Codemasters announced that they will be publishing the next iteration in the Worms series and that the upcoming title is in development at Team 17. According to the press release, Worms 4: Mayhem will launch in the second quarter of 2005 and will be released on the PS2, Xbox and PC.

With players controlling the worms in single player or 4-player team games, everyone’s armed with a massive variety of wild weapons, as ingenious as they are incendiary.

And for the first time in any Worms game, you can let your imagination run riot and create your own weapons! Using a genius device, called Weapons Factory, you’ll be able to create your own weapon and enjoy the freedom to annihilate your opponents in your own unique way. You want to make Exploding Chickens or Toilet Bombs? You got it.

More information can be found at this link.