Valve may have missed the point of episodic gaming, but this is one of the best value gaming packs ever released

A hybrid spawn of Alien and Michael Bay’s Transformers – this 4TB, Quad Core predator from Acer shows no gaming fear.

A big brash, powerful pc with loads of features and a giant screen. It’s a good thing, because the orange case distracts from the DDR5’s true purpose: performance.

We were unconvinced by the orange and brown livery of Seagate’s towering desktop drive, but for the miniature version the company has toned things down. It’s still brown, but the orange glow is restricted to the front of the unit and its simple low-profile shape is far easier to like.

The past two years have been littered with attempts at combining a phone with a PDA. The first was O2 with its XDA (January 2003, page 41) - an excellent first try, and one that will be revised this month.

It turns out a $9.95 disposable camera is not the best way to shoot homemade surfing pics. If you're after a camera you can literally dunk underwater, try Canon's PowerShot D10.

Designed to sit between the low-end Inspiron and high-end XPS families, it comes in 15in and 17in flavours and its target audience could be pretty much anyone: few laptops are as customisable as this.

Touch Diamond first to use Windows 6.1, and will feature 3D weather reports with raindrops and lightning onscreen. Oh, and a little feature called 3G.

Simon Edwards shows you how to get up and running with SmoothWall.

The first wave of high-profile avatars has come in the shape of Ananova and Vandrea, two virtual newscasters that might look similar on the surface, but behind the scenes are very different creatures

The DAV310 from A-MAX Technology circumvents this limitation by being able to play MP3 tracks straight off a CD - just like your PC can.

What can a vendor-controlled comparison of notebook technology teach us? Plenty – but not in the way it was intended. Read on as we expose HP’s notebook ‘Reliability Challenge’.

Several manufacturers this month have sought to distinguish their products through design. None, however, has gone so far as Seagate to challenge our expectations of an external hard disk.

Handsets based on Windows Mobile 6.5 will be widely available from October, according to Microsoft, as the company kicks off a new push to promote its smartphone platform.

Student faces 69 felony counts for altering transcripts.

Decent features and speed, but still lacking in this company.

Video playback, traffic info and coursework are the order of the day.

Seagate's Freeagent series of external drives look stunning and perform admirably.

Brief reviews of new products, plus updates on items we've already featured.