BY JACOB FERREIRA
Many gamers often have a hard time affording the latest games. Due to new releases costing between $50 to $60, gamers must rely on discounts such as Steam’s winter/summer sales and the Xbox’s Ultimate sales/daily deals to get games. However, one relatively unknown way to get PC games is through the Humble Bundle: a website where you pay whatever amount you want for a bundle of around five to nine games.
The buyer can choose how the money you pay is divided between the developers of the games, the website, and other charities (such as Child’s Play Charity, the American Red Cross and the Electronic Frontier Foundation among others). The Humble Bundle began on May 4th, 2010 and while it has been able to raise several million dollars since then, it has still gone unnoticed to a large majority of gamers.
When the Humble Bundle first appeared, it was known as the Humble Indie Bundle, due to it featuring solely indie games; such as Bit Trip: Runner, Super Meat Boy, and Braid. It gained a large amount of publicity with the release of Humble Bundle 5, which featured award-winning games such as Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Bastion, and the critically acclaimed Psychonauts. That sale ended with more than $5.1 million in total revenue with nearly 600,000 bundles sold.
The recently ended Origin Bundle, which included EA titles like Dead Space, Burnout Paradise, Mirror’s Edge, Crysis 2, Dead Space 3, Medal of Honor, Battlefield 3, and The Sims 3 Starter Pack, ended up making a record $10.54 million.
Since then, there have been many different kinds of bundles featured on the website; including Android apps, ebooks, music albums, and video and audio recordings of Stand up comedians like Louis C. K. and Patrice O’Neal. Another recently introduced addition to the site is the “weekly bundle” which features a different developer each week, like THQ and Telltale.
If you want to save big on multiple games in the future, then check out HumbleBundle.com to not only get a good deal on games, but support a good cause.
