Lenovo is wrapping its run as FIFA's Official Technology Partner for the 2026 World Cup with a claim of 99.99% uptime across 16 host cities and 104 matches. The bigger story is Referee View, an AI broadcast tool that put officiating data in front of fans instead of just referees.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 pre-orders now come with a week of early campaign access starting October 16, and Activision is previewing that early access with a first look at the Losing Ground mission, a ground-level battle through a burning city street.

GIGABYTE's AORUS ELITE Series AIO liquid coolers pack a full-color LCD screen, dual-zone RGB and a simplified 3-cable install, but the real story is how central the display has become to how PC coolers get sold now.

AMD's new $279 Radeon RX 9050 brings RDNA 4 ray tracing, FSR upscaling and AV1 encoding to the budget GPU tier, a segment usually stuck with older silicon. The 92W card ships alongside a new Adrenalin driver with early access to Gears of War: E-Day's multiplayer beta.

Halo: Campaign Evolved launched this week with full DLSS support out of the gate, headlining one of NVIDIA's busiest weeks of 2026 for game updates. Mistfall Hunter, Corsair Cove, Killing Floor 3 and Palworld all picked up DLSS 4.5 upgrades alongside a new GeForce Game Ready Driver and early access to the Gears of War: E-Day beta.

Lenovo's new Esports World Cup 2026 sponsorship comes with Legion Tower desktops and monitors across the tournament, but the real reveal is the Legion Pro Rollable Concept, an expandable OLED gaming laptop getting a hands-on demo on the EWC stage.

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.