Digital photo finish

Visions of the future home always include banks of TVs, some informative, some just decorative. While it's hard to imagine shelling out for a telly just to display family photos, a more realistic option can be found in the burgeoning range of digital pictures frames hitting the market. One of the better options, though exceedingly pricey relatively speaking, comes from Philips.

A crisp 9" display hides behind the imaginative name of PhotoFrame 9FF2M4/00 (c'mon, Philips, try a bit harder). Plenty of features and a bright, high-res screen go some way to justifying the steep price, but wireless functionality would be welcome in this class.

Read the full Philips PhotoFrame review in today's paper.

In games, God of War II lights up the ageing PS2 in a way nothing has done so far on the PS3. A sequel to the epic hack'n'slash of 2005, GoWII may not be terribly innovative but what it does, it does brilliantly.

Ridge Racer 7 (PS3) sticks to the surrealist racing line that has served it so well in the past, with little change from the X360 version but enough to keep fans in thrall. Medal of Honor Vanguard (Wii) retreads very old WWII ground with very little new to say, even with the Wiimote motion control.

Fight Night Round 3 hits PS3 with a new first-person mode to emphasis the bone-crunching punches but rumble would have been better. Still a very nifty boxing sim, though. Finally, Tony Hawk Project 8 limps on to the PS3 missing some features of other versions and technically unpolished.