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And the lists just keep on coming. This time its Sega, whose line-up consists of a lot of previously announced titles (including recent unveilings Sega SuperStars and OutRun 2) and a couple we were aware of but probably haven't written anything about yet (Otogi 2 and Sonic Mega Collection Plus - the latter being a collection of Sonic titles much like the Cube Mega Collection). There's also a PC port of Sonic Heroes, and some external projects like Sports Interactive pairing Football Manager 2005 and Eastside Hockey Manager, Warhammer Online and Team 17's Worms Forts Under Siege.

Codemasters blah blah latest publisher blah blah E3 line-up blah blah lots of games blah blah - wait, what's this? Apparently in a commendable attempt to deviate from the traditional formulaic approach to promoting titles at the world's biggest gaming trade show, Britsoft favourite Codemasters is planning a live webcam feed from the show floor, which should be available from www.codemasters.com/e3live from next Wednesday when the show starts, and offers a window to the publisher's games.

You'd think the folks at THQ needed some of us to buy its games. Not so, according to the company's E3 line-up, which loudly confesses to the publisher's secret desire to "Destroy All Humans!" Presumably not until after E3 however, where the title-we-just-made-a-crap-joke-about debuts alongside an EyeToy-enabled Nicktoons game, Full Spectrum Warrior, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, The Punisher, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and various other titles.

LucasArts has unveiled its E3 line-up for 2004, and as you might imagine what with Episode III about a year away, the Force is somewhat strong in this one. In fact, four of the five titles mentioned in this week's Lucasrelease are Star Wars-based, including the one we've all been waiting for, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, which will be officially unveiled at the show and should launch in the States next February on Xbox and PC. Then again, if you read our preview, you already knew that.

Tekken 5, Time Crisis: Crisis Zone, Ace Combat 5 and XenoSaga Episode II will be amongst the biggest hitters on Namco's E3 stand this year, the publisher announced today, along with the likes of Death by Degrees, Dead to Rights II and a clutch of RPGs.

Mario Sunshine co-director Yoshiaki Koizumi will be on hand at E3 this year to promote a new, as-yet-unannounced Nintendo title, according to reports originating with 1UP.com this week. Koizumi, a long-time servant of the Kyoto-based developer whose past credits include The Wind Waker and even Super Mario Kart (on which he was an illustrator), will reportedly be speaking to the press alongside Mario Sunshine assistant director Takao Shimizu, although we have no details on the product - or even which platforms it will be targeting.

War, superheroes and movie licenses - Activision's E3 line-up is a fair mix, and offers more for PC fans than a lot of its rivals seem to be laying on. DOOM III will of course make an appearance (both on PC and Xbox), and in the FPS stakes it's joined by the Call of Duty expansion pack United Offensive (in development at Gray Matter). Just as interesting though will be the sights of Rome: Total War and Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, the latter of which is of course based on Valve's Source Engine technology.

For some reason we can't be bothered to go into, Konami's Tokyo (TYO) and Japan (JPN) studios have announced separate line-ups for this year's E3 trade show, which unite in a manner not unlike Devastator to stomp on their enemies and bring chaos and disorder to the planet.

With just over a week to go, Square-Enix has joined the growing ranks of publishers to announce a tentative line-up for the E3 trade show, and in addition to the likes of Final Fantasy XII (now due in 2005), Kingdom Hearts II and Front Mission 4, the Japanese developer/publisher is expected to make a couple of big announcements. So, we might as well start rumour-mongering before some of our competition gets in there - let's have Final Fantasy VII on the PSP for a start, a new Chrono title, and then how about a full-blown next-generation Mana game?

Half-Life 2 will appear at E3 in video form only for the second year running, publisher Vivendi-Universal Games has confirmed, extinguishing any last embers of hope that Valve's "summer 2004" target might mean a surprise pre-show release. (Which, let's face it, wasn't exactly likely in any event, whatever the fanboys thought.)

SNK Neo Geo USA is planning a big E3 showing this year including a number of new and previously unseen titles - and for the company's fans, it's difficult to know where exactly to begin. Beat-'em-up fans will want to celebrate the announcement of Samurai Shodown 5 and Samurai Shodown 5 Special for PS2 and Xbox (arcade versions of which will be playable alongside early PS2 code), but shoot-'em-up fans will be relishing the chance to go hands on with Metal Slug 3 on Xbox and Metal Slug Advance on Nintendo's GBA handheld.

Korean publisher NCsoft has joined the ranks of publishers currently announcing E3 line-ups, confirming a number of anticipated titles and announcing a couple of new projects, including a brand new Mad Max-style massively multiplayer near-future-car-combat-'em-up sort of thing.

Sony Computer Entertainment America has rather unexpectedly launched its official E3 website over the weekend, and in the process revealed rather more about the line-up than it had perhaps planned. Although the front page of the site and the game index lists only 21 titles (some old, some new), clicking through to a game and then changing the two-digit number on the end of the website address will take you to various pages the platform holder obviously hadn't planned to publicise just yet.

Half western, half horror title Darkwatch and TV show-based The Shield will be among the key titles on Sammy Studios' E3 stand this year, as the publisher shows off its biggest ever portfolio of games - including some from US-based internal development, and others courtesy of Sammy Japan's licensing efforts. Sure, it's not the sort of line-up that will have Electronic Arts quaking in its enormous boots, but it is well worth keeping an eye on.

Not to be outdone by... everybody else... DreamCatcher Games has announced its E3 line-up this week. DreamCatcher is one of those publishers who seem to be on the up lately, with a nice mix of interesting PC titles - the recently released Painkiller (which placed respectably in the UK Charts this week) proving in the eyes of CEO Richard Wah Kan that "we're serious about our action titles."

EA is to show six of its biggest games to press in California tomorrow ahead of May's nuclear games show, the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

US developer Point of View has denied rumours that it has started work on a game based on Kiefer Sutherland juggernaut 24, but has admitted that the Fox product it is beavering away on, The Shield, will cut close to the acceptability bone in every respect.

With E3 just weeks away line-ups for the show are starting to appear, and Cenega has joined the list of publishers vying for column inches to showcase its, um, showcase. We are of course only too happy to oblige. Cenega will be situated in the Kentia Hall (booth 6021), and its 2004 line-up will be supported by a first look at a couple of the publisher's big titles for 2005, which - judging by the press release - will probably appear on PC and next-generation consoles.

April is traditionally the month that publishers start to announce their line-ups for the Electronic Entertainment Expo, and this morning Ubisoft became the first to unveil its plans in any detail. It's an arresting line-up, too. In fact, the French publisher stands a decent enough chance of having one of the most exciting line-ups at the show full stop. No wonder it was in such a hurry to come clean.

According to a report at Polygon by way of Dorimaga, Shenmue creator Yu Suzuki plans to unveil several new projects at E3 2004 in Los Angeles next May.

Sony Online Entertainment has announced another expansion pack for interminably popular MMORPG EverQuest. "Omens of War" raises the player level cap to 70, and introduces new zones, new epic weapons (available on completion of any of 16 "epic quests"), a new task system, and some other tweaks which are covered in some detail on the game's official website. Omens of War should be available via SOE's digital distribution system in July for $30, and we'd imagine Ubisoft will pick it up as they have with previous expansions for publication in Europe. More details no doubt to follow.

Britsoft company Codemasters has confirmed that it will publish Free Radical Design's ambitious psychic action game Second Sight on PS2, Xbox and Cube later this year, following our report last month to that effect. Second Sight will be unveiled properly at E3 next week on Codemasters' stand, and the publisher has released a number of screenshots along with today's announcement. You can read our preview of the game from February here.

Details of Vivendi's forthcoming Predator title have crept imperceptibly into the open this week courtesy of an official webpage uncovered by 1UP. "Predator: Concrete Jungle" is a third-person action game in development at Eurocom for PS2 and Xbox, and forms part of VU Games' E3 line-up, confirmed this week.

Activision plans to release a sequel to Tony Hawk's Underground (THUG) within the current fiscal year (which runs until March 31st 2005), according to comments made by chairman and CEO Robert Kotick in the publisher's latest financial report.

Speculation that Sony is preparing to unveil the sequel to ICO - one of the PS2's most beautifully emotive and absorbing adventure titles - looks set to increase as we close in on next week's E3 trade show, following a report on Quiter that claims Sony Computer Entertainment registered "NICO" as a trademark in Japan towards the end of February.

Rockstar has announced Midnight Club 3: DUB Edition for PS2 and Xbox, due out in both Europe and the States this Christmas, currently undergoing development at the publisher's San Diego branch (better known in the past as Angel Studios). There's currently no word on PC or Cube versions.

As part of EA's E3 line-up announcement today, the all-consuming uber-publisher finally took the wraps off Free Radical Design's TimeSplitters Future Perfect, which is now officially due out on PS2, Xbox and GameCube in early 2005 with online co-op and competitive play in the PS2 version.

Ubisoft has officially announced the final name for the latest game in The Settlers series, which previously went by the working title of The Settlers 5. According to the French publisher, The Settlers: Heritage of Kings is the name of the Blue Byte-developed strategy game, which we can look forward to playing by the end of 2004, and even sooner if we happen to make our way past Ubisoft's booth at the E3 trade show next week. For (a few) more details on the next Settlers title, look to our previous coverage, which also includes a few screenshots. More next week.

THQ has officially announced its plans for the WWE franchise during fiscal 2005 (ending March 31st 2005), spanning PS2, Cube, Xbox and indeed Game Boy Advance.

Ion Storm has finished work on the PC version of Thief: Deadly Shadows, publisher Eidos announced this week, and American gamers should be able to get their hands on it from May 25th onwards. European gamers will have to wait a little longer, probably around a month, but the expectation is that we'll see it before the end of June. An Xbox version of the game is due in late 2004.