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The latest Humble Indie Bundle packs in four award-winning games along with two bonuses for those who beat the average price.

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Introversion’s released a new demo for Multiwinia and announced a special offer for the game on Steam this weekend.

Buy before tomorrow and your $10 purchase will include the original Darwinia for free.

And why the new demo? The first one didn’t include any multiplayer options, apparently.

Go to the official site for the download.

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Title says it all. As of around two-and-a-half hours ago, Introversion’s strategy title, Multiwinia, went live.

The game’s available to buy from the Introversion store for £15, $24.90 or €19.95.

“Multiwinia is also available from Steam and will soon be released into retail worldwide,” says the release.

Full thing after the break.

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Introversion sent word this afternoon that its site is now taking pre-orders for Multwinia: Survival of the Flattest.

“There will be a three-tiered pre-order menu; digital download, digital download plus boxed unit, or customers will be able to treat themselves and purchase our limited edition special pack presented in a beautiful custom-made Darwinian tin,” said a rep by email.

“These Darwinia logo-embossed tins will be exclusive to the Introversion Store and will contain DVDs of both Multiwinia and Darwinia, a fantastic coffee-table book featuring award-winning artwork from both games, the complete postcard set of Multiwinia cartoons and our very own Darwinian foam toys, loved by journalists and fans alike!”

Pricing and details through the link.

Philips announced this afternoon that Multiwinia is to be amBX-enabled, meaning the multiplayer strategy follow-up with flash and fan along with all amBX kit.

“Our agreement with Introversion builds on a hugely successful relationship between amBX and Introversion through DEFCON and Darwinia,” said amBX marketing boss Jo Cooke.

“amBX will produce an exhilarating gaming experience for Multiwinia players. As players fly higher into the sky, the amBX lighting will intensify and the desk fans will blow harder, to recreate the Jet Stream.

“The coloured satellite lights, fan bursts and wrist rumbler will recreate explosions and the wall washer lighting will even reflect the environment as players fly through the different landscapes. Multiplayer gaming has never felt or looked so good.”

The game’s going to be shown on the amBX stand at Develop this week.

Press release after the break.

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Introversion’s put the official Multiwinia site live. There are links there for both a demo and video of the multiplayer RTS, but neither are in place yet, unfortunately. There are some pretty screens, though, and that’s all you can hope for. Go see.

According to this Shacknews piece, Multiwinia will release in September. The Introversion multiplayer RTS is also hitting Live this year in the form of Darwinia+, which includes the original game plus the online update. No firm date on that as yet, though.

Introversion sent over some new shots of upcoming RTS Multiwinia, and very nice it’s looking too. The game’s an update to the much-loved Darwinia, which saw little computer men fighting for survival against virus types.

We’ve just got a preview build of this, so we’ll knock up some impressions and new shots this week. No date as yet. After the link.

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Nice, genyoowine exclusive here for the RPS massive, with Gillen getting a good go on Introversion’s Multiwinia. There are plenty of screens included, and a heap of detail on a bot-match on the Holy Tree map.

This pretty much sums it up: “I’m dominating the left of the battlefield, and there’s plenty of computer-guy-corpses to recycle.”

Take a look.

According to Introversion’s forums, Multiwinia testing is starting now.

“Finally after years of development we are finally in a position to start the testing of Multiwinia,” said a staffer. “This is a massive achivement for us and we’re really looking forward to finding out what the rest of the world thinks of our next game.”

Hit this if you want to get involved.

And here it is. Apparently beta testers are being accepted in batches of 50. The multiplayer version of Introversion’s strategy oddity Darwinia will be ready for release this summer.

Indie favourite Introversion – developer of classics Uplink, Darwinia, Defcon and the upcoming Subversion – has hinted that the company’s future may see a publishing role develop.

“There are games out there we could have taken and published,” said commercial director Mark Arundel, talking to videogaming247 in San Francisco yesterday, ahead of this week’s GDC. “Half the team is publishing, so we end up with people being idle. To keep those staff you have to do something.”

“I see so many games out there messed up with schoolboy errors,” Arundel added. “It makes me furious.”

Arundel explained that indie game developers were blowing their chances to access big time opportunities by not being handled correctly.

“With our contacts and our understanding we could certainly do something useful,” he said.

Arundel and creative director Chris Delay outlined a possible future where their publishing and distribution architecture could handle games other than those produced by the tiny company. Arundel also envisioned two development teams within the firm.

The company is currently putting the finishing touches to its multiplayer version of cult RTS title Darwinia, as well as shaping the new experimental project, Subversion, an as yet enigmatic game both to the public and the people working on it.

“It’s true: we actually don’t know where this will go,” said Daley, referring to repeated public statements about the vagueness of Subversion, which is based around Delay’s experiments in procedural graphics.

“The game will happen when Chris has done enough,” said Arundel. “Or when I tell him to stop.”

Indie developer Introversion has confirmed that Multiwinia, the multiplayer update of RTS title Darwinia, is on track for a summer release this year.

“I’d hesitate saying a month, but you’re more than welcome to say it’s going to be out in the summer of 2008,” a company rep told VG247. “We’ve got some announcements about Multiwinia as well, which we’re going to make about April-May time, when we get the website up and running.”

Multiwinia is a four-player update to indie classic Darwinia, in which digital tribes go head to head for supremacy of a computer’s guts, essentially. It takes place after Darwinia, in which the Darwinians fought off a computer virus. Since they successfully defended themselves, the Darwinians have grown in number and started fighting each other. Sounds fun.

Lots more on this soon.