Snakes on the loose

Space Invaders? Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas? Halo 2? What would you say is the world's most popular game? Could it be Snakes, the ultra-simple yet maddeningly addictive puzzler found on every early Nokia phone?

It's time has now passed thanks to current phone horsepower which almost rivals that of the PlayStation. So Nokia has given Snakes a 3D makeover and made it freely available for download or Bluetoothing between N-Gage handsets. The Finns hope to get a viral thing going whereby it gets passed from user to user as a result of word of mouth. Certainly, receiving the game over Bluetooth is a hell of a lot easier than the rigmarole involved with downloading it first to a PC and then sending it to the N-Gage.