SPOnG had a good long play on the awesome Ninja Gaiden Sigma on PS3 yesterday - due to hit these shores early in July courtesy of Tecmo and UK publisher Eidos - and we are happy to report that it is one of the best exclusive PS3 games we’ve played to date - an unashamedly hardcore gamer's game.

If you don’t have a PS3 yet, Ninja Gaiden Sigma may well be the reason you have been looking for to start saving up for one.

Now, there may be those who think that it is time that the games industry grew up and stopped denigrating women by representing them as evil, vicious, sex-vixen ninjas. Take the example we have pictured here of the poor model who Eidos had hired yesterday to dress up as the new playable character, Fiend-Hunter Rachel from Ninja Gaiden Sigma in a sexy leatherette evil, vicious, sex-ninja costume.

To those people who might claim this is somehow degrading to womenkind, SPOnG would say one thing. Shut up! Stop reading Andrea Dworkin and get out of the 1970s.

In fact, perhaps the most amazing thing about yesterdays event was the fact that all the journalists there were far more interested in playing the game than staring at this “poor, oppressed” model's garbonzas. Oh, well we admit, we did have a little stare out of the corner of our eye.

Watch out for Ninja Gaiden Sigma in early July, here are the latest screens. It is incredibly hard, incredibly sexist and incredibly cool.

And watch out for SPOnG's preview and exclusive interview with the guys from Tecmo to follow later today.