Caveman Rock takes DS back to the Stone Age

Lexicon Entertainment has announced it will be publishing Caveman Rock on DS, as well as Wii, in early 2009.

You should ditch any hopes of a game that recreates the good old days though, when a man could walk around in public in little more than an animal-print loincloth without fear of recrimination from his neighbours, because Caveman Rock is a strictly puzzle-based affair. There's no clubbing dinosaurs or slinging helpless women over your shoulder here.

Instead the game is described as a casual puzzle game. Lava rocks slowly descend onto the DS screen, and your job is to fire more coloured rocks at them and line up three like-coloured ones to make them disappear. Hmm, sounds a little familiar.

Obstacles get in your way throughout and - as incentive to get through the game's 99 levels - you can accumulate money, which can be used to buy help from a (friendly) dinosaur.

The game has four distinctively play modes - Story, Survival, Puzzle and Time Attack - and also a specific mode for multiplayer head-to-head bouts.

On top of the Story mode's 99 levels, Puzzle mode features another 50 levels. We're thinking you won't be finishing this one in too great a hurry.

You can check out new screenshots of Caveman Rock above. We'll bring you more news on it between now and its early 2009 release date.