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World of Warcraft executive producer Holly Longdale and associate production director Clay Stone will open PAX Aus 2026 with a keynote revealing a new World of Warcraft: Forever dungeon. The event streams live on Twitch October 9, with hands-on beta access running at the show through the weekend.

Team RICOCHET is targeting Cronus cheating hardware with a new wave of hardware bans ahead of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's October 23 launch. Activision has not published any figures alongside the update, a notable absence given how often the company touts its anti-cheat numbers.

GIGABYTE's newest anime-themed graphics card, the AORUS GeForce RTX 5060 ARI 8G, arrives in the Philippines this October for an estimated PHP 34,940. The RTX 5060 hardware underneath is unchanged, but every box ships with a randomized ARI figure, turning the unboxing into a small gamble for the brand's anime-leaning fans.

Mission: Yozakura Family's official site revealed the voice cast for its five Gold-Rank Spies with a new character PV, ahead of the second cour's October 11 premiere on MBS and TBS.

SEKIRO: NO DEFEAT, the TV anime adaptation of FromSoftware's Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, premieres January 2027 across 8 episodes, with producer ARCH apologizing for not announcing the TV series alongside its earlier theatrical release.

GIGABYTE's Radeon RX 9050 GAMING OC 8G has landed in the Philippines at PHP 20,700, a price that works out to roughly double what AMD set as the RX 9050's US launch MSRP. The card pairs an entry-level RDNA chip with GIGABYTE's WINDFORCE cooling and a mech-warrior design built for quiet 1080p and 1440p gaming.

Sekiro: No Defeat will stream weekly as an eight-episode series on Crunchyroll starting January 2027, expanding on the theatrical cut with additional content. The KADOKAWA, Qzil.la and ARCH adaptation keeps its film cast and crew, following FromSoftware's more than 10-million-selling Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

One week after World of Warcraft: Forever's beta opened, Blizzard's first Forever Podcast episode reveals the team is already tuning class balance and leveling pace based on player feedback, with a level cap increase to 30 and the Darkspear Islands battleground coming next.

Kingston's World Tourism Day storage roundup leads with the FURY Renegade G5 and KC3000, two internal desktop SSDs that have nothing to do with travel, alongside genuinely portable drives like the XS2000.

ASUS's ProArt Creator Connect event revealed Philippine pricing for its ProArt RTX 50-series GPUs, an 8K HDR monitor at ₱550,000, and new Z890/X870E creator motherboards, all tucked inside a photography and filmmaking masterclass.

Perplexity has expanded its local AI agent, Portable Computer, to AMD's Ryzen AI Max and Ryzen AI Halo platforms, offering an alternative to the 24GB NVIDIA RTX card its original version demanded. The AMD version runs local models like Qwen 3.8 27B on device, bundled with agent orchestration and enterprise security controls for Perplexity Pro and Max subscribers.

The DICT and CICC lifted the Discord block after the platform agreed to a "green lane" with authorities. Former DICT undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy has since sent demand letters to the DICT, CICC and NTC and is weighing a Supreme Court petition.