Capture that high

Entertainment companies have been feeding us high-definition media for quite a while but it's now becoming affordable to create your own HD footage where before you used to settle for crappy, blurry video.

At the second attempt, Canon has got HD right in its new HV20 camcorder (the HV10 wasn't bad but its unergonomic form and other niggles did for it). The video captured by the HV20 could easily be mistaken for studio broadcast quality (or even better).

Read the full Canon HV20 review in today's paper.

In games, Buzz The Mega Quiz reverses the fun trivia game out of the cul-de-sac down which it had headed. Freshening up the questions and polishing the presentation have made BTMQ a hilarious party game. Just add booze.

Earth Defence Force 2017 (X360) indulges in every cheesy shooter cliche known to man but somehow its giant bug hunt ends up frighteningly addictive, especially at a budget price. Def Jam Icon (PS3/X360) looks and sounds the business but its urban brawler schtick gets undermined by sluggish combat controls.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance (PS3) revisits the Gauntlet team-brawler genre, with all the inherent confusion and button-mashing that entails. Finally, ropey arcade flight sim Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII hasn't got any better in its port to Wii and PS3.