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This week’s gaming news post covered Cave Story for the Wii, an independent game that’s recently hit it big. A lot of indie games are awesome like Cave Story, and even free to download or play online! Here are a few free indie games that are just as good as a lot of regular games.

• Spelunky – Maybe the best free game ever made. You explore randomly generated caves for treasure and adventure, and the game just never gets old. I could play this until the end of time.
• Knytt – Explore a new world with sweet platformer gameplay. Give it some time to grow on you.
• RunMan: Race Around the World – It’s been described as “what an even better Sonic game would be like.” That’s some high praise, there.
• Dino Run – Escape the apocalypse! Also, dinosaurs!

For this week’s game releases post, we talked about the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles, Eat! Fat! Fight!, and Fast Food Panic. Eat! Fat! Fight! is a sumo wrestling game on Wiiware, and I thought that there had to be more sumo wrestling games out there. Well, there is an independent game called Sumotori Dreams on the PC, and it’s pretty awesome, especially if you have a friend to play against. There’s a demo, and then the full game is $4.50 beyond that. It won’t allow you the pleasure of training your own wrestler like Eat! Fat! Fight!, but it’s definitely worth downloading the demo.

AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, mentioned in this week’s gaming news post, is another sort of independent game with an extremely eye-catching title. In the game, you go skydiving off of skyscrapers, trying to go through rings and stuff to get extra points. You can get it cheap off of Steam (game download program that comes with Valve titles like Half-Life, but you can download it on your own) before it comes out, I’ve played the demo, and it’s really fun. Don’t expect it to be realistic or anything, though.