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I vote for KISS: Psycho Circus as the next bonus!
Speaking of "as fate would have it," I checked the Steam forum for Kings Bounty and discovered they dropped another patch to the game today with a fair number of additional fixes. I'm not sure what state the game is currently in following this or was in prior to it in terms of being good to play now, etc. so I posted there asking people. I'll report back if I learn anything of interest.
Heads up. The company offering the games (Kiss LTD) represents Lace Mamba Global, the former publisher of JULIA. CBE, the developer of JULIA, recently cancelled their contract after Lace Mamba refused to pay ANY royalties (allegedly claiming the game sold zero copies, even though it was on top seller lists on a few websites, though a lot of this is in dispute).

So there is a very likely chance that Kiss and Lace Mamba are including JULIA against the developer's wishes, and seeing publishers pull stunts like that makes me enraged. So if you're thinking about buying the bundle, keep this in mind.
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PenutBrittle: snip
Oh crap! I thought that I was paying to CBE not to Lace Mamba. :O Now I feel really bad. :(
Damn! So there'd be no chance of us getting a Steam key then?
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PenutBrittle: Heads up. The company offering the games (Kiss LTD) represents Lace Mamba Global, the former publisher of JULIA. CBE, the developer of JULIA, recently cancelled their contract after Lace Mamba refused to pay ANY royalties (allegedly claiming the game sold zero copies, even though it was on top seller lists on a few websites, though a lot of this is in dispute).

So there is a very likely chance that Kiss and Lace Mamba are including JULIA against the developer's wishes, and seeing publishers pull stunts like that makes me enraged. So if you're thinking about buying the bundle, keep this in mind.
Darn, that is not nice at all. This is the second incident I've heard about where Lace Mamba refused to pay. The first incident was involving Just Adventure, where they refused to pay for advertisement clicks.
Oh crap!!!!! Kings Bounty in the mix for $5 and I broke :-( Oh well, can't buy everything I suppose. Bought two bundles this month already so my own fault ;-)

The other games look interesting too.
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AFnord: Darn, that is not nice at all. This is the second incident I've heard about where Lace Mamba refused to pay. The first incident was involving Just Adventure, where they refused to pay for advertisement clicks.
Amanita Design has had problems too, apparently they haven't made a cent on Machinarium Collecter's Editions. Several other developers have hinted at issues too, but only CBE got mad enough to do something (though most sites like Greenman and GamersGate have yet to pull JULIA and still list Lace Mamba as a publisher, even though CBE contacted them about it thanks to the publishing snafu).

Allegedly Lace Mamba is in financial trouble which is delaying payments, but they won't flat out confirm it. Obviously there is no way to prove this, but the whole mess just sucks for everyone involved.
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AFnord: Darn, that is not nice at all. This is the second incident I've heard about where Lace Mamba refused to pay. The first incident was involving Just Adventure, where they refused to pay for advertisement clicks.
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PenutBrittle: Amanita Design has had problems too, apparently they haven't made a cent on Machinarium Collecter's Editions. Several other developers have hinted at issues too, but only CBE got mad enough to do something (though most sites like Greenman and GamersGate have yet to pull JULIA and still list Lace Mamba as a publisher, even though CBE contacted them about it thanks to the publishing snafu).

Allegedly Lace Mamba is in financial trouble which is delaying payments, but they won't flat out confirm it. Obviously there is no way to prove this, but the whole mess just sucks for everyone involved.
hm, J.U.L.I.A. would be mine main reason for getting this bundle. Have not done so yet, and with this news... I will investigate a little more then before buying.
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AFnord: Darn, that is not nice at all. This is the second incident I've heard about where Lace Mamba refused to pay. The first incident was involving Just Adventure, where they refused to pay for advertisement clicks.
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PenutBrittle: Amanita Design has had problems too, apparently they haven't made a cent on Machinarium Collecter's Editions. Several other developers have hinted at issues too, but only CBE got mad enough to do something (though most sites like Greenman and GamersGate have yet to pull JULIA and still list Lace Mamba as a publisher, even though CBE contacted them about it thanks to the publishing snafu).

Allegedly Lace Mamba is in financial trouble which is delaying payments, but they won't flat out confirm it. Obviously there is no way to prove this, but the whole mess just sucks for everyone involved.
Edited post:

I thought at first these people had published all the games in the bundle, my mistake. Though knowing money will be going back to a publisher pulling stuff like this will make me probably skip it.
Post edited January 29, 2013 by Fictionvision
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PenutBrittle: Amanita Design has had problems too, apparently they haven't made a cent on Machinarium Collecter's Editions. Several other developers have hinted at issues too, but only CBE got mad enough to do something (though most sites like Greenman and GamersGate have yet to pull JULIA and still list Lace Mamba as a publisher, even though CBE contacted them about it thanks to the publishing snafu).

Allegedly Lace Mamba is in financial trouble which is delaying payments, but they won't flat out confirm it. Obviously there is no way to prove this, but the whole mess just sucks for everyone involved.
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amok: hm, J.U.L.I.A. would be mine main reason for getting this bundle. Have not done so yet, and with this news... I will investigate a little more then before buying.
I sent them a mail about the issue, asking them if the money is going through Lace Mamba or directly to the devs.

Also, the Just adventure issue was over a year and a half ago, so they seem to have been rather fishy for a long time now.
I got a reply to my mail

Hi,

We have heard from others about this concern. We are working directly with a company called KISS. We were introduced to them by the folks from 1C// the King's Bounty series. We have no connection with Lace Mamba. KISS arranged for distribution of all games in this bundle.

Jonny
Post edited January 29, 2013 by AFnord
This is quite a good bundle. I have tons of games to play atm, and not much time to play them, so I'll wait to see what other bonuses are offered.

Also, I'd buy it only for Lucius and KB, so I don't really care about the J.U.L.I.A. thing. But I'd still prefer not to give my money to sleazy publishers.
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AFnord: I got a reply to my mail

Hi,

We have heard from others about this concern. We are working directly with a company called KISS. We were introduced to them by the folks from 1C// the King's Bounty series. We have no connection with Lace Mamba. KISS arranged for distribution of all games in this bundle.

Jonny
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AFnord:
Indeed, but unfortunately KISS is pretty directly tied to Lace Mamba: http://www.kiss-ltd.co.uk/links1.html
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Fictionvision: I thought at first these people had published all the games in the bundle, my mistake. Though knowing money will be going back to a publisher pulling stuff like this will make me probably skip it.
Just JULIA and Lucius. King's Bounty is published by 1C, and iBomberAttack is published by Chillingo.

EDIT: Vivisector is from 1C as well.
Post edited January 29, 2013 by PenutBrittle
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PenutBrittle: EDIT: Vivisector is from 1C as well.
... Vivisector has a link to KISS' website. So...