Big Robot Games' newly released Fallen City is an educational game centered around the titular settlement. A cutesy-looking offering that was the result of a comission from Channel 4, Fallen City will have you taking command of a troop of Angries, a blocky cadre of characters, even as you attempt to turn their run-down home into something that their hypothetical children will be proud of.

It's an almost wistful endeavor. People in real life seldom seem this willing to fling themselves into the community service. Nonetheless, it's still a nice thought and more than a decent game to share with your possible brood.

Download the game here.

What would you do if you had twenty seconds to save the world? If you're one Mr. McPixel, you would kick things. Between the legs. Repeatedly. McPixel first began life as a Ludum Dare entry 21. An odd little point & click game, it asked players to make strange decisions within the span of twenty seconds so as to be able to save the day. Vaguely reminiscent of those Warioware, the original was an absolute riot.

However, not content with the adoration of the Ludum Dare crowd, its creator went ahead and made a full version of the game, which will, barring unfortunate circumstances, be released on June 6th. In celebration of its upcoming release, the developer has unveiled a new demo as well!

You can find the game here.

Nintendo Entertainment System homebrew development studio Gradual Games has released its side-scrolling platformer Nomolos: Storming the Catsle via a production run of NES cartridges at RetroZone.

From its soundtrack to the background graphics, Nomolos exudes a strong Castlevania vibe -- it's a lot of fun to play, too! It's briskly paced, and there's a decent amount of variety in the level design and the boss encounters. It's definitely one of the best homebrew games I've played for the NES.

Nomolos is priced at $32 (plus shipping), while a boxed edition costs $41. A two-level demo is available at Gradual Games' website.

The IndieGames.com and Desura co-created Indie Royale is proud to present a very special game bundle - All-Charity Pack, featuring four awesome indie games and three outstanding chiptune albums/EPs, with 100% of the proceeds going to four extremely worthy charities.

The bundle's generous developers have each hand-picked a charity for their game, including UNICEF's Haiti aid, vital human rights work from Amnesty International, free speech and privacy advocacy from the EFF, and the global poverty programs of ActionAid.

Headlining the bundle is Hemisphere Games' dreamlike physics puzzle game Osmos, available for Windows and Mac on Steam, Windows and Linux on Desura, and DRM-free on Windows, Mac and Linux. The game puts the player in the role of a single-celled organism, tasked with growing larger by absorbing all the other organisms around it. A.V. Club called it, "Moving in every sense of the word" and Indiegames.com says, "Osmos mixes puzzle, action and strategy remarkably and all the while does it with great finesse and style." Blessed with an elegant minimalist electronic soundtrack, you'll progress from serenely ambient levels to varied and challenging worlds in this peaceful and engaging puzzler.

Next up is Erik Svedang's interactive fairytale Blueberry Garden, available for Windows on Steam, Desura, and DRM-free. An Independent Games Festival Grand Prize-winning experimental game about curiosity and exploration, you take on the role of a creature investigating a mysterious world. Try various fruits and use their effects to navigate the landscape more easily, and explore this playground of oddities in a living world with a marvelously offbeat soundtrack and multiple endings.

While many recent Kickstarter projects struggle to drum up support, NG:DEV.TEAM's René Hellwig successfully raised $25,000 for his horizontally scrolling shoot-'em-up Redux in just over a week, becoming what one backer describes as "the first physical console release to succeed on Kickstarter."

A majority of backers opted for the $65 pledge tier, which offers a Sega Dreamcast-compatible two-disc set featuring Redux and DUX 1.5. While copies of the game itself are still available, the project's highest reward tier -- a $1,000 package that includes a custom-made arcade stick and other bonuses -- has completely sold out since the project's launch.

Pledges from the project will fund the development of an updated version of Redux for Steam, Xbox Live Arcade, and the PlayStation Network. The Dreamcast edition is expected to ship to backers in December.

Save Your Folks! is a short, physics-based, tower-toppling puzzler, where you have to set off the bombs in order to manipulate the tower to fall down without letting any of the debris hit the tiny people, running around at the bottom of the screen.

There are only 8 levels and it shouldn't take long to figure out which bombs to explode first to make the towers collapse in the direction that you need them to. Watching the towers fall is the highlight of the game. The last level deviates from the 'save people' formula.

Save Your Folks! is a Ludum Dare 23 entry and can be played here.

Adam Cadre's first new game in years, the excellent Endless, Nameless, is a vast, demanding, fantasy text-adventure that will indeed remind you of the earliest attempts at interactive fiction. It does, after all, emulate the style of the venerable text-based dungeon crawlers of yore and even starts-off by exposing players to an 80s BBS welcome screen.

Endless, Nameless, besides being brilliantly written, does sport more than a few of the modern amenities text-adventurers have been used to and, interestingly, some simple CRPG mechanics too. You can play it online here or, better yet, download your very own copy here. Endless, Nameless runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, iOS and Android.

Three years in the making, StudioEgg's 2D fighter Rumble Pack recently caught my attention on Shoryuken. The game contains a lot of the typical 2D fighting tastiness: QCF-type moves, parrying, air combos, and links. The "Radix" system attempts to offer its own "groove" with three different styles: hex (defensive), decimal (offensive), and binary (tech). In addition to having unique properties, special moves will behave differently in each style. Skip to the 5:45 mark to watch this in action.

For the launch of the PC version of Serious Sam 3: Before First Encounter in 2011, publisher Devolver Digital took an unusual approach. The company hired three indies to create three smaller games that would release before the full Serious Sam game, to essentially build hype for the series. One of those games is Serious Sam Double D, from Weapon of Choice and Shoot 1up creator Nathan Fouts, and his team at Mommy's Best Games.

SSDD was released for Steam in late 2011, but now Devolver has commissioned an Xbox Live Arcade version from Fouts and company, called Serious Sam Double D: XXL (as though the game needed a longer acronym), ahead of Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 launches of Serious Sam 3: BFE.

The updated version of Fouts' game will feature additional levels, two-player co-op, and additional weapons for the game's "gunstacker" mechanic, which allows players to stack up their guns and use them all simultaneously. We spoke with Fouts to find out why the company took the "reverse path" from PC to console.

It's been two years since Radiangames released its debut title JoyJoy for the Xbox Live Indie Games service, and the developer celebrates the occasion this week with a catalog-wide sale.

Notably, the sale reduces the price of all Radiangames-published XBLIG titles to 80 Microsoft points ($1) each -- the first price drop these games have seen since Radiangames chose to price them at $5 each more than ten months ago.

All of Radiangames iOS apps are 99 cents this week, except for Super Crossfire, which is available for free. The developers Windows and Mac games are $1.99 each, and all soundtracks are also reduced in price.

The sale lasts through May 22nd. I'm thinking about picking up a couple of the XBLIG releases -- anyone have any recommendations?