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Which came first, the finalists or the sale? The Direct2Drive Vision Award has just named its five finalists vying for a $10,000 prize to be announced at the Independent Games Festival. Last year was the first year this award was presented, with Osmos taking home the cash.
Chosen from the full pool of entrants that Arsen [...]

Direct2Drive, one of the sponsors of the Independent Games Festival, has just launched a sale to end all indie sales.
From today through March 12, you can snag ten hot indie titles for just $29.95. The math works out to 78% off, or a savings of roughly $105.55. If you’re interested in a mere 4/10 of [...]

Direct2Drive has slashed 50% off of Lazy 8’s acclaimed puzzle game Cogs, going for only $5 now on IGN’s digital distribution service.
The title has players building machines from sliding tiles, with simple puzzles giving way to more complex, three dimensional ones as you progress through.
The title includes 50 levels and three gameplay modes: Inventor, Time Challenge [...]

D2D continues to offer good discounts on top indie titles, today announcing Dejobaan Games’ unique free-faller Aaaaa! – A Reckless Disregard for Gravity at 50% off as their Deal of the Week. In the title, you try your best to impress a crowd who watch as you base jump from the top of skyscrapers, creating [...]

Since the start of December, Direct2Drive has been holding a ‘24 Days of Christmas’ event that sees a different PC game discounted every day. Today, Amanita Design’s well received adventure title Machinarium goes for 50% off the standard price as the indie has been spotlighted on the 21st day of the digital distributor’s holiday sale.
The [...]

As indie gamers, we often encounter games with a lot of character. These games can be of any genre or category, but are most impressive when they take a concept that can clearly be done in overstimulated 3D, and instead make a 2D rendition of epic proportions. Here at DIYgamer, we’re often let down by [...]

Direct2Drive is doing a ‘twitter exclusive’ sale on Runic Games’ excellent action RPG Torchlight, taking 25% off the game through tomorrow, November 22. Just enter the code 5OFFTORCH at checkout and you’ll get, you guessed it, $5 off Torch.
The gameplay really takes the Diablo style to another level, and with the title you get the TorchED editor [...]

Torchlight, an indie Action RPG in the same vein as Diablo, was released late last month to much fan fair from both the gaming community and the general gaming press. However, with little to no real marketing budget I don’t think anybody really expected it to sell all too well. But, what do you know? [...]

Direct2Drive has revealed its deal of the week, offering up KlooniGames’ indie hit Crayon Physics Deluxe for 50% off the standard price. CPD is a 2D physics puzzle/sandbox game where players interact with crayon drawings as if they were real physical objects.
The IGF 2008 Grand Prize Winner packs over 70 levels, a level editor and more. The title [...]

I pride myself in fishing out some of the best indie game sales, discounts and offers around the web. Not only because it’s cool reading about those happy individuals who would otherwise have no inkling of the deal, but also because doing so gives the developer the extra exposure to hopefully see profit from the [...]