The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2

The RAMpocalypse has developed a whole new style of scam: one unlucky gamer opened a sealed box of new DDR5 memory from Amazon only to find two sticks of DDR2

Seems like everywhere you look there’s a fresh scam on the hardware marketplace, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult for even the most vigilant PC Gamer to avoid. Case in point, one unlucky shopper thought they were getting DDR5 RAM at a decent price, only to have sticks of DDR2 memory with shoddy printed labels mimicking…

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U.S. ISP Beats Others to 10Gbps Internet Punch

Minneapolis is now home to ‘fastest service the world has ever seen’ A couple of month back, South Korean ISP (internet service provider) SK Broadband gave those attending the 2014 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Busan a glimpse of its upcoming 10Gbps (gigabits per second) internet service while the rest of the world, including the U.S.,…

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ReStory Is A “Wholesome” New Game All About Fixing Busted Atari Consoles & Other Retro Tech

File this under “oddly satisfying”. At last night’s Wholesome Snack: The Game Awards Edition 2025 showcase, the publisher TinyBuild and developer Mandragora announced a new narrative-based simulation game, called ReStory, that will let players run their very own electronics repair shop in Japan to dismantle, clean, and fix a bunch of nostalgic devices. This includes…

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You might think reimagining Washington DC as a nuclear hellscape for Fallout 3 would have been grim, but it made the lead designer want to set the next game in his hometown: ‘It’s just kind of fun to blow things up’

Far from the deserts of the Mojave and SoCal, Fallout 3 takes place in the shadow of a striking image: the United States Capitol building, partially blown to chunks in an abandoned, irradiated mire. The team working on the game at Bethesda was based in Rockville, a short jaunt from Washington, so they got a…

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