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GameSpot reports that EA's hotly anticipated Aliens: Colonial Marines, which looked so promising in the screenshots released earlier this year, need be anticipated no longer, as it has been put on indefinite hold with little chance of the development resuming. The American website attributes the news to a source within publisher Electronic Arts, but no reason for the game's cancellation is offered, although the decision is believed to have been taken a couple of months ago.

We've seen this before haven't we? Comic book turns movie turns sequel turns videogame turns hideous cash cow. Blade II was a reasonable recent successor to the not-bad Wesley Snipes action flick, but can the fast action, insane martial arts and satisfying gruesomness be pulled off to proper effect in game form?

Sega isn't the only publisher pushing a beach volleyball simulation this year. I'm sure I don't have to tell you that, but while the others seem content to concentrate on promoting their glorified Barbie dolls, Sega's well-animated digital waxworks are merely a pleasant backdrop to what should be considered an excellent sports title. It's AM2's volleyball mechanics that deserve praise here, not the content of their C-cups.

Last year's TIF instalment was the most celebrated to date, enjoying critical acclaim in light of subsequently limp ISS and FIFA outings, and to this day it remains an outside contender for best arcade footy title on the PS2. This Is Football 2003 is a big step forward for Sony's London studio, ramping up the realism and tweaking the gameplay, but does it have the legs to outpace and challenge relentless attacks from Konami, EA and others?

Davilex Software's Knight Rider: The Game has gone gold for PlayStation 2 and PC, distributor Koch Media has informed us. The game, which we felt was more than worthy of the Knight Rider name when we took a look at it recently, sees the player taking the reigns of car-come-sentient-being KITT in a non-stop fight against crime. Like a cross between a 3D platformer and Midway's Spy Hunter, Knight Rider is a game about driving like a loony, on two-wheels, springboarding over obstacles and generally utilising KITT's peculiar abilities to undo the untouchable: criminals operating above the law and blah blah blah! You should be able to champion the cause of the innocent, the helpless, the powerless from November 8th.

Blizzard Entertainment has patched their RTS opus WarCraft III to version 1.03. Players can find numerous download locations for the Windows patch on Blizzard's website, and it weighs in at 3.85MB, with a slightly smaller 3.25MB version for Macintosh users.

Digital Extremes programmer Steve Sinclair has shed some light on the logistics of multiplayer Unreal Championship using Xbox Live in a post to the official Infogrames forum. While Sinclair can't comment on whether big bandwidth hosted servers are a certainty, as that's Microsoft and Atari's (Infogrames) area, he does shed some light on bandwidth and voice comm-sensitive issues.

The long-awaited follow-up/expansion pack in the Cossacks series, dubbed Back to War, is due out next Friday October 18th, and to celebrate that fact, developer/publisher CDV is planning to give away a crate of Russia's finest vodka, despite our pleas for them to give it to us instead (worth a try). So, you might reasonably wonder, what's so special about Cossacks: Back to War, what's so special about Stolichnaya Cristall Vodka, and why should I care about either?

BioWare has patched extensive single and multiplayer PC RPG Neverwinter Nights to version 1.25, integrating two new breeds of monster and a new NWN Content Installer Creator - a tool which builds a nice installation frontend for your custom-built NWN modules, allowing you to distribute them with greater ease.

Japanese gaming weekly Famitsu recently had the chance to ask Eiji Aonuma, director of The Legend of Zelda on GameCube, a handful of questions about puzzle-solving in Link's forthcoming Cube escapade, and the answers were so intriguing we thought we'd mention them around here.

Without fail, with each passing instalment of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, developer Neversoft ups the bar and peers down watching the various copycats leaping this way and that in a vain attempt to reach it. Unfortunately for them though, the money-printing franchise faces stiffer competition than ever this year in the shape of Acclaim's Aggressive Inline and BMX XXX, and THQ's MX Superfly amongst others.

This week's release list is surprising short for the middle of October, but there are still some gems to be mined, beginning with a platform double-header on the GameBoy Advance. Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 is wonderful - probably the best platformer on the console to date - famed for its variety, originality and depth, and Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance is an ingenious update to a familiar series, and a darn sight brighter than its predecessor, as those of you who played it will doubtless be elated to hear.

Futuristic racing has been a well beaten path ever since Psygnosis blew gamers away with WipeOut way back in 1995, with its gruellingly exciting blend of combat, stupendously fast racing, top class (for their time) visuals and a cutting edge dance soundtrack. It's probably not too wide of the mark to suggest that this was the game that made the PlayStation a cool machine to be associated with, and stands as a landmark achievement.

America's Army is being patched to include a new and much larger map, gameplay tweaks and several new features, like a "Combat Effectiveness Meter" and a new "Honour System".

With Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2002 barely four months old, EA is already prepping the sequel's release across all formats later this year, and Eurogamer was lucky enough to get our hands on a final cut of the PS2 version ahead of its November 22nd release date.

With the weather finally taking a turn for the worst after a delightful CFC-based late summer, Nintendo hopes to brighten up the dark winter months this year with a significant GameBoy Advance line-up including the likes of Yoshi's Island, Metroid Fusion and Tomb Raider.

Capcom is bringing Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, a tongue-in-cheek Tetris-esque puzzle game starring super-deformed characters from Street Fighter and Darkstalkers, to GameBoy Advance. The game will be out in the US in time for Christmas.

Microsoft is perverting the youth of Britain, offering £10,000 to a student who can beat off opposition in Quantum Redshift whilst ignoring his or her studies. The ultimate student gamer will beat off competition in regional heats to be held at universities up and down the land, with a grand final in London this December, where the winner will receive the ultimate Christmas present - a cheque for ten grand.

CDV's massively multiplayer role-playing extravaganza Neocron will go on sale this Friday, October 18th in the UK, after a successful launch earlier this month in Germany. Neocron, as-yet the only first-person MMORPG we're aware of to see release, plants the gamer in the fictional Cyberpunk city in a virtual apartment with the task of earning virtual credits by completing missions and tasks in traditional MMORPG style. Conflict and combat play a vital role, and players will be able to join rival factions to further their characters, collecting vehicles including cars and motorbikes as they grow in wealth.

Only a couple of months after the last Xbox price cut, Microsoft is seemingly planning to make the console into even better value for customers in time for Christmas, by bundling two Sega titles with the console for free.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars for GameCube has gone gold and will ship to stores in the US in time for an October 29th release date, according to developer LucasArts. The Cube version of the game is down for release in Europe on November 22nd, with a PS2 version following on December 6th.

Activision is to bring Marvel Comics' Golden Avenger to GameBoy Advance, in the shape of The Invincible Iron Man, a 2D platform adventure developed by Torus Games - the fellows responsible for the excellent Duke Nukem Advance. The game will see Iron Man taking the battle to archenemies Blizzard, Crimson Dynamo and various other Marvel super-villains. A variety of battle suit weapons will be at Iron Man's disposal, with power-ups, unlockable bonus items and other fan-tastic items strewn around to supplement the action. Given the quality of the developer's recent work elsewhere on the platform, we have high hopes for The Invincible Iron Man.

German developer Sunflowers has told us that they are currently applying the finishing touches to ANNO 1503 - The New World, an empire-building real-time strategy title set 500 years ago, almost to the day.

Sega's AM2 studio is working on a new 18-wheeler truck driving game called The King of Route 66. Set on the road which runs from Illinois to California, players will have to square off against the nefarious Tornado Corporation and win the hearts of the seductive Queens of Route 66. They didn't really think that one through, did they?

Another day, another driving game: that's certainly the way it is in gaming land right now. So come on Sega GT 2002; feeling lucky? Make my day.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2 will launch on October 25th. Developer and publisher Konami has brought the launch of the game forward, bucking the recent trend of non-stop slippage amongst the big winter titles. The PSone version of Pro Evo 2 is due out shortly afterward.

Rebellion's Judge Dredd vs. Judge Death will appear on PlayStation 2, publisher Vivendi has announced. Oxford-based Rebellion will now deliver the game on both PS2 and PC in the second half of 2003.

Eidos is expanding its Premier Collection of £12.99 budget titles to include Startopia, Commandos 2: Men of Courage, Anachronox, Soul Reaver 2 and Project Eden from October 25th. Unlike several other prominent budget labels, Eidos' latest line-up is built up of classic titles. Three of the five titles mentioned above achieved a 9/10 rating here on Eurogamer, with the other two also scoring respectably.

Lost Vikings is to make an appearance on GameBoy Advance to mark the 10-year anniversary of its release. The classic puzzler, one of the first games developed by Blizzard Entertainment almost a decade ago, will appear in all its previous glory, as players guide three Viking characters cooperatively through 35 faithfully restored, mind-bending levels.

Until Grand Theft Auto 3 came along and completely blew every other mission-based driving game out of the water, the Driver games were king of the hill. Ok, the second version with its hideous pop-up issues and unfinished feel tarnished Reflection's reputation somewhat, but it still sold by the bucket load. But that was two years ago - and surely the GBA can't cope with the graphical demands that even the PSX couldn't cope with?