Humble Indie Bundle Now Includes Android

The “Humble Indie Bundle” a collection of cross-platform, DRM-free, pay-what-you-want games has added a new platform to the mix: Android. For the first time ever, purchasing the Humble Bundle will get you the same games on Android, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS.

Games For A Good Cause

The Humble Bundle is more than an excuse to play more games, it’s a noble fundraising project aimed at supporting two very worthwhile causes: Child’s Play, which seeks to improve the lives of children in hospitals, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group dedicated to protecting our rights in a digital world.

Aside from simply donating money to these causes, a purchase of the Humble Bundle also proves a point about software piracy. As the Bundle is completely DRM free, you could simply download it from any one of the file sharing sites on the Internet (well, the ones that haven’t been raided by the US government, at least). You could also give $1.00 and download the games, getting the individual games for pennies.

But a quick look at the detailed stats that the Humble Bundle keeps shows that plenty of people aren’t taking the easy route:

The old adage of “Talk with your wallet” is perhaps one of the truest things ever said. By putting our money where our proverbial mouths are, we can tell groups like the MPAA and RIAA that the average consumer is more than willing to pay for quality, reasonably priced, content. Wrapping everything we buy up in DRM won’t make us want to purchase it more than we did before; if anything, it will push users towards the often easier to manage pirated version.

Supporting projects like the Humble Bundle is an excellent way to prove the Internet isn’t the pirate cesspool some people in the industry would have the world believe, and sends a strong and clear message that we don’t need new laws about Internet piracy, we just need something worth spending our money on.