The DICT and CICC lifted the Discord block after the platform agreed to a "green lane" with authorities. Former DICT undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy has since sent demand letters to the DICT, CICC and NTC and is weighing a Supreme Court petition.

Microsoft's new Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch bring Snapdragon X2 Plus, brighter screens and a haptic Surface Mouse, but the Surface Pro's "86% recycled" enclosure claim contradicts its own footnote, which puts the real figure at 3.7%.

hololive's first TV anime, officially titled Odekake hololive, is an omnibus travel series following 29 hololive talents rather than a small cast with a central plot, directed by Toshisuke Machiya at Studio KAI.

Eight days after ARES: The Iron Vanguard's global launch, Com2uS shipped the Giganto Machia raid boss and a new Operator Cell progression system, an unusually fast endgame content drop for a game that launched single-player-first.

Com2uS has opened a Steam store page for ZENONIA 2: The Lost Memories, a 17-year-old mobile action RPG, but the listing is wishlist-only with no release date attached yet.

Fall 2026 packs nine major anime premieres and returns into a four-week window, from Black Clover's five-year comeback to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, and Bleach's delayed finale now has to compete with all of it.

The ROG Strix G18 (2026) pairs an Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus with an RTX 5070 Ti, dual Thunderbolt 5 and an 18-inch 300Hz Nebula panel for PHP 244,995. We benchmarked six games in CapFrameX and logged every sensor to find out where the Philippine SKU's 16GB of RAM actually costs you.

The ROG G700 Gaming Desktop pairs an Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF with an RTX 5070 Ti, Gen 5 NVMe storage, and DDR5-6000 memory. We benchmarked seven titles with CapFrameX and measured thermals and power draw to find out if this flagship prebuilt is worth the price.

The ROG Strix B850-F Gaming WiFi7 NEO brings PCIe 5.0, WiFi 7 and strong power delivery to a B-series board. We tested it with a Ryzen 7 9850X3D and RTX 5080 to see if it delivers X870-class behavior without the price.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D pairs Zen 5 with 3D V-Cache for gaming. We benchmarked seven titles, frame times and synthetics on an RTX 5080 rig to see if the smoothness justifies the premium.

The Asus ROG Strix SCAR 18 (G835L) packs an RTX 5090 laptop GPU, Core Ultra 9 and a 240Hz mini-LED. We benchmark gaming, thermals and fan noise on this desktop-class machine.

Doom: The Dark Ages drops the Slayer into a medieval hellscape with shield parries, mechs and dragons. We review what lands, what stumbles, and whether id Software's experiment works.