2D Boy, makers of WiiWare/PC hit World of Goo, are bringing their game to Apple's iPad, bringing with it support for up to 11 fingers at once. When can we expect this all-new, touchscreen-controlled World of Goo?

"As soon as we get approved by Apple," explains 2D Boy. "We hope before the holiday season."

The physics-based puzzle game sure seems like a good fit for the iPad, so we're looking forward to before the holiday season. 2D Boy says that an iPhone version is a definite "maybe," writing that if Apple's phone is up to the technical challenge it's under consideration.

World of Goo on iPad Releasing Soon [2D Boy]

Never ones to let a bit of charity corner the market for gaming bargains, Valve's Steam service is now offering the "Steam Play Indie Pack", which bundles five great games along with ability to play on both Mac and PC.

That means you can buy the games on PC and play them on Mac, or vice versa. Which is probably the main reason it's gone on sale today of all days, but you can't help but wonder whether the success of the Wolfire bundle didn't contribute slightly to the decision.

The five games are "And Yet It Moves", "Galcon Fusion", "Osmos", "World of Goo" and "Machinarium", so yeah, it's a quality pack. Indeed, for $20 it'd be worth it for those last two games alone.

We got a little bummed yesterday that people were pirating a games bundle released for charity. Let's put that behind us today, and instead focus on the positive aspects of said bundle. Like the fact it's made over $1 million.

Yes, since its release last week, Wolfire's Humble Indie Bundle has been bought by 118,810 people, with a total of $1,080,964 being spent on the pack. Now, not all of that goes to charity: Wolfire points out that $334,646 will be split between the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child's Play, the remainder to be divided between the game's developers.

The charitable donations will no doubt garner the most headlines, and rightly so, but I'm actually more impressed with a $650,000 pay day for those indie devs (it works out to be just over $150,000 each).

To mark the occassion, the pack has also gone "open source", with the code for every title bar World of Goo set to be laid bare for all the internet to see/play with.

Humble Indie Bundle [Wolfire]

Last week, a pack went on sale that let you name your own price for five great indie games, all in the name of charity. Know what a ton of people then went and did? Pirated the thing. Wonderful.

To recap, this was a pack that let you pay what you want. With all proceeds going to charity. So you could pay $1 and get five of the best indie games going around, and donate to a good cause, all at the same time. $1!

Even that was too much for many, though, with publishers Wolfire - whose David Rosen penned a great piece on the matter last week - estimating that at least 25% of users got the games for free. And that's a conservative estimate, since it includes only those who scammed the games off a forum or website, and not off BitTorrent sites.

Some days, you're reminded how awful people can really be. Today is one of those days.

Saving a penny — pirating the Humble Indie Bundle [Wolfire]

How much would you pay for a copy of World of Goo, Gish and three additional games that don't prominently feature black blobs dripping with indie cred? Thanks to the Humble Indie Bundle you pay exactly "whatever."

Wolfire is offering a five game bundle that includes Aquaria, Penumbra: Overture, Lugaru, Gish and World of Goo at a pay-what-you-want rate. These cross-platform games are DRM-free and run on Mac, Windows, and Linux, so no one need complain. (Okay, OS/2 users, you can complain about being left out.)

In addition to letting indie game enthusiasts name their price, Wolfire and the participating indie acts are letting buyers send their contribution directly to charity, Penny Arcade's Child's Play and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specifically. Give it all to charity, divvy it up evenly, whatever!

The fun and the good vibes from doing good are free, so be hasty with the purchase.

The Humble Indie Bundle [Wolfire]

WarioWare: D.I.Y. lets budding young game designers with short attention spans make their own video games. Sure they may last less than 10 seconds, but that's enough for some. How does professional video game maker Ron Carmel do?

Carmel is one half of the team that made the WiiWare and PC indie hit World of Goo, co-founder of 2D Boy. What does he do when give the microgame making toolbox that is WarioWare: D.I.Y.? Well, he makes a blink and you'll miss it spin on his own game, titled "Suck Goo!"

It's about as simplistic as a WarioWare game can get—one tap and you're done—but it's also a good illustration of the style one can bring to their do-it-yourself creations.

Carmel's "Suck Goo!" is available for download to your copy of WarioWare: D.I.Y. starting today, part of Nintendo's celebrity-made microgame giveaways.