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I haven't been watching coverage of this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, but there is one newly announced game that has attracted my attention. Apparently, Evil Genius will take the base-building genre back to the seventies, to let players establish a complex from which to take over the world. Are you pondering what I'm pondering? Deathtraps. Henchmen. Cloning chambers. Shrink rays. The works.

In another twist to play on the humor in the game, you can actually become a more famous evil genius by doing the cliché things we've all come to expect from evil geniuses. For example, your notoriety will increase if, after capturing an enemy agent, you go and spill your plans to destroy the world and walk away before you see his ultimate extermination.

I'm stroking my, umm, long-haired white cat just thinking about it.