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Strange Pre-Orders In Infinite Space

Boldly go and blow stuff up

For those of you looking for something a little off the beaten track, Digital Eel's latest oddball game Strange Adventures In Infinite Space is now available for pre-order from Cheapass Games for the princely sum of £15. As captain of a scout vessel it's up to you to "boldly blow up stuff where no one has blown up stuff before", exploring strange new worlds, encountering bizarre and often unfriendly alien lifeforms and then stealing their technology to make a quick buck. Games tend to be rather short because of the small maps, but as they're randomly generated there's plenty of replay value and every time you play the game something different (and usually rather daft) is liable to happen. If you fancy a closer look, a small 5Mb demo version of the game featuring a single non-random map to explore is available to download from the DIgital Eel website. Related Feature - Strange but true