The Humble Indie Bundle has returned for another round of charitable independent video gaming! Back for a third installment, the Humble Indie Bundle is a charitable fund that brings indie games together for a great cause.

So why are we excited about the return of the Humble Bundle? If you've never heard of this before, or if you just don't remember, the Humble Indie Bundle is a pay-what-you-want package of independent video games. But more than that, it's also a charitable cause.

When "purchasing" the Humble Bundle you'll have the option to pay as much as you'd like. You can write in your own amount, pay the average amount that everyone else has paid (or select the option to pay one dollar more than the average to try to get the average up) $25, or $50. There's even a leaderboard where the largest contributors are listed.

Then, you can use a gauge to determine how much of your purchase goes to which causes. You could, for instance, give 33% to Child's Play, 33% to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and 33% to the developer (and that final 1% can go to the Humble Bundle company which sets up the whole thing.)

The games on sale in this iteration of the bundle are VVVVV, Cogs, Crayon Physics, And Yet It Moves, and Hammerfight, which are all interesting and fun independent games.

This sale always brings out the very best in video gamers, especially the wealthy ones. Right now the top contributor has given a colossal $2718, and goes by the name @witnessgame (good work, dude/dudette!) while second place is at an extremely respectable $2000 from @notch. Go beat those puny donations down a few places, Mac|lifers! They've got a gauge that shows how much the games sold for on each platform (Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux) and currently Mac is in second place far behind Linux.