Rockall Times in X-Box must-have interactive sensation

The world of gaming is tonight set to be shaken to the very pizza box on which its controls rest by the announcement that The Rockall Times will this week launch two sensational cross-platform multi-player electronic extravaganzas.

Up to four players can enjoy Virtual 9/11, in which New Yorkers must run down 132 floors of the World Trade Center within 30 minutes while battling ascending members of NYFC, all the while mindful that their gaming chums have either a box cutter to the throat of a 767 captain or are speaking tearfully into a mobile before battling their way into the cockpit shouting "Let's roll guys!" White knuckle stuff indeed.

Or, for a less physical challenge, why not wave your joystick at Washington Sniper? Five nail-biting levels test the gamer's skill to the limit, as he attempts to:

• Train with the US military and then convert to Islam
• Acquire a homosexual teenage acolyte for later deployment as a get-away driver
• Scour the second-hand car lots of Washington in search of a suitable killing machine
• Struggle to create sufficient space in the trunk to fire a high-velocity rifle while drinking decaf double milky latte to go
• Shoot people through the head and successfully avoid the combined resources of the US legal machine
• Laugh and joke all the way to the electric chair

Both Virtual 9/11 and Washington Sniper are available now for PC, X-Box and PS2 at just $99.99. And, for the anniversary of 9/11 only, both are available with collector's limited-edition pull-out poster of Bruce Willis in his secure Nevada bunker biting the head off an Iraqi chicken.