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Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4's "Stranded" vignette shows a tense North Korea infiltration mission, but its real purpose is reminding pre-order customers they get campaign access a week early, on October 16, ahead of the October 23 global launch.

ASUS Philippines is offering eligible 2025 through 2027 ASUS and ROG laptop owners three free months of Google AI Pro or Google AI Plus starting September 7, redeemed through MyASUS. The subscription auto-renews at full price once the trial ends.

hololive Production announced its first TV anime, teased as "OdeHolo" and animated by Studio KAI, with a full reveal show planned for September 23 featuring hololive talents.

NVIDIA's biggest IFA 2026 announcement isn't a new chip. It's PAIR, a free tool that pools every idle RTX PC on a home network into shared AI compute, alongside faster local inference and new RTX Spark laptops from Acer and Lenovo shipping in October.

Acer's new PA100 portable SSD, manufactured by BIWIN under license, tops out at USB 3.2 Gen 1 speeds instead of chasing Thunderbolt numbers. The real spec worth noticing is its sub-1W idle power draw, built for everyday use tethered to a phone or thin laptop.

Microsoft's Project Zenith reconfigures Windows 11 for developer-class PCs with 64GB or more of memory, debuting exclusively on AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ platform before any other silicon partner.

ASUS's ROG Rapture GT-BN98 is on sale now in Canada as the first retail WiFi 8 router, ahead of an October worldwide release, even though no WiFi 8 client devices exist yet to take advantage of it.

LG showcased seven home appliances at IFA 2026, headlined by its first hair dryer, the AirDew, aimed squarely at Dyson. The lineup also includes a 25-inch WashTower, an LLM-powered SIGNATURE refrigerator, and a high-efficiency washer-dryer pair, mostly positioned for a European launch first.

LG Electronics took home Best Brand of IFA 2026, the top overall prize at the IFA Innovation Awards, along with category wins for its Wallpaper TV and Sound Suite AI. Most of the honored products, including the W6 TV and xboom Stage 501, still lack confirmed Philippine pricing.

NVIDIA unveiled DLSS 5 in March as its biggest graphics leap since ray tracing, promising it to AAA names like Starfield and Resident Evil Requiem. Its actual September 3 debut lands in NBA 2K27 instead.

ASUS unveiled ProArt P16, P14 laptops and the GR1X mini PC powered by NVIDIA's data-center-grade RTX Spark chip at IFA 2026, promising 128GB of unified memory and local AI agents, with no price yet announced.

Fall 2026's confirmed lineup so far: The Apothecary Diaries Season 3, Black Clover's five-year comeback, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, Steel Ball Run's next stage, and a remastered Dragon Ball Super: Beerus arc.