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VVVVVV, Escape Goat star in GOG.com's 5 for $5 indie game sale
Taking a cue from the roast beef artisans at Arby's, Good Old Games is offering a 5 for $5 sale on a collection of indie games recently added to the storefront's online catalog. GOG's Super 5 Promo includes Terry Cavanagh's VVVVVV, Smudged Cat Games' Adventures of Shuggy and Gateways, MagicalTimeBean's Escape Goat, and Size Five Games' adventure game combo Time, Gentlemen Please! + Ben There, Dan That! Purchased together, all featured games are priced at 99 cents each. Buyers can also mix-and-match the bundle at a discounted rate, or individual games can be purchased separately for $1.99 each. Seasoned curly fries are not included.
Snapshot: Gateways
There are so many games out there we couldn't possibly review them all. Welcome to Snapshot, where we highlight games that might fall outside our usual coverage but are still something we think you should know about. Today: Gateways for PC. Yes, Gateways is a retro 2D platformer from an independent developer. Go ahead and get out all your grumbling about the saturation of retro platformers on the indie scene. Really, let it all out. There it is. And breathe.Now that our minds are open and clear, let's talk about Gateways.Gateways comes from Smudged Cat Games, the developer behind The Adventures of Shuggy, and it therefore carries a certain level of polish and intricacy expected from a veteran creator. It's truly not just another indie, retro 2D platformer – it's an indie, retro 2D platformer with a multitude of layers in gateway guns, time-shifting abilities, mirror refraction and flashlight technology, all set in an eccentric scientist's overrun laboratory.%Gallery-167608%
Award-winning indie game Gateways on sale for $1 on XBLIG
Gateways, Smudged Cat Games' entry into the Indie Games Summer Uprising, is on sale for 80 Microsoft Points ($1) on XBLIG, for a limited time. Smudged Cat is the developer behind The Adventures of Shuggy, and Gateways is a game we're thoroughly enjoying on Steam, where it is $5.Gateways normally runs 240 MS points via XBLIG, so if you're intrigued by a retro 2D platformer with a series of matter-melting guns that just so happens to be a Dream Build Play 2012 winner, check it out now for cheap.
