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Humble Bundle 8: Jack Lumber, Aaaaa!!!, Little Inferno, Gemini Rue
Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 is live now with a hefty offering of games on four platforms: PC, Mac, Linux and Android. At the price of "anything," this bundle offers Little Inferno, Gemini Rue, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome and Jack Lumber, but you can pay more than the average to snag Hero Academy and Anomaly 2. All games come with Steam keys if you pay more than $1. This is the Linux debut of the chess-like strategy game Hero Academy, the Android and Linux debut of Aaaaa!!!, and the Android, Mac and Linux debut of Wadjet Eye's dystopian adventure Gemini Rue. Proceeds from Humble Bundle PC and Android 8 are split among Humble Bundle, the participating developers and charity, in a formula that you get to decide. And yes, there will be more games before the bundle ends in two weeks. Guaranteed.
Game Music Bundle 5: Monaco, FTL, Fez, Gunpoint, more
If you recently binged on EA's Humble Origin Bundle of AAA games, Game Music Bundle 5 might help you recall the finer moments of some recent indie highlights. Game Music Bundle 5's pay-what-you-want pricing strategy is comparable to that of the Humble Bundles, but proceeds exclusively help musicians this time around. Any donation below $10 nets you the soundtracks for Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine, FTL: Faster Than Light, FEZ, Gunpoint, World of Goo, and Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded. Upping the ante to $10 or more grants the previously mentioned soundtracks plus additional music from FEZ, Monaco, Frog Fractions, Little Inferno, Super Panda Adventures, Marbel Time, Hero of Many, Me and My Dinosaur 2, Drox and Anodyne. Holy music, right? Beyond the offered albums, prizes are available to reward the highest donations. The eight most generous contributors will receive a Steam key for Monaco and a promotional poster for the game. The top five will earn the Monaco key as well as a copy of the Leisure Suit Larry score signed by composers Austin Wintory and Al Lowe. Lastly, the king of donations will win the previous prizes as well as a FEZ shirt signed by Disasterpeace, composer of FEZ's soundtrack.
Humble Indie Bundle 8 serves up Hotline Miami, Proteus, more
The Humble Indie Bundle 8 launched today, offering up downloadable Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Thomas Was Alone, Awesomenauts, Little Inferno, Dear Esther, and Capsized as part of its pay-what-you-want base package. Buyers who beat the average purchase price (currently around $5) will also receive Hotline Miami and Proteus. The package additionally includes a free Awesomenauts character skin; if you ever wanted to dress up as a chicken while playing a side-scrolling MOBA, today is the day that your dreams become reality. All games are available as DRM-free downloads, and Steam keys are included. Humble 8 also marks the first time that Dear Esther, Thomas Was Alone, Little Inferno, Capsized, and Awesomenauts are available for Linux. The Humble Indie Bundle 8 will be available through June 14.
Little Inferno out on Mac
Little Inferno arrived on iOS in January. It's a wicked, little satirical adventure about burning toys that's gotten a lot of critical acclaim. Now, the game is available on the Mac. You can pick it up directly from the developer Tomorrow Corporation, or grab it on Steam or Gamersgate. Tomorrow Corporation says it's also working on an iOS version that's designed to work with older hardware, so the game will soon be playable on the iPhone 4 and fourth-gen iPod touch models as well. There's also a Linux version in the plans. I haven't played much of Little Inferno, but the reviews on it are really great, and it looks like a creepy, yet moving take on consumerism and "play" itself. And, of course, great games are always welcome on the Mac platform. [via Joystiq]
Little Inferno blazes onto Mac
Little Inferno is out now on Mac. Shortly after reaching the 250K sales mark, the 2012 "anti-game" - as Garrett Martin described it in his four-star review - is alight on larger Apple systems in addition to iPhone, iPad, Wii U and PC.If you're a Mac user who likes to burn things, point your lighter in the direction of Steam, GamersGate, and Tomorrow Corporation's site.Tomorrow Corporation says a Linux version is "almost ready for testing," while an iOS update is in the works to bring the quirky puzzler to iPhone 4 and iPod Touch 4.
Little Inferno hits big with 250K sold, out now on iPhone
Little Inferno, Tomorrow Corporation's darling (burning) fireplace game that made its debut late last year on PC and Wii U, has reached 250,000 in sales, Destructoid reports. Tomorrow Corporation's Kyle Gabler confirmed the figure with Joystiq in an email. "We're no EA or Zynga, but for a weird game that's impossible to talk about, we're proud of it!"Little Inferno is out now on iPad and iPhone, available separately on the App store for $4.99 and $2.99, respectively.
Little Inferno brings warm glow to iPad Jan. 31
Little Inferno, the satirical game about buying stuff and then burning it, is spreading to iPad this Thursday, January 31. "Just like the other versions," developer Tomorrow Corporation pledges, "Little Inferno on iPad is still 100% free of in app purchases, ads, spam, etc. You'll get Just The Game and nothing else!"Little Inferno is currently available on Wii U, where it was an eShop launch game, as well as PC, with Mac and Linux versions on the way.
Wii U indies on sale on eShop
A surprise sale has popped up on the Wii U eShop, dropping the prices of three indie download games through early January.According to the banner on the eShop front page, Trine 2 is $15.99 (normally $19.99) until January 7, Little Inferno is $9.99 until January 4, down from $14.99, and Chasing Aurora is $7.49, half off until January 3. These prices are for North America; a similar deal applies in Europe, with the addition of Puddle.Given the extreme rarity of sale prices for WiiWare, it's a great comfort to see an eShop promotion so soon after the Wii U's launch.
Little Inferno review: Burn it all
Keep track of all of Joystiq's Wii U launch coverage on our Wii U hub page! Take your TV. Just yank it out of your entertainment center. It doesn't matter if you unhook it from the cable box or your Wii U first. You're just going to stick it right in the fireplace. Burn that TV. Burn your plates, your sunglasses, your radio. Your favorite stuffed animal from childhood? Your precious family photos? Straight into the fire. All the stuff that's accumulating in your house, all the junk you work to pay for that sits untouched on shelves or in the back of closets, pull them out and toss them in your fireplace and burn them. I mean, you're already wasting your time. You're playing a video game.That's what Little Inferno says. Except this weird little downloadable from Tomorrow Corporation (a team-up from the designers of World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure) isn't really a game. It's an anti-game, featuring few of the qualities necessary for an activity to be called a game. It has rules, but there's no challenge. There's a win state, but you can't lose, so it's more like an inevitable stopping point. Mostly, Little Inferno is an interactive story, but it's even low-key about that until an unforgettable conclusion. That story mocks us for fixating on this repetitive, unproductive activity and ignoring the world around us, arguing that this passivity and neglect is as destructive as if we intentionally tried to ruin the world. And somehow Little Inferno makes this subversive point about as adorably as possible.%Gallery-171583%
Little Inferno is the Wii U game you can play on PC, out now
With all the "new console" frenzy surrounding the Wii U this week, it's easy for PC gamers to feel shafted, alone and ignored, left out in the cold of these winter months. One Wii U game, at least, doesn't want to see anyone freeze, and it's available on Steam at the same time as its Nintendo launch: Little Inferno.Little Inferno comes from Tomorrow Corporation, the designers behind World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth, and it's available on Steam now for PC, with Mac and Linux versions to follow. The game thrusts players into the heartwarming tale of a child burning toys in the Little Inferno Entertainment Fireplace and "looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall."PC gamers, put some heat back in your cheeks with Little Inferno, on Steam or through Tomorrow Corporation for $15.
Little Inferno heats up PC and Wii U this Sunday
Little Inferno, the toy conflagration game from the Henry Hatsworth/World of Goo vets at Tomorrow Corporation, sparks to life on Wii U and PC November 18. Yes, that's three days from now. That's the Wii U's North American launch day, in fact.It's a good time to see some footage of the game! If you're interested in buying toys and then chucking them directly into a fire for warmth, you can pre-purchase the PC version through Steam for 10% off ($13.49), and get access to a beta build until release. Or you can wait until Sunday and discover how the Wii U eShop works!
Get early access to Little Inferno beta by pre-ordering
Tomorrow Corporation's Little Inferno – whose catchy, macabre trailer we've included above – will be released officially sometime this holiday season. But you can pay $15 (or more, if you choose) now via a widget on the official website, in order to secure access to a beta version before it's released. "The Windows beta versions will be first, since we are developing the game on Windows," TC notes. "You are still welcome to sign up if you require Mac or Linux, but we do not yet know when we will have those versions ready for testing."The beta build of the game is not ready yet, but pre-ordering will give you a "small preview of the soundtrack." Beta access will be rolled out "in small batches," in an order determined primarily by the order in which pre-orders are received, along with various testing-related parameters. "Depending on the number of signups, we cannot guarantee a beta seat for everyone," the developer warns.
Little Inferno trailer warms hearts, burns stuff
The first trailer for Tomorrow Corporation's Little Inferno depicts a game that looks simultaneously entertaining and super depressing. In order to warm up an increasingly cooler world, you ... throw as many toys as you can into a fireplace. That's the premise, anyway. This is just the first teaser, so all the details of how you'll burn up toys have yet to be discussed."Burn flaming logs, screaming robots, credit cards, batteries, exploding fish, unstable nuclear devices, and tiny galaxies," Tomorrow says. "An adventure that takes place almost entirely in front of a fireplace - about looking up up up out of the chimney, and the cold world just on the other side of the wall."The new game from former World of Goo and Henry Hatsworth creators will be released on PC, Mac, Linux ... and Wii U. The latter platform was likely added in a nod to World of Goo's singular success on WiiWare.
World of Goo, Henry Hatsworth devs announce next game: Little Inferno
Little Inferno is the next game from Tomorrow Corporation, the development team made up of World of Goo's Kyle Gabler, Henry Hatsworth's Kyle Gray, and World of Goo Wii programmer Allan Blomquist.All we know at this point is the title (with accompanying, adorable logo), and that the team has been "locked away" working on it "for what seems like a very long time." We'll soon learn more, as TC promises to post frequent development updates on its site, followed by a multiplatform release "by this winter.""We've been quiet about this game so far to avoid being another lost adorable indie game that never materializes," Kyle Gabler explained in a blog post. "but now we're almost done!"[Thanks, Tyronelab]
