'Friends' star reveals 'Fallout 3' injury

Friends star Matthew Perry has revealed that he played Bethesda's Fallout 3 so much on the Xbox 360 that he injured his hand.

The 39-year-old actor told a US talkshow that lengthy sessions playing the game led to him suffering tendonitis in his hand, which had to be treated with steroid injections in hospital.

He explained: "I play a lot of video games; I play a lot of Xbox 360. I played Fallout 3 so often I had to go get injections in my hand."

The incident mirrors an episode of Friends when Perry's character Chandler Bing suffered a hand injury while trying to beat a high score on the Ms Pac Man arcade game.

Perry also said in the interview that any potential future girlfriend of his would "have to be a video game player".