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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's Beta opens August 22 with a new anti-cheat hardware gate, TPM 2.0 and Secure Boot are now required on PC, but it also marks the first time a single-player Campaign mission has ever been playable inside a Beta.

Gears of War: E-Day's open beta, No More Room in Hell 2's Early Access exit, Hell Let Loose: Vietnam's launch and Phantom Blade Zero's October 29 date all shipped with DLSS 4.5 the same week, treating it as a baseline rather than a bonus.

Season 05 Reloaded closes the Black Ops 7 Zombies storyline with the Rex Infernus finale map, turns Nuketown into a playable pinball machine for the new Turbo Tilt map, and quietly ends free access to Endgame after this season.

Modern Warfare 4's new "Traffic" vignette reveals Captain Price and Valeria working together in Paris ahead of the game's October 23 launch, an alliance beat Infinity Ward usually saves for later in a campaign.

Overwatch 2's Season 4 adds Tank hero D.Mon and a war-scarred Busan, but the change worth noticing is the reworked Battle Pass, which finally lets players choose their Legendary skin instead of grinding a fixed track.

World of Warcraft: Midnight's Curse of Ula'tek update opens the Coiled Isle zone and its dungeons now, but holds the eight-boss Venomous Abyss raid and the rest of Season 2 back a full week until August 18.

Hearthstone's Battlegrounds Season 14 borrows the Dark Gifts mechanic from the core card game and rebuilds it around Battlegrounds' gold economy, while a new Activate keyword and fresh heroes round out the Dark Gifts of Dalaran update.

Team Spirit's 4-3 win over Yangon Galacticos in Paris made Eastern Europe and Central Asia the first region outside Southeast Asia to win a Mobile Legends: Bang Bang major, in a tournament that also became MLBB's most-watched Esports World Cup event yet.

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.

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.

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.