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Hampstead, NC, 23 February 2006

Digital Eel's Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, published by Shrapnel Games, has
been blazing a trail of excellence amongst critics and fans around the world, including
being nominated in not one, but two, award categories of the prestigious Independent
Games Festival (IGF), now in its eighth year. The IGF bestows accolades upon the best
of independent gaming, and this year's competition sees Weird Worlds being nominated
in both the Seumas McNally Grand Prize category and the Innovation in Audio bracket.
The possibility of Weird Worlds domination doesn't have to stop there though

GameSpot (www.gamespot.com) has been chosen to host the IGF 2006 Audience Award,
which means that Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is now nominated in three IGF
categories! Best of all, as an Audience Award you,yes YOU dear press release
reader,will determine the outcome! Vote early, vote now, and tell your accomplices.. err,
friends to vote. There is a small matter of having to register on GameSpot to access the voting,
but if taking thirty seconds to register helps Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space assume
its rightful place at the top of the Audience Award category, isn't that time well spent? We
think so too.

You can find the GameSpot 2006 IGF Audience Award page at:

www.gamespot.com/misc/igf/index.html  

For those of you who haven't yet experienced this magnificent thirty-minute space opera,
and are easily influenced by your peers, here's a sampling of what folks are saying about
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.

"As the coolest trip across the galaxy in the history of games Weird Worlds: Return to
Infinite Space is a sure-fire hit that should be in every gamer's library. It was a run-away
winner of our Adventure/Quest game of the year for 2005."-- GameTunnel

"The real seller for Weird Worlds Return to Infinite Space is the addictive, gambling
nature of picking up items and the unfolding of stories as you adventure through the
galaxy."-- Diamond Miner Mark, The Diamond Games.com

"Oh - a final testimonial to Weird Worlds strengths: as of 1am on December 22nd, I
haven't done any Christmas shopping yet. When my aggrieved girlfriend, family and
friends come at me with the communal axe, I'm blaming this."--Kieron Gillen,
Eurogamer

"Heck, you just need to buy this game. It very well may be the best $25 you spend on
games this year."-- Edward Pollard, eToychest

Complete information on Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, or any of our other
award-winning titles, can be found at www.shrapnelgames.com. There you'll also find
detailed feature listings, free demos and updates, access to our monthly newsletter, and
all the latest Shrapnel news.