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.

GIGABYTE's AORUS MASTER 16 GEN 2 launches in the Philippines July 30, led by an RTX 5090 configuration priced at PHP 299,995. The marketing centers less on gaming specs and more on GiMATE, an onboard AI agent that codes and generates images.

At its Advancing AI 2026 keynote, AMD launched Helios, its new rack-scale AI platform, alongside MI400 GPUs and sixth-gen EPYC CPUs. The more telling detail: Anthropic is committing up to 2 gigawatts of AMD chips, and in return AMD's engineers get access to Claude to help build ROCm, the software stack AMD needs to compete with Nvidia. OpenAI, Meta and Cerebras also confirmed Helios deployments.

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 and Warzone Season 05 arrives 24 July AEST with new maps across multiplayer and Zombies, a new Verdansk point of interest called Drone Labs, four new weapons and a Battle Pass led by Operator Spectre. It's also the last season before Endgame moves behind paid access.

Lenovo and FIFA say all 48 national teams that competed at the 2026 World Cup used FIFA AI Pro, an AI analytics platform built on Lenovo's AI Factory and xIQ platform, to prepare for the tournament. The claim is notable less for the technology than for its reach, universal adoption across football's wealthiest federations and its most under-resourced ones alike, though the release stops short of saying whether that access translated into any competitive edge on the pitch.

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.