Tag Archives: Super Meat Boy

Super Meat Boy developer Tommy Refenes has published a thought-provoking blog post on the impact of DRM as an effective measure against piracy. He argued that the cost going into DRM does little to offset losses suffered by piracy, and that the controversial security measure makes people more likely to pirate a game.

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Edmund McMillen has said The Binding of Isaac, a game he describes as his “career suicide” game, came about as an answer to the “very, very safe,” Super Meat Boy.

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Humble Bundle V has, as of this post, has been purchased 495,134 times, and has accumulated $4,094,061.75 in sales.

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Humble Bundle V organizers have added Lone Survivor, Braid, and Super Meat Boy to what in our opinion is the best indie bundle yet. The bundle already includes: Bastion, Limbo, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Psychonauts, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent as well as the soundtracks, but if you pay over the current average price – $7.98 at press time – you’ll get all the above. Those who already purchased the bundle, will get the additions as well. So far, 435,891 bundles have been sold, generating $3,340,127.23 and counting.

Meat Boy will make a guest appearance in Retro City Rampage, a new video for the game has shown.

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Sick and tired of the way mobile games treat players, Team Meat aims to do things differently. More »

Team Meat has started work on the touchscreen version of Super Meat Boy, promising it’ll look and play “a lot different” than the standard Super Meat Boy that came out two years ago.

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The 3DS eShop’s more generous allowances are acceptable to Team Meat, and the developer has shown interest in expanding to other Nintendo platforms, too.

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Team Meat has corrected a report that its is prepping a port of Super Meat Boy for touch devices, assuring fans it’s toying with the idea of a whole new game.

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Team Meat’s confirmed on Twitter that Super Meat Boy has sold 1 million units since it first launched 18 months ago. The duo said in a tweet: “Fun Fact: Super Meat Boy past the million sales mark last month! PLATINUM BABY.” Super awesome. The hard as nails platformer launched on Xbox Live Arcade and PC in October 2010.

The pay-what-you-want Humble Bundle scheme offers you the chance to score some of the hottest tickets in indie gaming on the super-duper cheap: Bit.Trip Runner, Jamestown, Super Meat Boy, and more.

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Indie Game: The Movie, a feature documentary about “video games, their creators and the craft,” will make its world premiere as an official selection in World Documentary Competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival.

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Team Meat’s Edmund McMillen has claimed the two-man dev squad is now formed of “arrogant, jaded fools,” speaking in an anniversary voiceover for Super Meat Boy’s birthday.

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Team Meat’s going big for Super Meat Boy’s one year anniversary, announcing a special Steam bundle involving Bit Trip Beat, Bit Trip Runner, World of Goo, Braid, Gish, Aquaria, VVVVVV, Machinarium and even Half-Life 2. The bundle, which will also contain the deluxe soundtrack to SMB and OSTs to Braid, Bit Trip Beat, Bit Trip Runner and Machinarium, will set you back £17.89/$24.99.

If you want to buy games in the pack separately, though, they are half-price. Get the pack here.

Having said that Team Meat was “taken advantage of” by Microsoft in the run-up to the launch of Super Meat Boy, developer Edmund McMillen has confirmed that, after a spate of hugging and kissing between the two parties, the ultra-hard platformer is about to be re-pimped on XBLA.

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The day has gotten a bit brighter for UK fans of Super Meat Boy, because it has been announced that the game is getting to special editions at retail. Head on below the break for all the squeal-worthy details.

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Team Meat voiced an unusual opinion about Super Meat Boy’s piracy levels and said a swear! We like that kind of thing.

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Team Meat has posted an interesting belated developer diary for Super Meat Boy, covering cut characters and content.

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If you log into Steam today and load up Super Meat Boy, you may notice an new feature in the game menu called Enter the Unknown.

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It’s hump day. Lucky you. Not much left of the week, or today for that matter, so, no need in trying to escape. Have some short stuff to close it out with instead.

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