Christ, Lost is annoying isn't it? We've spent months and months screaming "Hanso? Pearl? Joop? Huh? Walt? WALT!" at our TV even though we know there'll be no answers for years.

And if just watching Lost wasn't confusing enough for you, you're in for a treat. Ubisoft – which made Tom Clancey's Splinter Cell – is developing a Lost videogame. Fantastic, now you can be gormlessly confused about Lost in a brand new, bleeding-edge interactive way.

Remember when TV shows were just TV shows? All they asked of you were to sit down for an hour a week and whoop at Mr T refusing to board an aircraft before allowing you to go about your daily business. Lost has shattered all that, though. As well as the hour each week where you watch Locke getting chased around by a piece of smoke interspersed with a dull flashback about why his Daddy didn't love him, Lost has expanded into a gigantic multimedia confuseathon.

There's Bad Twin, a book written by a dead character from Lost whose name is an anagram of 'Purgatory'. There's Lost Experience, a Lost-based trail of half-clues hidden in TV adverts and spinoff websites. There's Lost Video Diaries, a set of micro Lost episodes that can be downloaded to mobiles. And there's Michelle Rodriguez, who drink drives and swears at policemen, though that's probably a bit less relevant.

But that's not enough for Lost, not when there could be a Lost videogame to add another layer of bewilderment to things. Touchstone Television and Ubisoft Games yesterday announced a deal to produce the Lost videogame. Pascal Bonnet, director of licensing for Ubisoft, says that he met Lost producers JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof to discuss the project at E3 a couple of weeks ago, and that Abrams and Lindelof would be acting as executive producers on the Lost videogame:

"With our Montreal studios involved you can expect an extremely high
level game. 'Lost' is a hit all over the world and we want to bring the 'Lost'
universe to the next level."

You want some details of the Lost videogame now, don't you? Well you can't. All that's been said is that the Lost videogame will most likely be released next year, and that the cast of Lost will probably play a part in the game. And that it won't make any sense at all, and we'll end up crying because nobody will tell us if it's all just mind-control caused by electromagnets or whatever.

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[story by Stuart Heritage]