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LG's new 19kg AI Top Load Washer, the TX2519ST5J, automatically adjusts its wash motion based on fabric type and soil level without needing the ThinQ app, alongside ezDispense automatic detergent dosing and Steam Allergy Care. Philippine pricing and availability haven't been announced yet.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is heading to Nintendo Switch 2, its first appearance on a Nintendo console since 2011. Pre-orders are live and the Open Beta runs August 29 through September 2 with cross-play, Joy-Con 2 mouse support and the new Zodiac Warzone map.

Overwatch Rush, Blizzard's top-down spinoff, soft launches August 31 starting in Indonesia, then Malaysia and the Philippines. The build adds a new Hero Level progression system, a reworked Brigitte and Lúcio, three new maps, and two new modes ahead of a wider global release.

AMD's new Adrenalin 26.8.1 driver adds day-one FSR 4 support for Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy, claiming up to 3x FPS gains on RX 9000 cards, plus support for STAR WARS Zero Company, the Modern Warfare 4 Open Beta, and the Radeon RX 9050.

NVIDIA's Gamescom 2026 announcements ranged from DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction reaching general availability to RTX Spark picking up EA, Embark and Ubisoft as partners. The standout is RTX Mega Geometry, six years in development, which finally lets Unreal Engine 5's Nanite detail show up correctly in ray tracing, debuting in Gears of War: E-Day.

ASUS ROG used Gamescom 2026 to launch three esports OLED monitors, new mice and keyboards, WiFi 8 routers, and an Onimusha-themed RX 9070 XT, while also signing GamerLegion as a sponsorship partner and streamer iiTzTimmy, putting nearly equal weight on hardware and relationships.

Hearthstone's Escape from Violet Hold expansion adds four new Class Sets, Azeroth's Most Wanted, telling the origin stories of the villains who broke out in July. Priest, Rogue, Warlock and Warrior each get 13 new cards built around a specific inmate's backstory.

Blizzard and CD PROJEKT RED are bringing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Remastered to Battle.net on September 29, with a new expansion, Songs of the Past, following in 2027. It's the first time a major outside AAA franchise has joined Battle.net at this scale, with a Diablo IV crossover skin included.

Lenovo's new LOQ Essential laptops split into two very different graphics strategies, one skipping a discrete GPU entirely and the other leaning on a card from 2022, while the new Legion 27Q-20 and 27U-20 monitors won't ship until January.

Crunchyroll and Toei Animation are moving the ONE PIECE English dub to a weekly release schedule starting with the Elbaph Arc on October 20, a break from the multi-episode batch drops fans are used to.

ASUS is marking ROG's 20th anniversary in the Philippines with pre-order bundles spanning its entire catalog, from a ₱1,890 keycap box to a ₱430,590 RTX 5090 GPU, running August 25 to September 14.

Knuckle Jet, Rain Games' sequel to Teslagrad, now launches September 15 on Steam after the studio pushed back its original September 1 date out of respect for Norway's period of mourning.