Happy days are here again; a chance look at the Videogamer website has really cheered me up on this dreary summer morning... a new edition of Team 17's fantastic Alien Breed series is coming .

Unfortunately, it seems to be early days - there's no news about the storyline, game features or launch date...but there are three great looking screengrabs to tickle the tastebuds! Check out the sneak peek for Alien Breed Evolution here.

Eurogamer suggests it will be available in downloadable format for Xbox Live Arcade and the Playstation Network.

Regular visitors to this blog - there are some out there - will remember that Alien Breed '92 is sitting comfortably in my all-time Top 10 list in sixth place.

Hopefully, this long-awaited update will capture all the brilliance of the previous versions but without the ridiculously tough to escape meteor showers that wrecked my Alien Breed 2 experience.