There's no denying the power of the PlayStation 2 gaming console. Once again it's going to be one of the must-have Christmas items for the home this year.

Video support isn’t the best, but the PS3 remains a superb piece of kit

Cheaper, rather than cheap, but there’s still no compelling reason to buy yet.

The faithful old PS2 isn’t knocking on the door of the retirement home just yet and the new look has knocked years off, but it’s the consistently brilliant games that are really keeping the biggest selling console ever from slipping six feet under.

No sane gamer is going to head out and buy this as their new console, but we'd advise 360 and Wii owners not to forget about Dre - there's some truly superb games still coming out for PS

This is a pretty decent little webcam – it's just that, without games to fool around with, it feels like a low-end PC webcam plugged into your Xbox. EyeToy this ain't

Awesome skating realism with motion capture playback

Not quite the games wizard.

A bargain route to getting HD DVD playback for your PC or Xbox, but there are limitations.

The Sony bandwagon rolls on; this is another simple to use set that produces brilliant big-screen images

Few games have been as unanimously wellreceived, and so uniformly controversial, than the Grand Theft Auto series.

A Blu-ray drive is just about the only justification for the Sony’s high price; it’s poor value overall.

A Blu-ray drive is just about the only justification for the Sony’s high price; it’s poor value overall.

Great in day-to-day use, but poor software and high price dent its appeal.

Format war? What format war?

Not as stylish as the Dell, but the BenQ’s image quality and HDMI port make it our top 24in LCD.

It wouldn’t be right for a new superhero movie to go by without an accompanying videogame, and Fantastic Four is no exception.

How many acronyms can a monitor have before it chokes on its own resolution? We have all come to expect CRTs, LCDs, TFTs and God knows what else but now Samsung has come up with a monitor with so many acronyms it will leave you gasping.

The first Blu-ray drive to actually BE available in Australia. The massive price should fall quickly.

The Qosmio is the absolute pinnacle in multimedia notebooks. It brings everything you need for a good Windows XP Media Center Edition (MCE) system and squeezes it into a notebook form-factor. Albeit a large notebook form-factor. Yes the Qosmio is a huge and heavy notebook, but it's not nearly as heavy as it would have been if it was packed with desktop internals as many desknotes of this size usually are.