BlizzCon 2026's confirmed guest list puts LE SSERAFIM and YOASOBI in the headliner slots, alongside T-Pain, Simu Liu, and deadmau5, making the celebrity lineup as much of a draw as the games.

Mortal Shell II, The Sinking City 2, and the indie ARPG Luminary all launched with the full DLSS 4.5 stack this week, a sign the feature set has become standard kit across budgets, not just flagship releases.

LG is building a "Data Factory" in Seoul with NVIDIA to generate robot training data from its own manufacturing and logistics operations, positioning itself as an AI data supplier ahead of any home robot launch.

AMD says it has reached a 4x AI energy efficiency gain since 2024, ahead of its own roadmap pace toward a 20x improvement by 2030, though the figure rests on modeled estimates rather than independent benchmarks.

For World Photography Day, Kingston isn't launching new hardware. It's regrouping its full SSD and portable drive lineup, from the 14,800MB/s FURY Renegade G5 in its new 8TB size to the IP55-rated XS2000, around how demanding your actual shoot is rather than which spec sheet looks fastest.

ASUS made its ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM and PG32UCWM official, with Dual Mode 4K@240Hz/FHD@480Hz switching and a first for gaming monitors: AI agents can now adjust display settings through natural-language commands.

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.