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Blizzard's BlizzCon 2026 "Know Before You Go" guide reveals the schedule and floor map, but the real story for most fans is a free livestream that pays out viewership rewards and a Digital Bundles deadline that has nothing to do with attending in person.

AMD's free-game bundle for Capcom's Onimusha: Way of the Sword only covers Ryzen X3D chips and the Radeon RX 9070 family, meaning it rewards buyers already spending big rather than lowering the price of entry.

Activision published RICOCHET Anti-Cheat crackdown numbers, 375+ disrupted operations, 80+ cease-and-desists, right as Modern Warfare 4's wide-platform Open Beta went live ahead of its October 23 launch.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Modern Warfare 4's Beta reworks Create-a-Class so Operators are tied to individual loadouts, up to 12 at once, while Weekend Two brings back Warzone Resurgence on a new map called Zodiac.

BlizzCon 2026's confirmed guest list puts LE SSERAFIM and YOASOBI in the headliner slots, alongside T-Pain, Simu Liu, and deadmau5, making the celebrity lineup as much of a draw as the games.

Mortal Shell II, The Sinking City 2, and the indie ARPG Luminary all launched with the full DLSS 4.5 stack this week, a sign the feature set has become standard kit across budgets, not just flagship releases.

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.