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Written and illustrated by Kohei Horikoshi, My Hero Academia is one of the most successful Shonen anime and manga series of all time. While the manga reached its conclusion on August 5th, 2024, after 10 years of serialization, the anime followed suit shortly afterward in December 2025. The main story reached a bittersweet conclusion with a brief…

A few years ago, choosing between a pre-built or DIY PC could be a tricky decision. In many cases, building your own was cheaper, and you could often get more performance or better upgrade paths than you’d find from a system sold by a larger brand. However, given the current RAM crisis, tariffs, and graphics card…

While the Marvel Cinematic Universe now dominates the live-action superhero genre, some of you may remember that Netflix also tried to do the same with its own Daredevil series and larger Defenders universe. Of course, the comic book hero was undoubtedly popular before that (no thanks to the Ben Affleck movie), but the TV show…

Creative industries are a source of economic growth, contributing to the U.S. dominance of digital platforms and its service export surplus. At the same time, they are also part of broader digital ecosystems and long-term international influence, as competition over global audiences and information space intensifies. As Japan moves to strengthen creative industries as a…

When DC comics first introduced the character of John Stewart, back in the early 1970s, he was one of the first African-American superheroes to enter a pantheon dominated by white men. The character was a landmark: a Black Power advocate, a college graduate, and one of the few superheroes who didn’t wear a mask. Now,…

If you did a lot of gaming during the ’90s, you either played on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) or the Sega Genesis (Sega Mega Drive in Europe) — at least until the legendary Sony PlayStation was born. However, deciding between the SNES and the Genesis was no easy task since nobody could parse…

Hi! I’m Rick Lane, and you might remember me from such columns as Reality Bytes, RPS’ erstwhile monthly goggle at the world of virtual reality. I’ve spent the last couple of years trapped between the second and third dimensions, my flattened body doomed to forever spin to face the camera. But RPS has whipped out…

You have to be instantly recognisable in order to be classified as iconic, and this PlayStation 3 era gem most definitely falls into that category.

‘What appeared shockingly new back then, though, looks miraculous today’ … Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are Miami detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs in Michael Mann’s 2006 film. Photograph: Moviestore Collection Ltd/Alamy‘What appeared shockingly new back then, though, looks miraculous today’ … Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx are Miami detectives Sonny Crockett and Ricardo…

The Xbox Series X is an impressive gaming console, but its custom chip is no longer the high-end offering it once was. The console features a custom RDNA 2 GPU with 52 compute units running at a locked 1.825GHz, producing 12.155 teraflops of GPU compute power, paired with eight Zen 2 CPU cores at up to…