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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.
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.
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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.
AMD is making the case that CPU power, not just GPU or NPU, decides how fast AI coding agents actually get work done. In its own test, an ASUS ProArt system with a Ryzen AI Max+ processor delivered up to 6 times the CPU throughput of a four-year-old laptop while running six concurrent AI agents through a tool-heavy coding workflow.
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.
Gainward has launched the GeForce RTX 3060 Python II OC, a factory-overclocked 12GB GDDR6 card with dual-fan Zero-RPM cooling, one day after sibling brand Palit released its own RTX 3060 relaunch under the same parent company.