3G ain't just for mobiles

Anyone frustrated by the capricious availability of landline broadband - maybe your neighbour can get it but, inexplicably, you can't - will be interested to learn of another option, from an unlikely source.

Vodafone has decided that seeing as most people can't be bothered with this 3G stuff on their mobiles - the ingrates! - why not sell it to us at home? Surprisingly, it makes sense. Voda offers a small USB modem which connects any Mac or PC to its 3G network (currently about 70pc population coverage) and gives you sub-broadband speeds (anywhere between 400Kbps and 1Mbps, in my experience). But if you can't get broadband any other way, it's easy to overlook its compromises.

If you sign up before February 28 the service costs €40 a month for the foreseeable future. But wait until March and it goes up to €50 a month. Read the full Vodafone 3G broadband review in today's paper.

In games, Splinter Cell: Double Agent comes to the Wii with a few tricks of its own but the stealth-em-up/shooter is less at home here than on 360. Heavy Weapon: Atomic Tank (X360) brings us back to a simpler time, 1982 to be specific. Available only through Xbox Live Arcade, it's a clone of coin-op classic Moon Patrol but with 2007 bling.

Buzz Junior: Jungle Party (PS2) uses the buzzers from the quiz game to capably entertain the nippers with simple mini-games. Finally, Brothers in Arms: D-Day shoehorns the PC tactical squad shooter into the PSP, with predictably unsatisfactory results.