Sony Reveals New PlayStation Network Title Snakeball

Via semi-official blog Threespeech, Sony has revealed a new exclusive and original downloadable PlayStation 3 title with Snakeball, a 3D multiplayer modern take on classic 'snake' gameplay expected to hit consoles in July. A decade-long stalwart of mobile phone play, and, in fact, one of the first games to be updated by Nokia in launching its own next-gen mobile platform, 'snake' gives players control of an ever growing snake that gets longer with each collectible dot, slithering to avoid crossing their own tail. For Sony's own PlayStation 3 update (developer information has yet to be announced), the company promises "the funkiest online sport ever created," with online players gliding across "outlandishly dazzling disco floor" in their futuristic hoversnakes. Thus far three game modes have been announced -- the classic single player game to grow the longest snake possible, a 'challenge mode' which pits players against the 'fiendish defenses' of the arena, and a multiplayer mode in which up to eight snakeballers vie for top snakeballer position with "flicks from their multicoloured tails or blasts from their weapons." Sony has also announced that apart from a variety of pre-packaged Snakeball riders, players can map their own faces to their in-game personas using the newly announced PlayStation Eye USB camera. Threespeech has said that Snakeball will be released to the PlayStation Network, in the UK and Europe at least, in July of this year.