Independent game developer Wolfire has announced it willsell a bundle of five games –with a combined retail value of US$80 (NZ$111.50).However, the developer will allow the user to choose the amount they wish topay for the bundle, with some of the proceeds going to the Child's Play and theElectronic Frontier Foundation charities.

The "Humble Indie Bundle" allows gamers to specify exactly howmuch they wish to pay for the five games and also the split of revenue betweenthe developer and the charities; either an ‘even split', ‘all to the developers'or ‘all to the charities'.

The full list of games is World of Goo, Lugaru HD, Gish,Aquaria and Penumbra Overture. All are compatible with Mac, Linux and PC.

You can watch a video detailing the bundle and even viewreal-time statistics of buyer contributions at the Humble Indie Bundle page at Wolfire's official site. At the time of writing 35,803 gamers hadcontributed US$282,309; an average of US$7.89 per individual.

Thanks to Ryan Vincent for the tip!