Time for a bit of patriotic support for a young British indie studio. Beatnik Games are hard at work putting the finishing touches on their debut title Plain Sight, and I think it has the potential to be one of this year's surprise hits when it arrives on PC digital distribution networks this month.

Here's the lowdown on this eccentric multiplayer game. You play as a suicidal ninja robot, and your task is to kill other ninja robots, either with your katana or by blowing yourself up and catching them within your explosion field. Actually, the only way to bank frags is to explode yourself, so kamikaze is pretty much mandatory. The twist is that as you chain frags you become bigger, and you start leaving a colourful trail for people to follow you – hence Plain Sight.

What you end up with is frenetic deathmatch with a bunch of wee ninja bots and some bigger ninja bots all trying to blow each other up,  all to a backdrop of warm-hued space and really bizarre map design.

Whether or not Plain Sight hits the right balance with prolonged gameplay remains to be seen, but Beatnik Games has been fine-tuning it in beta for a several months, so there's plenty of optimism to be had. So, I say you should look out for it when on Steam and others on March 22 for a seemingly dirt-cheap $9.99. There's also PlayStation 3 and Wii releases expected in early 2011, with the potential for motion control, which all sounds exciting too.

If it proves to be an indie sensation, maybe you heard it here first. If not, well, disregard everything I just said. This never happened.