The Super Bowl is coming up in just over a week’s time, kicking off at 6:30PM ET on Sunday, February 3rd. Now is perhaps the best time of the year to save on new TV or soundbar purchase, and we’ve been rounding up all of the deals worth checking out. Regardless of your interest in American football, the annual sporting event makes tech cheaper for everyone.

TVs and soundbars are some of this week’s best deals, but there’s also a whole lot of other stuff that’s on sale, covering a broad range of categories from charging accessories, video games, smart displays, and more.

Video games

• The remake of 1998’s Resident Evil 2 has landed, and thankfully, Capcom’s stunning remaster delivers. For readers of The Verge, it costs less than usual on…

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Over the last six years, author Marko Kloos has forged an impressive career for himself with Frontlines, his popular, long-running military science fiction series. This year, he’s shifting gears, setting aside Frontlines to start a brand new series called The Palladium Wars, a space opera set in the aftermath of a devastating war.

Kloos’s series began its life as a submission to the Viable Paradise SF/F Writer’s Workshop — an annual boot camp on Martha’s Vineyard that pairs aspiring writers with seasoned professionals. He wove in his own experiences as a non-commissioned officer in the German military into the story, which followed a recruit named Andrew Greyson, who joins the military to escape from the slums of an overcrowded North…

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Plus, Saturn’s awesome—and useful!—rings.

Earlier this week, Apple began selling refurbished versions of the iPhone SE, its nearly three-year-old, 4-inch smartphone modeled after the iPhone 5S, at a $100 discount. It was the second round of recent sales after an initial batch sold out the previous weekend. And like any budget-adverse tech journalist with an impulse buying compulsion, I felt this was the appropriate moment to hop on the backup phone bandwagon. So I bought one.

I’ve always appreciated the classic 5S design, with its overtly rounded corners and its sturdy, not-so-delicate dimensions. It never felt like it really required a case, and its smaller screen and more comfortable, one-handed use is something I’ve thought far too much about as I’ve ferried around an iPhone…

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Google’s elite security team, police scanner encryption, and more of the week’s top security news.

The Amazon founder spent his summers reading Asimov and has named pets and companies after ‘Star Trek’ characters.

This year’s Crystal Cabin nominees offer new ways to make the most of precious space.

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