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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…

DC and Marvel Comics have been competitors for over 85 years and together they have shaped the entire superhero industry. Although they share plenty of similarities, overall, the tones, characters, and storylines of these two universes are very different. The debate over which of these two companies is superior has divided millions of comic book…

For the first time, the monthly Steam Hardware Survey shows a majority of gamers are playing on systems with at least 10GB of VRAM.

Looking at the raw stats makes one thing clear — the Xbox Series X is more powerful than the PlayStation 5. Both use an AMD RDNA 2 GPU, but the Xbox Series X has a larger GPU with 52 compute units, while the PS5’s smaller GPU has 32 compute units. Because of this, the Series…

It has no effect on how a Counter-Strike 2 match plays out. Yet for millions of players, skins have become one of the clearest ways to show personality inside the game.

With 23 seasons and counting, “NCIS” is one of the longest-running police procedurals on television, and one of the most popular. Centered on a team of special agents working for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the show is a classic network TV drama, remaining defiantly old-fashioned at a time when cable and streamers are pushing television…