelee, Surgeon Simulator, State of Decay
The Humble Weekly Sale features a lineup of PewDiePie-approved games, with sales helping out the Save the Children charity. Available for anything you want is Surgeon Simulator 2013, Guacamelee Gold Edition and QWOP for Android. Up for $6 or more is SpeedRunners on Early Access and Garry's Mod, at $10 or more unlock Probably Archery, and for $15 or more you'll receive State of Decay. All games are on Steam, except for "QWOP for Android." That one's on – wait for it – Android. [Image: Humble]
Humble Weekly Sale: Hotline Miami, Super Hexagon, Little Inferno
The Humble Weekly Sale offers Little Inferno, Super Hexagon and Natural Selection 2 for any price you want, and Critter Crunch, PixelJunk Monsters Ultimate and Hotline Miami for $6 or more. It's the Hot, Darwinian, Geometrical, Vermin-Ridden Creature Feature in Florida. Pay more than $1 and grab the games on Steam, too. In this Humble Weekly Sale, customers can throw their money to the developers, Humble itself and two charities, Watsi and Child's Play Charity.
Humble Weekly Sale pays tribute to open-source games, charities
The Humble Weekly Sale offers a slew of open-source games for PC, Mac, Linux and Android, plus their soundtracks. Games up for grabs for any price you want are Magical Diary, NEO Scavenger, Offspring Fling and Planet Stronghold. Pay $6 or more to get Anodyne, Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten, Evoland and Incredipede. If you throw down at least $1, you'll get the applicable games on Steam (every one except for Planet Stronghold). Customers can send their money to a lineup of open-source charities. The Humble Weekly open-source sale runs through Thursday, April 3 at 11AM PT. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Sale gets rhythmic with Audiosurf, Bit.Trip Runner
Paging Dr. Beat: Humble Bundle's latest Humble Weekly Sale requires a solid sense of rhythm, offering a pay-what-you-want collection of games that test your ability to play along to a backing music track. The $1-minimum package includes Empty Clip Studios' rhythm-driven shoot-'em-up Symphony, Iridium Studios' music-themed RPG Sequence, and Gaijin Games' platformer Bit Trip Runner. Pay more than $6 for the compilation and you'll also get the custom track-driven puzzler Audiosurf, twin-stick arena shooter Beat Hazard Ultra, and reverse-shmup Retro/Grade. The "Rhythm Games" Humble Weekly Bundle will remain available through March 27. [Image: Cold Beam Games]
Humble Weekly Sega sale offers 19 new and classic games
The Humble Weekly Sale has gone Sega crazy, offering 19 games from the company's classic and modern eras, this time broken into three pay walls. Pay $1 or more for Alpha Protocol, Company of Heroes, Rome: Total War and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Rabbit. Throw down $6 or more for Typing of the Dead: Overkill, Binary Domain, Renegade Ops, Medieval 2: Total War and a pack of 10 classic Sega Genesis games. Pay $15 and add Total War: Shogun 2. All games come with Steam keys for PC. Customers in Germany will swap out Typing of the Dead for Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed. Purchases go toward developers, Humble and a round-up of charities: Make-A-Wish Foundation, Special Effect, GamesAid, Whale & Dolphin Conservation, Willow Foundation and GamesAid. The sale ends on Thursday, March 20 at 11AM PT. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Sale spotlights PopCap with Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies
This week's Humble Weekly Sale focuses on casual games developer extraordinaire PopCap Games, serving up downloadable copies of Peggle, Plants vs. Zombies, and other favorites plucked from the studio's back catalog. Buyers who pay at least $1 for the bundle will receive Steam and Origin copies of PopCap's pachinko-puzzler hybrid Peggle, match-three gem-buster Bejeweled 3, word-stringing puzzle game Bookworm, hidden-object adventure Escape Rosecliff Island, and sealife evolution sim Feeding Frenzy Deluxe. Chip in more than $6 and you'll also get the Game of the Year Edition of PopCap's tower defense strategy game Plants vs. Zombies, DLC expansion Peggle Nights, and color-matching puzzler Zuma's Revenge. PopCap owner Electronic Arts is donating all bundle proceeds to The V Foundation for Cancer Research and the Melanoma Research Alliance. [Image: Humble Bundle / PopCap]
Humble Weekly Sale gets adventurous with Jack Keane, Edna and Harvey
Humble Bundle's latest Humble Weekly Sale is aimed squarely at fans of point-and-click adventure games, offering up a bounty of twelve genre favorites from The Adventure Company and Daedalic Entertainment. All buyers receive downloadable copies of The Adventure Company's Dead Reefs, A Vampire's Tale, Safecracker, and Aura: Fate of the Ages. Pay more than $6 and you'll also get Dark Fall, Dark Fall 2, The Book of Unwritten Tales, The Critter Chronicles, and Jack Keane 2, along with Daedalic Entertainment's Deponia and Edna and Harvey. Big-spenders may opt for the $15-and-above purchase tier, which includes all featured games and a bonus Deluxe Digital Edition copy of The Adventure Company's recently released The Raven: Legacy of a Master Thief. This week's bundle offerings will remain available through February 27. [Image: Humble Bundle]
Humble Weekly Codemasters sale: Overlord, Operation Flashpoint
The Humble Weekly Sale is Codemasters crazy, offering four games (and one piece of DLC) from the studio's backlog for any price you want, plus three more games for $6 or more. The "pay anything" games are Overlord (and the Raising Hell DLC), Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising and Rise of the Argonauts. The $6 or more games are Dirt Showdown, Dirt 3 and Overlord 2. All games are PC and on Steam. The charity that you can send all your money to this time around is Special Effect, a UK organization that helps people with all kinds of disabilities play video games. Keep in mind that some of these games use Games for Windows Live, a service that is quickly becoming extinct. Dirt 3's GFWL systems are replaced with Steamworks, but Codemasters has no comment about its plans for both Operation Flashpoint games in this week's bundle.
Humble Roguelike Weekly Sale offers six ways to die for $6
The Humble Weekly Sale is feeling lethal and unforgiving, offering six roguelikes for the tempting price of "basically nothing." Yes, these products will kill you, over and over and over again – but they're on sale. You can't beat that. Three of the games are available for any price you want: Paranautical Activity (Early Access game), Dungeons of Dredmor Complete and Hack, Slash Loot. The remaining three games are thrown in if you pay $6 or more: The Binding of Isaac plus Wrath of the Lamb DLC, Teleglitch: Die More Edition Guns and Tunes, and Sword of the Stars: The Pit Gold Edition. This bundle seems to be priced according to "complexity of name." Don't worry though – they will all kill you. At a discount.
Humble Weekly Sale: Bohemia Interactive madness
The Humble Weekly Sale is ready to rumble with a lineup of Bohemia Interactive games: Arma 2, Take on Helicopters, UFO: Afterlight, Alpha Prime, Arma: Gold Edition and Arma Tactics. Those are all "pay what you want," but throw down $6 or more and add Carrier Command: Gaea Mission and ARMA 2: Operation Arrowhead. DayZ, the Arma series mod, is free on Steam but requires Arma 2 and Operation Arrowhead, so basically you're getting DayZ in this deal, too. The standalone DayZ developed by Dean Hall and Bohemia is on its way, and the Early Access version sold more than 1 million copies in a month.
Humble Weekly Sale: Killing Floor, Zeno Clash, Rock of Ages
You don't need an atlas to find the Humble Weekly sale, with games so ace you may just fall in love with them, from Atlus Games, Ace Team and Tripwire Interactive. Games for any price you wish are Zeno Clash, Zeno Clash 2, Killing Floor and Dwarfs!?. Pay $6 or more and you'll net Rock of Ages and Rising Storm. All games come with Steam keys and every one except for Dwarfs!? includes its soundtrack. Whatever you decide to pay, it can be split among the developers, Humble Bundle and two charities: Child's Play and the American Red Cross.
Humble Weekly bounces by 8 Pinball FX games, over 20 tables total
Are your flipper fingers getting rusty? Do you need a last-minute Thanksgiving present for Great Aunt Cheryl? Are Thanksgiving presents even a thing? Humble Bundle has those first two problems covered with the Zen Studios weekly sale, which includes more than 20 pinball tables spread across eight games. Pay what you want for the following Pinball FX2 games: Core Pack, Classic Pack, Earth Defense Table, Paranormal Table and Epic Quest Table. Pay $6 or more to also snag the Marvel Pinball: Avengers Chronicles Pack, Star Wars Pack and Marvel Pinball Original Pack. All of the packs are available for PC via Steam. Payments for the Pinball FX weekly sale are split, however you choose, among Zen Studios, Humble Bundle and two charities, Watsi and American Red Cross. Humble is currently donating to the American Red Cross Typhoon Appeal to provide food, shelter and emotional support to people in the Philippines affected by Typhoon Haiyan. Remember Humble Bundle also has the Humble Mobile Bundle 3 right now, which includes Android premieres of Ridiculous Fishing and Swordigo. And there's the new Humble Store, which hosts crazy daily deals on a broad swathe of indie games, today including the Giana Sisters Twisted Bundle, the Magicka Collection and one of our favorite brawlers of the year, Foul Play, among others.
