At least with football, there is scope to include new transfers, stadia and - for spotters - the latest kits. Marketing shenanigans aside, updating a snooker game must be a largely thankless task.

Furthermore, that game also features snooker, and this one also features pool. Not our problem, though more sinister is the fact that the same developer has also completed World Championship Pool 2004, which has now mysteriously been put back until August. Rapidly becoming something of a fixture on the PC sporting calendar, Codemasters' snooker-based affair has again missed the tournament from which it draws its name.