The latest Humble Weekly Bundle sale offers games and supports several open source initiatives. The Humble Weekly Sale (celebrating open source) offers eight DRM-free games for Mac, Linux, and Windows (and on Steam) for whatever price you want. Pay whatever you want for Magical Diary, NEO Scavenger (Early Access Game), Offspring Fling! and Planet Stronghold.

On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about Positech Games talking about the evils of game sales, Microsoft considering positive reinforcement for good Xbox Live behavior, Australia's ratings reforms, and last week's poll about rich people using crowdfunding. Download Episode 92 now: SuperPAC Episode 92 (1 hour, 2 minutes) 71.6 MB.

Indie developer Positech Games said via a new blog post that game sales (like the kind found on Steam and in the Humble Bundle) are providing the endorphin rush instead of the fun of actually playing the games players are purchasing at deep discounts. Positech Games' Cliff Harris says that these kinds of sales are insidious dangers that normalize huge price reductions.

"This is a big psychology trick that is being used to siphon money from gamers, and it's a bad thing," he said. "And if we can - and I think we probably can't - we should stop it."

The latest Humble Bundle offers ebooks on the cheap. The Humble eBook Bundle 3 offers ebooks "The Happiest Days of Our Lives," by Wil Wheaton; "Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale," by Holly Black; "Jumper," by Steven Gould; and "Zombies Versus Unicorns - An Anthology," by various artists for whatever price you want. Paying more than the average price will get you "Mogworld," by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw; "Uglies," by Scott Westerfeld; and more to be announced at a later date.

This week's Humble Weekly Sale features a line-up of Sega games topping out at right around $15 (or more if you want to pay it) if you also want to get your hands on Total War: Shogun 2. Pay whatever you want to get your hands on Alpha Protocol, Company of Heroes, Rome: Total War Rome: Total War, and Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit.

This week's Humble Weekly Sale features eight games from PopCap Games if you are willing to pay more than the average price. All of the games are available for either Steam or EA's Origin digital distribution platforms, and seven of them are playable on Mac.

Humble Indie Bundle 11 is live offering up to six games if you are willing to pay more than the average price. Humble Indie Bundle 11 offers four games for any price you want to pay: including action-platformer Guacamelee! Gold Edition, action RPG Dust: An Elysian Tail, atmospheric puzzle-platformer The Swapper, and hardcore platformer Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams (includes a digital comic).

The Humble Sid Meier Bundle has earned over $3.4 million dollars with the sale of over 350,000 bundles.  What's in a Sid Meier Bundle, you ask?

Fans of Sid Meier's vast body of work over the years will likely be delighted that the latest Humble Bundle features a number of his most popular games. The Humble Sid Meier Bundle offers Sid Meier's Civilization III Complete, Sid Meier's Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies, and Sid Meier's Railroads! for whatever price you want.

The latest bundle offering from Humble Bundle, Humble Indie Bundle X, is now available. The bundle offers four indie titles for whatever you want, and two additional games if you pay more than the average price.

Pay whatever you want and get several decent games including To the Moon, Joe Danger 2: The Movie, Papo & Yo, and Runner2. Pay more than the current average of $6.68 to unlock Reus, and Surgeon Simulator 2013. The Mac and Linux versions of Reus are in beta still, but you can play them.

Bundle Stars is offering the Indie Capsule Bundle, which contains seven indie games for as little as $3.50 - for a limited time. Three of the games are playable on the Mac, while all the games are available for Windows and codes are available for Steam. Sorry, no Linux games in this bundle...

The seven games are Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet (Windows), Blood of the Werewolf (Windows), Slender: The Arrival (Windows), And Yet it Moves (Windows, Mac), Plain Sight (Windows), Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time (Windows, Mac), Snuggle Truck (Windows, Mac).

In a tweet congratulating the team at Electronic Arts for their part in the highly successful Humble Origin Bundle, EA's Peter Moore said that the company had donated $1.65 million of the $10.5 million generated by the bundle to the American Cancer Society.

When EA, Origin, and the Humble Bundle announced the Humble Origin Bundle back in August, they said that all of EA's and Origin's profits would go to give charities - the Human Rights Campaign; Watsi; the San Francisco AIDS Foundation; the American Red Cross; or the American Cancer Society.

The latest Humble Bundle, The Humble Jumbo Bundle, offers three games for whatever price you want to pay, and six games if you pay more than the average price. These games include Natural Selection 2, Sanctum 2, and Magika plus all the DLC.

Paying more than the average price will get you three more games - Orcs Must Die! 2: Complete Pack, Garry's Mod, and Serious Sam 3: BFE. While bundle does require you to have a Steam account, at least they are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

The DRM-free pay-what-you-want Indie Royale Debut 7 has launched this week, offering six indie games. By paying the set minimum price of $2.99 or more, you can get six games including the fighting game Mitsurugi Kamui Hikae, multiplayer mech fighter Metal Planet, first-person puzzler Pulse Shift, adventure game Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine, RPG Millennium 2: Take Me Higher, and space-themed strategy game Fleet Buster.

Do you like video games? How about books? How about a bunch of books for as little as $3.00 about video games?

Humble Bundle has added three new titles to it latest pay-what-you-want DRM-free bundle today - the Humble Mobile Bundle 3. The Humble Mobile Bundle 3 features six games for Android (two of which you'll have to pay more than the average price). Consumers can get the post-apocalyptic shooter EPOCH, the tetromino space strategy game rymdkapsel, the word-based puzzler game SpellTower and the 2D hack-and-slash Swordigo.

Humble Bundle has launched its newest pay-what-you-want DRM-free bundle today - the Humble Mobile Bundle 3. The Humble Mobile Bundle 3 features six games for Android (two of which you'll have to pay more than the average price).

The latest Bundle in a Box offers a bunch of nifty indie strategy and war games for PC and mobile platforms for a low, low price - and DRM-free. The bundle includes Us & Them - Cold War, Storm Over The Pacific, AI War: Fleet Command, Creeper World, Strategic War in Europe, The Trouble With Robots, Age of Conquest III, and Droidscape: Basilica.

You can pay as little as $0.99 for all these titles, but if you pay more than the current average price of $4.94 you'll get Mayhem Intergalactic, Project Aftermath, Fall Weiss, Creeper World 2, and AI War: The Zenith Remnant.

The Humble WB Games bundle now has even more content to entice those who have yet to purchase it and to reward those who have paid well over the average price. The new content (which you'll have to pay more than the current average price of $4.64) includes F.E.A.R., Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, Guardians of Middle Earth + DLC, the Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack, the Gotham City Impostors: Professional Kit, and The Millennium Skins Pack for Batman: Arkham Origins.

The organizers of the Humble Bundle have announced that they have launched a permanent storefront to sell games at a discount on a regular basis and support charity at the same time. The new Humble Bundle Store opens with deals on Don’t Starve, Prison Architect, Rogue Legacy, Euro Truck Simulator 2, Natural Selection II, The Swapper, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, Orcs Must Die! 2 and Gunpoint.

The games are discounted from 50 - 75 percent off and 10 percent of proceeds are divided among EFF, Child's Play, the Red Cross, World Land Trust, and charity:water.

The latest bundle from Humble Bundle - the Humble WB Games bundle is inching towards $3 million on the sale of over 600,000 bundles. As of this writing the bundle has raked in $2.874 million. The Humble WB Games Bundle offers consumers Batman: Arkham Asylum, FEAR 2: Project Origin, FEAR 3, and Lord of the Rings: War in the North for any price they want. Paying more than the current average price (right now it is at $4.64) will get you two additional games - Scribblenauts Unlimited and Batman: Arkham City GOTY Edition.

The latest Humble Bundle offers a total of six (if you pay more than the average price - four if you decide not to) Warner Bros. Games. All of these games run on Steam for Windows, though one game - Batman: Arkham City - is also available for Mac.

This week's Humble Weekly Sale features ten games from Team 17, mostly comprised of its top-two most popular franchises: Alien Breed and Worms. You can get six of the games simply by paying more than $1, but paying more than $6 will net you four additional games. Charities being supported by this week's offering are Child's Play and the Red Cross.

The folks at Humble Bundle have added new games to its Pay-What-You-Want Humble Bundle 7 with Android today. The old bundle featured four games: Ticket to Ride and the USA 1910 DLC) Greed Corp, Incredipede and Anodyne - along with the soundtracks for Ticket to Ride, Greed Corp, and Anodyne - along with a remix album.

This week's Humble Weekly Sale features some great games from Hothead Games and supports the Child's Play and Red Cross charities. The sale, which has a little over five days left until it ends, offers five role-playing games via Steam (only) for Windows and Mac.

Did you think Humble Bundle had closed up shop?  We're not sure why you would think that but the Pay-What-You-Want bundle dealer is back with a new bundle featuring four games: Ticket to Ride (plus the USA 1910 DLC), Greed Corp, Incredipede and Anodyne.  Also included are the soundtracks for Ticket to Ride, Greed Corp, and Anodyne (plus a remix album).

Last week we asked our readers, "What Do You Think of Humble Bundle These Days?" The majority of voters think that the Humble Bundle still offers consumers a great deal, even though some of you think the "pay-what-you-want" DRM indie bundle has lost its way just a tad bit.

On Episode 69 of the Super Podcast Action Committee, hosts Andrew Eisen and E. Zachary Knight talk about the "unique nature" of Valve Software's "family sharing program" for Steam, Fox News and Dr. Keith Ablow making a concerted effort on connecting video game violence with real-world violence, and a whole lot more. Download Episode 69 now: SuperPAC Episode 69 (1 hour, 1 minute) 28 MB.

On Tuesday, I put up a poll asking you fine readers with fantastic taste in footwear what you thought of Humble Bundle these days.

Humble Indie Bundle 9 has launched offering five indie games and two extras if you are willing to pay above the current average price. Returning to its roots a little bit with this bundle, Humble Indie Bundle 9 offers Trine 2: Complete Story, Mark of the Ninja, Eets Munchies (Beta), and Brütal Legend. Paying more than the average price (currently $4.41) gets you Fez and FTL: Faster Than Light. The bundle also comes with soundtracks for Fez, Brütal Legend, Trine 2, and Trine 2: Goblin Menace.

You can check out the latest bundle at www.humblebundle.com.