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Sepehr Sabbagh-pour

Editor, PlayGearHQ

Sepehr Sabbagh-pour

Editor of PlayGearHQ. A software engineer who has been gaming since childhood, from the Commodore 64 to the Xbox Series X, and who still plays every day.

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I was born in Iran and started gaming at around four or five, on whatever older consoles we could get hold of. My first machine was a Commodore 64. Since then I have spent time on an Atari, the Sega Mega Drive, the Super Nintendo, the GameCube, the PS1, PS2 and PS3, the Game Boy, Game Boy Colour and Game Boy Advance, and the Xbox One, One X and Series X.

I still play for an hour or two almost every day. I am also a software engineer, so when a maker publishes a spec sheet I read it the way an engineer does: what the chip can realistically run, where the battery and screen trade-offs sit, and what the firmware and software side means for the games you actually want to play.

PlayGearHQ is a research site. I compare handheld specifications and UK pricing from maker documentation and I do not claim to have tested devices I have not used. My own gaming history is background, not a substitute for testing.

See how we research and the editorial policy.

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