Fowl play
The star of Channel 4's Big Brother series now has its own game, which is being rush-released by Scarlet Software tomorrow for PCs at £9.99. It may not have had the intensive development time of Shenmue or the Final Fantasy series, but they don't have the 11 levels of shotgun-powered combat found in Revenge Of Marjorie The Chicken.

A demo version of the game has apparently been a popular download at Marjorie's website www.marjoriethechicken.co.uk where you can order the full game.

Flip this
Flipside.com is not just a new website for online gamers, it is also the place to collect "flips" and exchange them for prizes.

Flipside has been created by merging two earlier sites, Won.net and Prizecentral.com, and the site is owned by Havas Interactive, the American consumer software giant that is a subsidiary of the huge French conglomerate, Vivendi. British players can enter the site at http://uk.flipside.com

Nostalgia
Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds Are Go-ing to appear on Nintendo's Game Boy Color next month, in a game with 22 missions to complete, courtesy of SCi.

Or, if you preferred Mr Potato Head, as brought to life in the Toy Story films, he is now starring in Mr and Mrs Potato Head Go On Holiday (www.mrpotatohead.com), an educational PC game costing £19.99.

Nowadays, of course, some people are nostalgic not for toys but for the videogames of their childhood, and Hasbro Interactive is tapping into this market with Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge, also £19.99 for the PC and PlayStation.

Swampy is a crocodile, and Frogger now has a girlfriend called Lillie. Presumably she used to be a princess...