Handheld gaming has come a long way since hecklerspray were kids. Back then, it was a cup attached to a ball by a bit of string, and if you didn't bloody well like it was straight to bed with no pudding.

So reports of a release date for the latest for the handheld Playstation, the PSP, have got us more excited than a busload of Brownies going to a Mark Owen concert.

Creeekit! Here's a new online cricket game - Stick Cricket.

You can play in head-to-head competitions and knockout tournaments. There's a high scores chart too, currently headed up by one Jamie Longmore from England (three tons up, and then some).

You are in bat. You use the arrow keys to smash a six out of the ground or play a forward-defensive stroke. That's it, Bubba... four keys to master. Timing

You can invite friends to be shot at or just get in on the action

It's Friday, so here's a game for hungover people and other shirkers to play (Thursdays are the new brown, or something).

Instructions: You race a car over jumps, using only two keys (left and right arrows) to accelerate or brake. It's that easy. You can invite friends to play you in a league and there's a world ranking too, so see how well you do.

Everyone who has ever seen 24 wants to be Jack Bauer. Hecklerspray wants to be Jack Bauer, you want to be Jack Bauer, and your Mum definitely does.

He's so cool with his guns and his fast cars and his annoying daughter and his dead wife and his crying and his drug problem and his need never to go for a slash.

Good for us, then, that Sony and Fox are going to turn the most implausible TV show in the world into the most implausible computer game. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you 24: The Game, for Playstation 2.

Excellent fun for any bored call centre operatives or suchlike, this link will take you a mind-crushing 270 question music quiz.

Simply look at the images, identify and write the name of the artist in the appropriate boxes (spelling is crucial).

At the time of writing hecklerspray has a score of 141/134, with a few typos to correct, so we're heading for

hecklerspray once lived with a boy who fantasised about sleeping with an alien. One with tenticles, preferably. How we hated him. He had a thing for Jessica Rabbit, too. The git.

But it looks like he wasn't alone in wanting to knock boots with vaguely sci-fi females. For reasons unknown to anyone with a shred of common decency, The Sun newspaper has published a survey to find the 'Sexiest Ever Superheroine'...

Yes, it’s true. No sooner had Bradley, the leader of my SAS team-of-four, escaped from his cell in an Iraqi POW camp after it was hit by a laser-guided bomb dropped from an allied stealth bomber, he managed to get stuck in a dimly lit pile of cardboard boxes behind a secluded shed.