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Full versions of The Graveyard (both Windows and Mac OS X builds) are available as free downloads for today only, so if you've played the demo earlier and liked it, then you might want to get a copy before the offer expires.

In other news, Wolfire is discounting Lugaru down to $4.95 on Direct2Drive and Mac Game Store (normally $19.95) until the 4th of November. The D2D version also comes with a HD texture pack that makes the game look slightly better on PCs with high resolution settings.

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Indie game developer Digital Eel is giving away its strategy/adventure game Strange Adventures In Infinite Space (SAIS) for free. Originally released in 2002 for PC and Mac, SAIS was a 2003 IGF finalist and the predecessor to the studio's 2006 IGF-winning game (for Innovation in Audio) Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space.

In the seven-year-old title, players "explore a randomly created universe, meet aliens, [and] acquire artifacts in the name of scientific progress and stellar manifest destiny". Designed to be played in 20 minutes in around 5-20 minutes, SAIS features 21 ship types, 69 weapons/drives/shields/gadgets/artifacts, 18 alien lifeforms, 7 alien races, and 17 kinds of planets and star types.

Digital Eel also announced that it's posted Soup du Jour -- a physics-based match-three PC game that has you clearing colorful, bouncing candy while Kitchen Gremlins send bombs and missiles in your soup pot -- for free downloads, too.

Shatter, Sidhe Interactive's Breakout/shoot'em-up PS3 game released last week, has received positive reviews not just for its well executed update of the 30-plus-year-old brick breaking formula, but also for its superb "electro rock and retro beats" soundtrack.

Local composer Jeramiah "Module" Ross worked closely with the studio for over a year to match the music with Shatter's visuals and themes, coming up with a sound reminiscent of "80’s new wave, stadium rock and intergalactic space rock opera."

Sidhe has posted the soundtrack on Bandcamp, where you can stream the 13-track release for free or purchase downloads for individual songs and the entire album. It should also hit iTunes and other digital outlets soon, and a physical CD version is also planned.