Worms wage war on DS

Worms are gross. They wriggle in unnatural ways, crawl around in your intestinal tract and in some cases, burst forth from gigantic sand dunes and devour your Fremen troops. I may be confusing my fictional and non-fictional worms here, but the fact of the matter is that worms are one of the lesser adored creepy creatures on the planet, slotting in somewhere between tarantulas and Anne Heche. With that in mind, it's rather miraculous that developer Team 17 have made such a success out of their hilarious strategic combat series, Worms.

Now under the THQ umbrella, Worms Open Warfare is set to debut on both the DS and PSP, continuing the long-running franchise's wacky traditions that mainly revolve around squeaky smacktalking and exploding sheep. The graphics promise to go with a "2.5D" approach, only rendering the backgrounds in 3D whilst constricting movement to the 2D plane. The DS version will happily support multiplayer combat (which is what the games have always trumpeted) with up to 4 players playing from a single cart...or pak, if we must to use that word. No information on online Wi-Fi capabilities yet, but we'd be very angry indeed if such an opportunity was wasted.