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News Blips for Wednesday, August 03, 2011: Call of Duty XP attendees will get a free copy of Modern Warfare 3; Blizzard is changing the StarCraft 2 demo to StarCraft 2: Starter Edition; Humble Indie Bundle 3 now includes Humble Indie Bundle 2; and more.

In this week's indie-themed episode of the Mobcast, Area 5's Matt Chandronait, Cryptic Sea's Alex Austin, and Runt Inc.'s Richard Horne join Bitmob's Brett Bates. The crew discusses their most anticipated indie titles, how consoles limit creativity and distribution, what consumers look for in a non-mainstream game, and more.

News Blips for December 20, 2010. Square Enix plans to release a Secret of Mana iPhone port sometime this month, Call of Duty: Black Ops DLC gets a release month, Microsoft isn't a fan of the Kinect sex game, and more.

While big-time games developers will spend insane amounts of time working on a convoluted narrative for Middle East FPS Generica Part 3, a lone indie developer from Sweden has hit on the secret behind great interactive storytelling.