oct 20, 2010 - "Super Meat Boy"

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Release of "Super Meat Boy." Originally released as a free Flash game on Newgrounds, Microsoft offered to port the game after it gained ~8mil plays.
This marks an early example of "commodified" indie, or publisher-funded indie. This was emblematic of a significant departure, where earlier it was more possible to identify "indie" with "independently developed."

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