UPDATE: From the Humble page -- The Humble Indie Bundle experiment has been a massive success beyond our craziest expectations. So far, in just over 6 days, 113,204 generous contributors have put down an incredible $1,024,603. Of this, contributors chose to allocate 31.04% to charity: $317,999 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play Charity. I have made a page for the full break... more.

This year, the Child's Play charity has broken records and raised over $1,000,000 faster than ever before. In the span of only a month, they have managed to reach and exceed their goal faster than anyone had anticipated. "Indeed, it has grown with such vigor that it can't even be represented on the main site, because Kiko didn't make the bar big enough," Jerry "Tycho" Holkins jokes on the ... more.

It seems that governments and parents regularly become fixated on the content of games. They talk about gaming as though it is the corrupter of the youth, the new source of society`s ills. Television and cinema are probably laughing themselves to sleep after being the target of similar complaints for the last thirty years, because the news media has finally found a new target. It is an easy way... more.