World of Goo launches Great Indie Games

By Robert Purchese Published 17 June, 2009

New retail label charges 15 quid.

Mastertronic has announced the launch of its Great Indie Games publishing label.

It's been created to spread independently-developed videogames to shops. Few indie gems ever exist outside of the internet. Trapped in a virtual cage of emotion.

World of Goo is up first, and due an early July release for 15 Queenpounds or 20 Eurodollars. That's two pounds cheaper than Steam. And World of Goo is brilliant.

There's no word on what's next. Braid, we hope.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (24) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • Eraysor #1 3 years ago

    I see a trend developing. Now we have GIG and GOG. I'm not sure GAG is appropriate.

  • cyacomini #2 3 years ago

    Not sure I like WoG either!

  • cowell #3 3 years ago

    Hats off to Mastertronic on this one. In all likelihood, World of Goo and its ilk would not make it to retail as they are too much of a risk. However, distributed alongside their range of more mainstream product in their other ranges, there is a good chance you'll see this on the high street.

  • smelly #4 3 years ago

    Mastertronic were all about indie developers in the 80's.

    I got a game published with them i'd made in my bedroom at my mums house...

  • lemonfist #5 3 years ago

    That's pretty good news for people who like to collect things.

  • skillian #6 3 years ago

    Good to see them branching out after the success of World of Goo, but indie PC games at retail? When PC games are moving faster and faster towards downloads it doesn't exactly sound like a forward-thinking strategy.

    But hey, they know more than me so it's not like they won't have thought it through. Good luck to them.

  • Ryuken #7 3 years ago

    I really hope this will find its way to the Europe mainland as well.

  • stevetuck #8 3 years ago

    Is this the same game thats on the wii? because thats like £10 i think:p

    Though it is very hard on the wii heh :/

  • Oh-Bollox #9 3 years ago

    Already got WoG twice, once from their site, once for the Wii.

    I am more comfortable with a boxed copy though...

  • the_mtfr #10 3 years ago

    Smelly - what was that game? Is it on MobyGames yet?

  • smelly #11 3 years ago

    @the_mtfr: I have 15 games on moby games..

    Thus the reason i'm an old cynical bastard.

  • chiz #12 3 years ago

    Good on them - this is how it should be. Mastertronic published a lot of great games years ago at £1.99.

    It might even take the price of P.C. games down and make pirates think twice.

  • chiz #13 3 years ago

    What game was that Smelly?

  • smelly #14 3 years ago

    >make pirates think twice

    when i was a kid we used to pirate games which cost a quid.

    No matter what pirates say - it doesnt matter how cheap games are, if they can get them for free, they'll carry on.

  • chiz #15 3 years ago

    Well, the pirates claim that they only pirate games because they are too expensive, so this might work.

    I hope they keep the same logo > http://wp content.answers.com/wikipedia/e...

  • smelly #16 3 years ago

    >What game was that Smelly?

    Well considering most people on these forums hate me - outing myself like that would be a little stupid wouldnt it? Especially as it might start a hate campaign against my next game...

  • Oh-Bollox #17 3 years ago

    If the WoG boxed copy came with a little sticky goo ball complete with eyes, it'd sell a ton.

  • MGG #18 3 years ago

    Got to say, you are lucky Smelly. MobyGames have missed out far more of my games than they have online! Even after I have emailed them to update them....... The games version of IMDB.com it isn't :(

  • smelly #19 3 years ago

    MGG : I'm listed in there under 3 different spellings of my name.. Again, they wont correct.

    My advice, just submit your details to imdb.

  • spadge #20 3 years ago

    pirates are not price sensitive. best of luck to mastertronic and these quality indie games, it's tough at retail for PC.

  • Matthew_Hornet #21 3 years ago

    20€? That's also zero Eurodollars cheaper than Steam, and I find no reason to care about this. Or the Steam version. Or the asshole (earlier) European publishers who forced 2DBoy to sell the online game in Europe with the same (ridiculous) price tag as the retail version. 20 Euros? Really? Really!?

    It's not that I don't think the game is worth 20 Euros, it's the principle that matters. 2DBoy would happily sell me the game for a few bucks less, but this arrangement is punishing me for where I was born.

  • #22 3 years ago

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  • rhubarbandcustard #23 3 years ago

    I bought this game on steam for £6.99 (possibly even cheaper, I can't recall the exact deal.)

    The point being for £7 this charming, but slight, game was a good deal.

    £15 is way too high a price for it.

    And who still buys PC games at retail?

  • chiz #24 3 years ago

    And who still buys PC games at retail?

    Me

  • canuter #25 3 years ago

    Me too. Buying downloadable games makes me feel as if I was buying vapor and my snail-speed adsl doesn't help either.

    Some people here seem to think pirates are from another planet. I'm I pirate, I guess. I use P2P networks to test games when there is no demo and I'm not sure if I will like the game or if my PC will be able to run it; or to get discontinued games. But next to me I have a shelf full of more than one hundred original games, a huge share of them bought when the price tag was lower than 20€. So yes, pirates (and non-pirates) buy more games when they are cheap.
    Edited by 1 at 18/06/09 @ 19:30