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Thanks to bubbles that pop (and probably terrorism), it's not uncommon for web journalists to feel redundant in this day and age. But even so, this column feels especially redundant today in its remit of providing buying advice to the EG-reading public. [Hang on. That's what this thing is meant to do? -Ed] Because, see, chances are that you're buying Doom III whether you're particularly interested in it or not. We actually bought it subconsciously and woke up covered in cacodemon bites this morning (it probably won't surprise you to learn that we sleep with pure evil). And, despite mountains of hype for id's long awaited FPS, we can't imagine there's an informed Xbox owner out there who isn't busy tracking down a copy of The Chronicles of Riddick at this point - it does more for the genre than the last few years of PC output cobbled together have managed. And it has a bald man with milk bottles on his face slapping Chesney Hawkes around in it. Who can match that?

Sega is planning to release Sonic Mega Collection Plus on Xbox in addition to the previously announced PS2 version. The original Sonic Mega Collection is already out on the GameCube, but it doesn't feature as many games as the 'Plus' edition. Xbox seems to have the same line-up as the PS2 SKU, but just to recap, players can expect to find the following titles on the disc: Sonic the Hedgehog 1-3, Sonic & Knuckles, Sonic 3D Blast, Sonic Spinball, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine, three Sonic lock-on games, The Ooze, Comix Zone, Flicky, Ristar, and six hidden Game Gear games, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Chaos, Sonic Drift, Sonic Labyrinth, Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine and Sonic Blast. SMC Plus should ship in the US on November 2nd.

The Matrix Online developer Monolith Productions is to become part of Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment after Warner Bros. exercised its option to buy the company. Terms of the deal, which will close on October 1st, were not discussed.

Security experts have quashed reports that a pirated mobile videogame was host to the world's first malicious mobile phone virus, after it emerged that the supposed 'Trojan horse' component was originally inserted as a copy protection measure by the game's developer.

The Getaway: Black Monday is still on track for a November release in the UK, a Sony Computer Entertainment Europe spokesperson confirmed this morning, despite news overnight that the game won't make it to the US until January 2005.

Iridion developer Shin'en Multimedia is working on a Nintendo DS title called Nanostray, judging by a product page on the German developer's website. Its set to be published by Majesco in Q1 2005. See that? Eh? That's a screenshot. Possibly several.

Konami is planning to release a special edition version of Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater alongside the vanilla version in Japan this October, according to the latest sales schedule from Japanese retailer Ichibankan.

In one of his trademark low-key, almost viral marketing-esque forum posts this week, Valve Software's Gabe Newell seems to have indicated that Half-Life 2 will begin preloading to users of the developer's content delivery service Steam as early as 17th August.

We've already seen one of the films he scripted make the jump from silver screen to games machine this week in Scarface, but now one of Oliver Stone's more contemporary productions - and something he directed - looks set to make the transition thanks to Ubisoft, which this week announced a PC real-time strategy version of his forthcoming film Alexander.

Perhaps inspired by Electronic Arts' decision to mine the timeless Godfather movies for a few videogame-related dollars, Vivendi-Universal Games has now announced its intention to make a third-person shooter based on 80s epic Scarface, in which you get to play as Al Pacino's Tony Montana - and probably mumble, "Say hello to my little fwren!" whenever you pull the trigger. And now, the leg.

Ubisoft has released slightly more information about Prince of Persia 2's vaunted Free Form Fighting System, including a video interview with creative director JC Guyet, which lasts just over three-and-a-half minutes and features quite a bit of gameplay footage. You can download the video interview from Eurofiles now, assuming 18MB isn't too much to ask.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe has declined to comment on reports that a successor to first party survival horror title Siren is in development. According to various websites, the sequel to Siren - known as Forbidden Siren in Europe - will be unveiled in the next issue of Japanese games magazine Famitsu. If it is, we'll be sure to let you know. In the meantime, you can remind yourself about Forbidden Siren by reading our review here.

With Counter-Strike: Source rolling out at the various cyber cafés that make up Valve's Cyber Café Programme today, we thought you might find it useful to know that a number of these venues are dotted around the UK and Europe.

Publisher Majesco has told US website GameSpot that Oscar winning thesp Ben Kingsley has signed on to play vampire overlord Kagan in Uwe Boll's movie adaptation of BloodRayne.

Xbox Live owners can finally get their hands on downloadable content for Ninja Gaiden this week, as Tecmo's "Hurricane Pack Volume I" muscles in to swallow our bandwidth.

Activision's movie licensed Spider-Man 2 has taken the number one spot in the UK software sales charts for a fifth week, making it the title with the longest innings at the top since Need for Speed Underground last Christmas.

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Time is an abstract concept when there's work to be done. For example, take this feature. A whole hour has just disappeared into the ether in the blink of an eye counting the raindrops outside. By the time you've finished reading this sentence you'll probably have grown a beard. When there's work to be done and the deadline's looming, you can be sure some pesky officer of time has pointed his remote control at our faces and pressed fast forward while putting our hands on pause. Must. Break. Free. Actually, we blame Microsoft for sending us an early playable demo of its latest stab at platforming in the shape of Blinx 2.

The Army Men brand may well apply to the toy soldiers we played with for all of ten minutes at some point in our youth, but as we've grown older it's become far more synonymous with mediocre videogames. Ubiquitous and generally half-arsed, they became something of a joke amongst the hacks over the years, particularly with those who'd followed the franchise from the very start of 3DO's ill-fated plastic putsch.

Square Enix has registered another inexplicable name at the US Patent & Trademark Office, and some eagle-eyed boffin has dug it up. Registered on July 26th, "Dawn of Souls" is the name, and we have no idea what it is, but it seems to be related to game software and accessories, unsurprisingly. Still, that doesn't mean it's a new Square RPG or anything obvious like that - in fact, we're guessing it's a mechanical pigeon developed to try and save the world from the impending invasion of the giant ants. Because we're tired.

Build-up to the increasingly eye-catching Game Stars Live consumer games show this September continued this week, as Vivendi-Universal Games and Britsoft publisher Digital Jesters both unveiled their line-ups.

Rockstar has released a few more Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas screenshots and details as part of its carefully orchestrated publicity campaign for the game everybody expects to clean up this October. The latest shots focus on specific areas in Los Santos - one of the three cities that make up the state of San Andreas, in this case modelled on Los Angeles - and also show off main character CJ's new swimming ability.

Microsoft will not be running its traditional European Xbox press event this year, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to our sister site gamesindustry.biz this afternoon. Instead, offices in individual territories will run their own smaller events to showcase games to each country's press and trade.

Former Final Fantasy series director Hironobu Sakaguchi's independent development studio Mist Walker is working on a pair of new role-playing games, Sakaguchi himself has revealed in an interview on a Japanese website.

Valve has begun preloading the beta version of Counter-Strike: Source to various cyber cafés this week, and plans to launch the first phase of the test for folks in these venues on Wednesday, August 11th - i.e. tomorrow.

Nintendo of America has launched an official website for Pikmin 2, highlighting the fact that the game is due out in the States this August 30th and giving you the chance to see some new footage of the game in action.

Gran Turismo 4 on the PlayStation Portable will be as straight a port of its PS2 progenitor as possible, according to series creator Kazunori Yamauchi, and should include the same volume of features and run comparably well.

Polish developer Heaven X has announced a PC first-person shooter called Alex Carver: Futurebrighter, starring a cynical, sarcastic convict who's hell bent on "saving his ass" using a vast arsenal of rather horrible-sounding armaments. In keeping with his bitchy persona, Carver will also have plenty of witty words for his adversaries, as he trails around the edge of the universe visiting prison ships and mysterious planets, and, according to Heaven X, success there will often depend on "tactics, reflex and use of enemy premises and vehicles". Other than that we don't know a great deal, other than Heaven X reckons it will look fabulous - you can judge for yourself thanks to the lone screenshot we've seen so far, which ought to be lurking over there [gestures left] - and that it's due out some time in 2005.

Sega has released a new two-minute trailer for Worms Forts Under Siege, featuring around 90 seconds of in-game footage showing off the new fort-versus-fort approach to worming - and a significant number of the game's 30 showpiece weapons.