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After more than 72,000 gamers contributing over $600,000, the “Humble Indie Bundle” has added a sixth game to the pay-what-you-want bundle of games. The best part of this awesome deal is that all of the money is being donated to Child’s Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. So, name your price, get six awesome indie games, and donate to charity all at once. Hurry up though, the bundle is only offered for another day, so grab yourself some games!

via [Wolfire Blog]

EA DICE has released patch notes and a rough release date for Bad Company 2‘s next PC patch that should weigh in at about 500MB come next week. The patch will bring client version R8 and server version R12. Hop the break for the patch’s entire changelog.

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The Bargain Bin is a weekly feature that helps out gamers in the tough economy. How does it help? Once a week, it offers a great and cheap game ($10 or less) to keep you going until your next paycheck.

On the asteroid “Alpha Prime” is a seemingly abandoned deep space mining facility. Hubbardium, the material that was being mined, was not only incredibly valuable, but also fatally unstable. The hubbardium seems to have turned the miners into something much worse, and who’s just crash-landed right in the middle of it all? That’s right, our protagonist.

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Iron Man 2 was one of the few, highly anticipated movies that we’ve seen in a while. With opening weekend officially behind us, raking in $134 million in the U.S., we thought we’d give you our thoughts on the new sequel, since the series is full of nerdgasmic awesomeness. See what both Craig and Tim have to say after the break.

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Seagate Unveils GoFlex Line of Hard Drives and Media Players
- We knew “something big” was coming from Seagate, but we had no idea what until now. Earlier this evening, the storage company unveiled the GoFlex line of products that include ultra-portable drives, desktop external drives, an HD media player, and a media sharing device.

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With the recent announcement from Sony that they would be ending their floppy disk manufacturing next year, officially killing the thirty-year-old storage format, it’s really hard to think that CDs and DVDs will last much longer. Much like what people are doing with floppy disks now, there are some that are starting to create different objects out of discs and not use them for their intended use. Just myself alone I’ve seen peers decorate their room with discs and even make boxes out of old jewel cases super-glued together. Heck, I’ve even started using a DVD as a drink coaster not too long ago. With digital content services being used more and more every day, it’s hard to believe that discs will be surviving for much longer.

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In my gaming days before the Razer Mamba, I was using my 800 DPI Logitech MX Revolution. Since I’ve begun the Mamba testing, I have only used the MX Revolution a few times over the past five months. Now that I’m firmly acquainted with the Mamba, I returned to my MX Revolution for a few days and to see how it compared with the Mamba. So, in hindsight, how do I feel about the differences?

Of course, these two devices are hardly comparable except that they’re both wireless, but during my past time with the MX Revolution, I felt it was the best mouse I had ever used. So, after a long time away from the MX and all this time being spent with the Mamba so far, do I still have the same passion for the MX? Or will I just struggle through the dying relationship so that I can return quickly to the Mamba?

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The awesome developers behind the creepy and atmospheric Penumbra horror games have announced that their upcoming game, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, will be offered at a 50% discount to everyone that pre-orders the game before May 11th. If that’s not enough, they also said that if they hit 2,000 pre-orders before May 31st, the game will launch with some extra content when it releases this summer.

At 2000 pre-orders, placed before the 31st of May, the game will get extra content in the form of a commentary track. By enabling commentaries, members from Frictional Games will talk about the creation of Amnesia: The Dark Descent during your playtrough.

If you’re unfamiliar with the Penumbra series, or The Dark Descent, then I highly suggest you head over to the game’s homepage and checkout the amazingly tense and creepy trailer.

via [Big Download]

The boys over at Kotaku managed to get their hands on some leaked display cover art (pictured above) for Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood. The cover art states that it will come Fall 2010 and above lists Xbox 360, PS3 and PC as the launch platforms. The display states that gamers will return to take control of Ezio, the protagonist of Assassin’s Creed II with quotes like:

“Live and breathe as Ezio, now a legendary master assassin, in his struggle against the Templar order. Lead your own brotherhood of Assassins and strike at the heart of the enemy. Rome. For the first time, take part in an innovative multiplayer layer allowing you to embody an assassin of your choosing and define their killing style.”

Ubisoft even confirmed the image’s legitimacy with the following quote:

“Ubisoft confirms the authenticity of this image and will provide more information next week.”

via [Kotaku]

It seems like Ubisoft’s one and only flight combat simulator is making a comeback with a sequel. Tom Clancy’s HAWX 2 is planned for release this coming Fall for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and the PC. All we have is this lousy website to go off of, but other than that, no other details were mentioned, which makes us believe we might see more come E3 2010 in June.

via [Big Download]