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It is our truly sad duty to inform the Mac gaming world of the passage of Bill “Phosphorous” Sears, artist extraordinaire of Digital Eel. Bill passed away yesterday evening due to complications from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife and two children.

Bill provided the absolutely stunning, wild, and insane art and music that is part of what makes Digital Eel’s games what they are. Though we know that this development company will continue forward, change will be unavoidable. We here at iGame Radio morn the loss of this artist who worked hard to stay true to his art. Please enjoy some of the really ingenious stuff he has created. And remember Phosphorous.

Here’s a weird bit of news. Developer Digital Eel sent us a note to let us know that their free strategy sci-fi game Strange Adventures in Infinite Space has just been updated…to Mac OS X Lion!
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Digital Eel releases two of their soundtracks for recently released game Data Jammers: FastForward. Check out the tunez from Nightmare Band, Digital Eel’s inhouse musicians.
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Data Jammers: FastForward has been released. Digital Eel’s data arcade game has initially been released for Windows, with a Mac version soon to follow.

In Data Jammers, you are an elite virtual commando named Data DOOD (stands for Digital Operative Optical Data). Your job is to defend the data stream by infiltrating the military industrial complex, Ouroboros, and destroy it. The game is set within continuously moving three dimensional retro wireframe driving tracks which are populated by numerous dangers, hazards, and boss guardians along the way.
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Today Omaha reviews the iOS game Hypnoblocks by Ambrosia Software, the iPad game Soup du Jour by Digital Eel and Dreamrock Studios, and the iPhone game Shake Spears by Alawar Entertainment.
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Digital Eel’s upcoming data arcade game Data Jammers: FastForward has hit the Gold Master mark and will soon be released. The game will initially have both online and offline versions available, as well as a three level demo.

You are an elite virtual commando named Data DOOD (stands for Digital Operative Optical Data). Your job is to defend the data stream by infiltrating the military industrial complex, Ouroboros, and destroy it. The game is set within continuously moving three dimensional retro wireframe driving tracks which are populated by numerous dangers, hazards, and boss guardians along the way.

Features include increasingly challenging environments, critters and hazards per level, a hands-on tutorial, 3D visuals, and a zen-like audio soundtrack. The game will support both game controllers and keyboard play.

The Data Jammers: FastForward trailer is below, and does a great job of capturing gameplay.

Data Jammers: FastForward is Digital Eel’s tenth anniversary game. The game will come out first for Windows, with a Mac version soon to follow.

Soup Du Jour for the iPad is the latest from Digital Eel. This matching game includes rubbery physics, stretchy sound effects, and promised rule-breaking gameplay. Colorful shapes fall into your pot, and you tug and toss them together to burst the matches. Beware the pesky Kitchen Gremlin that adds in explodee things, though. You can grab the game from the App store for $1.99.

Golden Arrow Studio has released Mr. BBQ, a platform collection game in which a vigilante pig negotiates the urban sprawl to collect bbqs and save all porcine kind from the firey demise. You have to defeat traps to move from one level to the next, but get powerups to help you along the way. The graphics are simple, hand-drawn visuals where even the enemies are cute. The game is downloadable for $1.99.

The Marbians, a game for iPhone/iPod Touch and iPad, was released last week. A physics-based marble themed puzzler from Nordisk Film, players can send marble-like Marbians careening off walls and around obstacles to collect moon rocks, racking up points to eventually reach their UFO homes. Though the game is initially free to download, this will only get you the first 6 levels. Continued play includes a cost…$0.99 for the iPhone version, $1.99 for the iPad version. This has already rubbed some people the wrong way, as the biggest complaint from low star reviews so far is this issue.

Ready to listen to some rockin’ game tunez? Like free stuff? Then you are ready to download Digital Eel’s Indie game soundtrack collection VooDoo Interface.

This collection of favorite music moments from Digital Eel history features soundtrack music from Brainpipe, Dr. Blob’s Organism (available for FREE!), Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, Digital Eel’s Big Box of Blox (also available for FREE!) and a special guest game.

All music is available in all popular formats, including MP3, FLAC, etc. Though the VooDoo Interface soundtrack is ostensibly free, Digital Eel is looking for donations and is hoping that you will be willing to drop a few pennies (dollars) into the jar for them. The music is awesome, and well worth a few bucks. You can listen to some of the tracks for free before making a decision, too.

Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space has returned…to iPad! Those crazy folks at Digital Eel have explored the finite innards of the Apple device to discover potentially infinite complexity…or at least potentially infinite financial possibilities.

Customized for the iPad touch-screen, Weird Worlds: RtIS takes you from a down and out starship captain to an intergalactic hero through randomly generated star maps. Choose from one of three ships to explore the galaxy and beat down those aliens, find the loot, and watch stars collapse. If, you know, that’s your thing.

Each game is designed to play just under 30 minutes with a quick learning curve. Customize your ship with weapons and artifacts discovered through exploration or won through battle in a turn-based system.

Weird Worlds: RtIS uses Game Center for lederboard and achievement tracking. The game is available today for the iPad on the iTunes App Store for $4.99.

Among the entries into the IGF that I mentioned earlier is one by Digital Eel, Data Jammers: Fastforward. The game looks like a mashup between an arcade game and a music style game, and well within the weird development meme that Digital Eel uses for their games.

I have confirmation from the developer that the game is intended to be released “before Tron’s release in theaters” and that there will be a Mac version, though it will come out after the Windows version.

Also, on a side note, a little birdie tweeted in my ear over the weekend something about Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space and the iPad. Could it be that we might see the two together? Hmmm…..