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It's been a little more than a week since Indie Game: The Movie was released to a worldwide audience via Steam and iTunes. I finally got around to watching it and I cannot recommend it more highly. When I pressed play in my iTunes window, I was expecting your typical video game documentary, but what I watched was a truly inspirational peek into the lives behind the games. These are people who make games, not because they want money or fame, but because they simply love making games. The film leaves its audience with the idea that anyone can make a game, not just the bigwigs at EA Games.

Steam, widely acknowledged to be the single best digital distribution network for PC and Mac, is taking a step into some unknown territory and selling its first ever film, the ridiculously appropriate Indie Game: The Movie. The film is available for pre-order now for a price of $8.99, but doesn't unlock until June 12th. Could this mean Steam is going to be moving into the movie space in a big way? Probably not, but with this news, you can't exactly rule it out.

Team Meat, known primarily for their punishingly difficult platformer with super tight controls, doesn't seem like it would have too much concern with the mobile gaming space. Turns out they do, and they aren't fans. The pair are actually planning a mobile Super Meat Boy, one specifically redesigned to fit the platform, but are also generally fed up with the mobile approach to game development on principle. "There is a whole sh*t load of wrong [with mobile game development] these days, from abusive and manipulative money making tactics, to flat out stealing."  And it gets even more real.

Super Meat Boy, arguably one of the best -- and hardest -- platformers of the modern era, is known for its punishing difficulty and unbelievably tight controls. That being that case, it would be perfect as a touchscreen smartphone game. Wait, would it? Team Meat thinks it could be. In a flurry of tweets today, Team Meat released some info about the upcoming Super Meat Boy mobile that might ease some of your fears, namely that it's not so much a port as a complete re-envisioning.

Releasing in a frequency that seems to now be a deluge of awesomeness, the Humble Indie Bundle 4 has arrived, bringing a new slew of multiplatform, DRM-free games at the low, low price of whatever you want to pay. As always, if you pay above the bundle's average, which is currently $4.84 at the time of writing this post, you will get a couple bonus games with your purchase. This time around, the pack is headlined by Super Meat Boy and Bit.Trip Runner, with Shank, NightySky HD, and Jamestown rounding out the bundle. The two bonus are some of the most well-known indie games, Gratuitous Space Battles and Cave Story+. So guy by the bundle, because somehow, the Humble Indie Bundle continually provides a bunch of good games for the low price of whatever.

Super Meat Boy fans have been waiting for this for a long time (and, truth be told, they've weathered some delays), and it's finally here: A full level editor for the popular indie platformer has been released on Steam, allowing players to create their own devilish levels.

Here's what you're getting: You can create levels, upload them to Super Meat World, and then vote on your favourites. You can create and upload whole chapters with custom par times, titles and music. You can choose which Super Meat Boy characters are used in your levels, selecting from the whole cast of 20 characters. The best levels and chapters will be periodically chosen by Team Meat and featured for maximum exposure.

The editor is currently available in beta, and can be accessed by PC users in Steam's "Tools" section. It won't, however, be coming to XBox Live Arcade: "No, we cant legally do a non-regulated editor on Xbla, but we will try to continue to upload new chapters to xbla via the internets." (Team Meat via IndieGames)

A few of us here at Geekosystem took a break from Minecraft to play the wonderfully difficult, hilariously bloody Super Meat Boy. While we were exploding all over buzz saws and leaving trails of slippery blood on everything we touched, Etsy user Voxelous was busy construction Super Meat Boy figurines with a 3D printer, super glue and a significant lack of slippery meat blood. The figurines, which include Meat Boy, Bandage Girl, Tofu Boy, and Brownie are on sale for $12 each plus shipping. Head on past the break to check out the rest of the 3D-printed collection.

Super Meat Boy, developed by Team Meat, is a game about Meat Boy, a boy without skin, who must save his girlfriend, Bandage Girl, from the evil Dr. Fetus. Last week, they zinged PETA. This week, their game has gotten some pretty awesome box art for its limited boxed PC release. Dave Rapoza created the meattastic explosion of buzzsaws, and has some other fine, though admittedly less meaty, artwork available over at his blog. To further appreciate Dave's art, check past the jump to see how Meat Boy usually appears.

Team Meat, developers of the platformer Super Meat Boy, slung the above little diddy toward PETA earlier, after a somewhat toxic history between the two organizations, which included PETA making their own parody of Super Meat Boy, dubbed Super Tofu Boy, which casts Meat Boy as the villain instead of the hero.