My, what a big zoom you've got

Paparazzi often get their shots with enormous lenses costing tens of thousands of euro but the new Olympus SP-550UZ puts consumer cameras in the same league - well, nearly. Its headline feature is a whopping 18x zoom (equivalent to 500mm lens, fact fans), all in a slim body bursting with features. Naturally, some compromises sour the pot a little but read the full Olympus SP-550UZ review in today's paper.

In games, you can live out the rock'n'roll dream with Guitar Hero II (x360), a spectacular effort employing an imitation geetar, some headbanging tunes and a sense of rhythm. Genji (PS3) comes off as more of technology demo than a fully realised hack'n'slash, with the camera a particular problem. Hotel Dusk: Room 215 fits among that special breed of DS adventure that requires more reading and thinking than action, and its intruiging murder-mystery is all the better for it.

The Godfather comes to Wii and PS3 with some tacked-on extra missions and motion-control afterthoughts but the original flaws in this GTA-lite still shine through. Need For Speed Carbon similarly fails to exploit the next-gen potential of the PS3, offering nothing more than what we didn't really want on other consoles.