Blizzard's BlizzCon 2026 Digital Bundles are live on the Battle.net Shop nearly two months before the September 12-13 show in Anaheim, letting players buy items from World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo IV, Diablo Immortal and Hearthstone without attending. The Overwatch bundle gives Mei a Warcraft-themed Lich Queen skin, while the five standalone bundles cost more together than the discounted Ultimate Collection, free with a BlizzCon Pass.

Rapidus and Cadence are joining forces on agentic AI for chip design, combining Cadence's InnoStack AI Super Agent with Rapidus' Raads platform. The collaboration targets up to a 2x improvement in design turnaround time and adds two new quality assurance tools, Raads Navigator and Raads Indicator, to Rapidus' design lineup.

LG Philippines has launched a raffle promotion tied to its WashTower all-in-one washer-dryer, offering winners roundtrip flights to Seoul and other LG appliance prizes. The promo runs through participating authorized dealers from June 15 to August 31, 2026.

Call of Duty and Aston Martin have unveiled the Dreadnought, a bespoke armoured SUV built for Modern Warfare 4 that arrives in-game on 23 October. In related news, Call of Duty movie director Peter Berg confirmed the film will be set in the Modern Warfare universe, with a theatrical release set for 30 June 2028.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 has revealed Kill Block, a new multiplayer mode set inside a live-fire facility that physically rearranges itself between matches using three motorized steel Slabs. Fanatics Fest attendees get first hands-on access this week, while everyone else can watch the new teaser trailer. Kill Block arrives at launch on 23 October EDT with expanded Gunfight modes, including a new 10v10 variant, with more core Multiplayer modes planned for later.

NVIDIA and SEGA celebrated 30 years of collaboration with an announcement in Tokyo confirming Virtua Fighter Crossroads as the first SEGA title on NVIDIA's RTX Spark platform, building on a partnership dating back to 1996's original Virtua Fighter on PC.

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.

The Zoom MS-60B+ crams amp sims, 90+ bass effects and five footswitches into a Boss-sized pedal. We test whether this tiny multi-effects unit can replace a full bass pedalboard.