The talented lads at Team Meat, the independent development studio behind the awesome Super Meat Boy, have just launched Super Meat World as part of a huge update for the Steam version of the game.

The Facts:

• Super Meat World is a bonus chapter that unlocks with 20 bandages (it's to the left of ch1).
  
• Super Meat World is a full level portal that allows you to play custom
  made chapters and single levels designed by users, other dev teams, and team meat.
  
• Super Meat World launched at 10am today with 8 new chapters (over 140
  levels, bringing the level total beyond 500!)
  
• Super Meat World is a work in progress, more features will be added as
  time passes.
  
• Super Meat World is 100% FREE.

The game is also now 50% off on Steam, and is also part of Steam's Potato Sack promo, meaning you can get it for 75% off as well. Moreover, this is just one update of three large ones, and the team are promising to release a public beta for the Super Meat Boy level editor in the next few days that will allow creators to build levels and upload them with relative ease.

Once the Editor is stable we will finally release the last feature to Super Meat World, "The Unknown". The Unknown is a bonus feature of SMW that will create a full chapter from randomly chosen users levels (with favorable scores) to basically turn Super Meat World into an endless sea of RAGE!

If you get in on any of the level editor goodness, be sure and drop us a line in the Comments section, and if you haven't checked out this awesome game yet, there's no better time than right now (honestly, it's awesome).