If you are a PS3-owner and haven’t played Wii Sports and are secretly a little jealous when your Wii-owning friends talk about what joyous fun it is, then the news that Sony has announced a next gen, motion-controlled downloadable bowling game for PlayStation Network called High Velocity Bowling (pictured) will brighten up your day.

Sony has announced that High Velocity Bowling will make full use of the Sixaxis' motion controls. Holding the controller with your thumb between the analog sticks, the player sweep his or her arm along an arc while holding and releasing a button to send your ball crashing down the lane into the pins.

This all sounds a bit weird (holding a PlayStation controller with one hand?!), but we’ll reserve judgement until we get a hands on with the game out at E3 in July. Pricing, release dates and so on to follow shortly, though expect it to be available for around the price of a few lagers sometime later this year.