Five more games were just added to The Humble Bundle for Android #4[humblebundle.com] today. By spending more than the average, you now get Avadon: The Black Fortress[http//%2522http], Canabalt[www.adamatomic.com], Cogs[//], Swords & Soldiers HD, and Zen Bound 2, all in addition to the original six: [/i]Splice[/i], Eufloria, Waking Mars, Machinarium, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and their soundtracks!

Only one more week to go!

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We're super excited to announce that we made it into The Humble Bundle[humblebundle.com]! Through November 21st, you can pick up Splice, Eufloria, Waking Mars, Machinarium, Crayon Physics, Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, and the soundtracks for each game at a fraction of their sale prices!

[humblebundle.com]The Humble Bundle for Android #4[humblebundle.com] launched last Thursday and has since sold nearly 120,000 copies! But that’s not even the most exciting part: Splice is now available on both Android and Linux for the first time ever! Pocket Gamer announced just yesterday that by popular vote Splice is this week's iOS or Android Game of the Week[www.pocketgamer.co.uk]!

Each game in the bundle is available for Android, Linux, Mac, PC, and even Steam. Check out the system requirements[support.humblebundle.com] page to see if you device is supported.

You pick how much you want to pay for the bundle. You even get to decide where the money goes. Part of the proceeds go charity. The rest goes on to support the indie developers participating in the bundle, and to the kind folks that support and run The Humble Bundle.

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Thank you so much for your generous support, and for playing our games!

We love you!

PAX Prime[prime.paxsite.com] was awesome! Big thanks to everyone that came out to see us! It was great meeting some of you for the first time and showing off Splice[playsplice.com] one-on-one with folks. If you missed out on PAX or weren’t able to stop by the booth, there’s a great write-up on the PAX10[prime.paxsite.com] over at Geek’sDreamGirl[geeksdreamgirl.com].

Splice : Tree of Life[cpri.me] has been a big success for us since its release for the iPad on the eve of PAX. Who knew touch would have made such a difference! Kotaku named it Gaming App of the Day in the first week of release, and TouchArcade gave the game a review score of 4.5 out of 5 stars, stating that “few apps offer the elegance that is Splice : Tree of Life[cpri.me].”

IndieCade Awards

We’re totally stoked about this year’s International Festival of Independent Games, where Splice[playsplice.com] is nominated for the 2012 IndieCade Awards! If you’re in Culver City next month, come out to see us at IndieCade! We’ll have a small table setup for everyone to play Splice[playsplice.com].

Freeplay Awards

The gents over at Freeplay[www.freeplay.net.au] have selected Splice[playsplice.com] as a finalist in Australia’s Freeplay Awards[www.freeplay.net.au] as Best International Game of the year! The 2012 Freeplay Awards will be presented as part of the Freeplay Independent Games Festival on September 23 at the Order of Melbourne. As much as we would absolutely love a trip to the land down under, it just ain’t in the budget. Congrats to all the finalists!

If you missed out on the chance to snag one of the Steam game codes given away on Twitter this week—no worries—we’ve got another opportunity here for you to get your hands on free games from Cipher Prime!

The point of this challenge is to be creative with the game mechanics. We want to see what interesting imagery people can come up with given the structures available in Splice. We’ll be selecting up to 7 screenshots to be featured as downloadable desktop backgrounds. Entries should be taken at the highest resolution available and in full-screen mode .

Take screenshots using the Steam client and add them to your Steam profile’s library of screenshots. To submit your entry, post a link of the full-size screenshot image to the Splice Screenshot Challenge forum thread. If you can wow the pants off us, we’ll offer you up a free Steam key to one of Cipher Prime’s games of your choosing. Exceptional screenshots will be credited with your name and made available for download as desktop backgrounds through this group page (see the Game Art section below).

The challenge will continue until all 7 screenshots have been chosen. So fire up Steam, hop on into Splice, start feverishly mashing that F12 key, and show us what you got!

Ready. Set. Post away!

Winning Entries
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• EPILOGUE.301 by Neil Sardesai (1920x1080)
• SEQUENCE.307 by Andrew Isley (1280x800)
• SEQUENCE.??? by Brandon Keech (1366x768)
• EPILOGUE.??? by Tyler Krof (1280x720)
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You know what this means, don't you? We're going to be at PAX Prime[prime.paxsite.com] this year! Splice being selected as one of the winning PAX 10 entries for 2012[prime.paxsite.com] is a huge achievement for us! And we couldn't be happier.
For the next 13 hours, you can still get Splice packaged with 4 other amazing indie games for only $10 in the Steam Indie Bundle II.

Also, as part of the Steam Summer Sale, all of Cipher Prime's games on Steam are on sale at half-price. This includes Auditorium, Fractal: Make Blooms Not War, Splice, the Flight of Angels[cipherprime.bandcamp.com] OST album in the Splice Soundtrack DLC, and the Splice Soundtrack Edition bundle.

Get em while they're hot! Sales ends Monday, July 23rd.

As you well know, the Steam Summer Sale is now in full swing. Which is an amazing opportunity for you to get your hands on Splice if you haven't already. As part of the Steam Indie Bundle II, you get Splice in addition to 4 other amazing indie games for just under $10!

Splice is also available individually at half-price if you prefer. This also goes for the Splice Soundtrack DLC and the Soundtrack Edition of Splice (which includes the DLC).

All of Cipher Prime's games are on sale at 50% off for the duration of the Steam Summer Sale, which ends Monday, July 23rd.

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Updates to Splice, Splice Demo, and Splice Soundtrack have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted.

Major changes include the following:

• Fixed all issues related to unlocking achievements. With this update, any achievement that was previously earned but not unlocked will automatically unlock upon entering the game. This includes any achievement earned while playing the Splice Demo. Achievements are not supported in the demo, but will unlock automatically upon running the full version of Splice.
• Added support for Steam Cloud. All progress is now saved to the cloud, including any progress made prior to this update. This feature is supported in both the demo and the full version of Splice.
• Added FLAC (in addition to MP3) format audio files to the Splice Soundtrack DLC.

To acces the Splice Soundtrack DLC audio files, navigate to the Splice install directory.

For Windows users:
C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\splice\soundtrack
For Mac users:
~/Library/Application Support/Steam/SteamApps/common/splice/soundtrack/

On Wednesday evening, the winners of the 2011 Intel Level Up Game Demo Contest[software.intel.com] were officially announced[newsroom.intel.com]. Among those winners was Splice placing best in the Puzzle Genre category. The announcement was made during the Video Games Live concert at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Representatives from four of the winning teams, including Cipher Prime Studios, were able to attend E3 and appeared on stage during VGL to receive their awards.
Demos of the games were made available to play before the show at the Intel Interactive Exhibit in the lobby of the Nokia Theatre. With the support of Valve, all winning game entries have been made available as demos free to download on Steam.

Splice is currently available for pre-purchase at a sale price of $8.99. Order today and you'll also receive the Splice Soundtrack free! Offers end when Splice becomes available for download on June 14.

Well, we’ve got some very cool news! Development of Splice is going swimmingly and we’re happy to say that we were featured in Kotaku’s Indie Spotlight yesterday!

We put up a few screenshots of our latest build on our games page[cipherprime.com] and there’s a new gameplay trailer available through the Kotaku article. (More media will come in the next few days.)

We can tell you that the game will feature almost a hundred strands (puzzles), many of which are dastardly difficult to solve! You’ll also be able to enjoy fourteen new Dain Saint joints that you’ll be humming all day. Splice is an incredibly immersive experience, and if you’re a puzzle person, we promise you frustration and sweet, sweet mental victories!

The game is going to be released on Steam for PC/Mac on June 13, and pre-orders (which will include Splice’s official soundtrack and a discount) will be available June 6!

Stay tuned for more Splice!