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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.
John Romero, the id Software co-founder behind Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D, headlines the business conference at gamescom asia x Thailand Game Show 2026 this October in Bangkok. His keynote, titled "Why We Still Make Games," reflects on more than three decades in the industry. The show also marks its biggest expansion yet, growing to four halls after drawing more than 206,000 attendees in its 2025 debut.
LG Philippines introduced two new flagship TVs at once, the OLED evo G6 AI and the Micro RGB evo AI, framing them as different answers to the same question rather than a hierarchy. The OLED model chases pixel-level accuracy through self-lit panels, while the Micro RGB model bets on scale with screens up to 100 inches, leaving buyers to decide whether they want precision or room-filling presence.
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.
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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.
Gears of War: E-Day launches October 6 with day-one DLSS 4.5 support on GeForce RTX systems. Built on Unreal Engine 5, the origin-story prequel adds ray-traced lighting, real-time destruction, and larger set pieces, plus an Open Beta starting August 6 for pre-order customers and PC Game Pass subscribers.
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Two Call of Duty classics just landed on modern PlayStation hardware. Black Ops and Black Ops II are now available on PS4 and PS5 as ports of the original games, bringing their Cold War campaigns, Zombies modes and competitive multiplayer back to current consoles.
Ubisoft Philippines, marking its 10th anniversary, took full ownership of key locations and activities in Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced. The studio built Kingston, Port Royale, Long Bay, the Forts activity, and Harpooning — its biggest contribution to the franchise yet.
Gainward's five GPU product families, Phantom, Phoenix, Ghost, Python and Pegasus, cover NVIDIA RTX 30 through RTX 50 series cards. The 40-year-old brand's Golden Sample heritage and consistent thermal engineering separate it from sibling brand Palit, which sells the same underlying silicon.
GIGABYTE has launched the AORUS GeForce RTX 5080 INFINITY 16G and INFINITY WOOD 16G. The two cards bring an aerospace turbine design with optional wood-grain styling, WINDFORCE Hyperburst cooling with a concealed third fan and Project Stealth cable routing to the RTX 5080 platform.
The FIFA World Cup is the perfect excuse to dive into Crunchyroll's sports anime catalogue. From Blue Lock's brutal striker competition to Haikyu's volleyball rivalries, Kuroko's Basketball, Eyeshield 21 and MF GHOST, these seven series keep the competitive energy going between matches.
NVIDIA's new Game Ready Driver arrives alongside two major RTX-supported launches. DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations ships with DLSS Multi Frame Generation in up to 6X mode and full path tracing, while AC Black Flag Resynced brings ray tracing and DLSS 4.5 support. Gray Zone Warfare also upgrades to DLSS 4.5 this week.