LIMBO

Call him a sell-out. Call him a suit. Call him too mainstream. It doesn't change the fact that Mario was jumping and saving imperiled females before it was cool.

Ah yes, those young, hip fellows at the bar, sitting together exuding an aura of inapproachability. No one can get close enough to point out that all of their lofty achievements have been achieved before, and even if someone manages to slip past their defenses they simply rewind time so the transgression never occured.

This makes me glad to be the sort of gamer that will joyfully sit next to anyone at the video game bar and start chattering away. It's not about who jumped first. It's that they jumped at all.

Denmark-based indie developer Playdead was created with one goal—to produce Xbox Arcade game Limbo. Since the game premiered in 2010, it has been also been developed for the PlayStation Network, and for the PC on Steam.

In order to complete and expand Limbo, Playdead founders Arnt Jensen and Dino Patty called on the Danish government. When the company still needed more money, the govenment assisted Jensen and Patty in finding investors to help get Limbo on its feet.

Now the company has made enough money off of Limbo to buy itself back from its investors. This means that not only will Playdead have complete control over any games that they develop from here on out; the company is now completely owned by the founders and management within the company.

Limbo Developer Playdead Buys Itself Back From Investors [Gamasutra]

Having already charmed countless Xbox Live and PlayStation Network players, Playdead's starkly beautiful Limbo is now available for $9.99 on Steam, boasting the only version of the game to run at 60 frames per second. Hopefully that'll fix the flickering.