With a likely Steam Christmas sale over the horizon I, like many, am about to once again extend my backlog of games I don't have time to play unless I get made redundant.  Until it hits, there's another Humble Indie Bundle (Humble Indie Bundle #4) on the market.  I'm getting a little worried that we're starting to get over-saturated with these bundles.  I've seen competing bundle sites springing up and that makes me a little sad.  I think the Humble Bundle chaps have this nailed and cloning the concept doesn't help.  Having said that, they've also brought out quite a few bundles this year so maybe it's their own fault!

Regardless, this is a bundle worth your time and I'll be grabbing it for the two games I don't already own on there.  The only name you really need to see is Super Meat Boy (87% Metacritic), but along with this you'll be getting the following:

• Gratuitous Space Battles (72% Metacritic)
• Cave Story+ (89% Metacritic for Cave Story)
• Jamestown (81% Metacritic)
• Bit.Trip Runner (76% Metacricit Wii score)
• Shank (67% Metacritic)
• NightSky HD (78% Metacritic)

What're you waiting for?  Head over to http://www.humblebundle.com

Origin.  Right, now we've covered why I don't plan on getting into Battlefield 3, let's move on.

I, like many (some?  anyone else?  no?  ah well) of you, should return home tonight to find a copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sitting on my doormat.  Unfortunately, I'm not going to have much time to play it this week thanks to work, social engagements and having to install a SSD before I play it.  The weekend is where it all begins and I'll be trying to get through the campaign as quickly as the repeated cutscenes of my character returning from unconsciousness will allow before I hit the multiplayer side of things.  Proper dedicated servers should be bringing an interesting twist this time around, although by all accounts these are unranked so you may have to put up with matchmaking lumbering you with irritating teenagers with no social graces.  I'll be trying to get my usual COD crowd out and about for the banter (and in some cases the cannon fodder).  Hopefully I'll see a few of you out there!

Cheers,

falo

Anyone else wake up with a post-halloween hangover this morning?  If you did I can recommend my own personal cure - trot over to http://www.humblebundle.com/ and get yourself a copy of The Humble Voxatron Debut.  This will snag you an alpha of Voxatron an all future updates.  Voxatron is a "voxel-based, old-school-gone-new platform shooter."

If you haven't bought a humble bundle before, it's worth keeping track of what they do.  When you buy through them you name your price for some fantastic indie games and can divide your cash between the developers and various charities.  They also do their best to get Steam keys for the various games you buy.

Anyway, hop on over there and get buying!

EDIT: The "Debut" has become a bundle, with Blocks That Matter and The Binding of Isaac now included if you purchase at higher than the average price!