Friday, July 29, 2022

Acer Day 2022 ‘Re’affirms Commitment to Sustainability with the ‘Make Your Green Mark’ Campaign

 


The annual Acer Day celebration is back and will feature a special line-up of performances, sales promotions, rewards, and activities for everyone to enjoy! This year’s theme, ‘Make Your Green Mark’, highlights Acer’s care for the environment by reigniting its passion for sustainability practices and serves as a reminder for the collective efforts needed in making a “green mark.”


“Introduced in 2017, the Acer Day campaign has helped promote the company’s brand image among consumers as ‘Young and Stylish’, while promoting its advocacies, consumers, and channel partners. This year, with the focus on sustainable living and the promotion of the eco-friendly Vero series, Acer hopes to garner more support for environmental efforts and remind everyone of their duty to preserve and care for our planet,” said Andrew Hou, Acer Pan Asia Pacific President.

 

Acer Day 2022 will kick off with a manifesto video on August 3, 2022 at 8:00PM (GMT+0800hrs) featuring its 18 ambassadors from across seven regions. These include India’s Pankti Pandey, a zero-waste advocate and a TEDx Speaker; Malaysia’s Mei Yan, a top breakfast radio announcer who started an online channel called “Heal The Earth" to raise environmental awareness; Indonesian musicians Muhammad Pradana Budiarto and Ayudia C, environment patrons who wish to inspire entrepreneurs and start the #SayangBumi (love earth) greener lifestyle.

Also making appearances in the video are Vietnam’s Duong Thu Thao, a young and dynamic nature lover who follows a green lifestyle by practicing small sustainable actions daily ; Thailand’s Phakin Khamwilaisak, a leading musician and actor who has recently launched an environmental project entitled “Keb Ruk”; Taiwan's very own Atom Boyz-Earth, one of the most popular groups among the younger generation; and the Philippines’ group of Acer Day ambassadors, including Pop Princess Sarah Geronimo, Esports queen Alodia Gosiengfiao, and P-pop boy band sensation, SB19.

All of the Acer Day 2022 ambassadors are strong environment preservation advocates who have continued to make a positive impact to the global youth in their own ways.

 

The “Make Your Green Mark” campaign manifesto reads: A call to action for cleaner air, clearer waters, and a sustainable future. In the video, the Acer Day ambassadors share their passion to protect Mother Nature and encourage their fans and followers to make their green mark on the planet.

 

Come and join the festivities as we celebrate Acer Day 2022 on August 3 at 8pm (GMT+0800hrs).

 To support Acer Day and the Make Your Green Mark campaign, fans can watch the Acer Day concert featuring Sarah G, SB19, Adie, Sud, Janina Vela, Yow, Awi, CLR, and Parokya ni Edgar on August 7, 2022 at the MOA Arena. The concert is free! In order to get tickets, participants must do green initiatives such as joining Acer's social media contests and challenges, purchasing Acer products including those from Acer's sustainability line Aspire Vero, donating to GreenEarth Heritage Foundation; and collecting cleaned, washed and dried plastic waste and dropping them off at The Plaf, a social enterprise that recycles plastic.

For more information about Acer and Acer Day, follow Acer [Philippines] on its social media platforms: [@AcerPH] on Facebook, [@acerph] on Instagram, and [@acerphils] on Twitter or go to www.acer.com.

AMD released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1





AMD has released AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1, introducing new AMD Noise Suppression technology, expanded hardware support for Radeon Super Resolution upscaling technology, significant Minecraft performance increases, and a host of other optimizations and enhancements to elevate AMD gaming experiences to the next level:

  • AMD Noise Suppression – New AMD Noise Suppression technology reduces background noise from your surrounding environment using a real-time deep learning algorithm, providing greater audio clarity during meetings or competitive gameplay. More information can be found here.
  • Minecraft Performance Boost – New OpenGL optimizations offer driver-over-driver performance improvements on the Radeon RX 6400, RX 6500 XT, RX 6750 XT, RX 6800 XT, and RX 6950 XT graphics cards at 4K Fabulous settings – including up to a 92% performance uplift on the Radeon RX 6800 XT.¹
  • Expanded AMD Radeon Super Resolution Support – Provides expanded support for discrete Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 Series GPUs on AMD Ryzen notebooks with hybrid graphics, and adds borderless fullscreen support to further enhance the gaming experience.
  • Additional AMD Radeon Boost Game Support – Radeon Boost with Variable Rate Shading has been added to Elden Ring, VALORANT, and Resident Evil Village.
You can download the AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 driver here, and find the full release notes here.

RS-492 – Testing conducted by AMD as of July 14th, 2022, on a test system configured with a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU, 32GB DDR4, Radeon RX 6800XT GPU, and Windows 10 Pro, with AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition 22.7.1 and 22.6.1 on Minecraft.  Game tested with fabulous preset at 4K. Performance may vary.

The gaming universe that continues to evolve

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From bulky arcade gaming equipment to the Family Computer era and now through smartphones and tablets and powerful desktops, gaming will never fade. In fact, the gaming universe has even evolved to greater heights that was never expected and naturally, gaming hardware evolved as well.

 

But no matter how much gaming gear has evolved, from pulling levers to pushing buttons to eventually mouse clicks, the spirit of gamers will always be the same. It will always be about fun and excitement, coupled with outstanding IT equipment that can handle the hard-nosed demands that new generation of games require to bring out all the exhilaration and delight, especially as the world of electronic sports or e-sports continue to capture the imagination of the world’s current crop of gamers.

 

Among the earlier gaming gear brands that helped reshape the game, Aorus is a premium gaming brand powered by GIGABYTE and offers a full spectrum of gaming products: gaming laptops, motherboards, graphics cards, mechanical gaming keyboards, and other outstanding gaming hardware and gears for that extreme gaming experience gaming enthusiasts and serious gamers from all over the world look for so they can team up and fight on.

 

If you want to gear up and game on, MSI, a world leader in gaming, content creation, business and productivity and AIoT solutions, is definitely a perfect partner. With a wide-ranging global presence in over 120 countries, MSI has a robust range of laptops, graphics cards, monitors, motherboards, desktops, peripherals, servers, IPCs, robotic appliances, and vehicle infotainment and telematics systems that makes MSI a leading brand that shapes the future of technology.

 

A gaming brand designed by hardcore gamers for hardcore gamers, Predator took the world by storm by offering the ultimate product experience despite being a relatively latecomer in the highly competitive gaming world. The first gaming brand to win a coveted Red Dot Brand Award in 2019, Predator was widely regarded for its exceptional products such as desktops, laptops, monitors and accessories, plus its stunning Predator Thronos Air, a screen-filled paradise for the gamers with distinctive tastes, a professional-grade, massage-cushioned haven that will make every gamer drool with excitement.

 

Technology never sleeps, as they say, nor should the action, so Republic of Gamers (ROG) committed itself to provide an out-of-this-world experience for both gamers and enthusiasts around the world. Innovation is at the heart of ROG that allowed it to set standards across the entire gaming systems and PC components industry. Its motherboards made hardcore overclocking more accessible, while its exceptional graphics cards allowed for fluid gameplay and faster performance. ROG displays continue to aggressively adopt the latest display technologies that genuinely changed the spectrum of gaming, while its ultra-thin form factor gaming laptops continue to deliver desktop-class performance

 

Aorus. MSI. Predator. Republic of Gamers. These are just some of the award-winning IT brands that originated in Taiwan and have established a name in the world of gaming and continue to be the preferred gear for majority of today’s gamers. If you’re into gaming, these brands are definitely for you.

Thursday, July 28, 2022

Nexplay x UnionDigital Bank forges exclusive partnership to empower PH gaming community

 


Arvie De Vera, Co-founder and
CEO of UnionDigital Bank

Nexplay, the leading Southeast Asian esports and video game content ecosystem, and UnionDigital Bank, the digital bank entity of UnionBank, have signed an exclusive partnership that aims to offer more convenient digital financial services for Filipino gamers.

 

“UnionDigital Bank is driven to further empower the Philippines’ digital economy. Our partnership with Nexplay allows us to offer our financial services to today’s Filipino gamers, enabling them more by giving access to a digital bank account. We are looking forward to this collaboration with Nexplay to propel our higher purpose - Tech-ing Up today’s generation of Filipinos, especially gamers,” said Arvie De Vera, Co-founder and CEO of UnionDigital Bank.

 

In 2019, 43 million Filipino gamers spent a total of USD 572 million on games, four-fifths engaged with in-game microtransactions such as buying power-ups and game cosmetics. The following year, revenue generated by the online gaming industry sat at USD 24 million. As cashless payment methods grow in prominence due in part to the pandemic, UnionDigital Bank sees an opportunity to empower Filipino gamers by providing more accessible financial solutions not limited to traditional deposit accounts and debit cards.

 

De Vera continued, “Nexplay opens opportunities for us to engage our country’s digital natives in platforms they are quite familiar with: games. This is particularly important if you consider the rise of play-to-earn gaming and content streaming in the Philippines,”

 

Nexplay, a Singapore-based company with Filipino leadership, is scaling its business in the Philippines. After reporting a 150% year-on-year revenue growth early this year, Nexplay is gearing up to develop its own Web3 IP in the digital gaming space. The premier Southeast Asian esports gaming brand brings a 250 million-strong built community of video game enthusiasts, young professional esports athletes, over 400 high profile content creators and a solid portfolio of more than 200 big brands and clients.

 


(L-R) Mike Garcia, Chief Finance Officer of UnionDigital Bank; Miguel Bernas, President and Co-Founder of NEXPLAY; Arvie De Vera, CEO and Co-founder of UnionDigital Bank; Gabriel Benito, CEO and Co-founder of NEXPLAY; Mike Singh, Chief Revenue and Lending Officer of UnionDigital Bank; Munmun Nath, Chief Marketing Officer of UnionDigital Bank; Boom Eufemio, Chief Community Officer of UnionDigital Bank


“For Nexplay, our mission has always been helping gamers succeed. Working with UnionDigital Bank will help crystallize this combined vision of making financial services more accessible to our massive gaming community, our fans, our teams and our talents to enrich their digital experience. Together, we are committed to encourage greater financial inclusion within the rapidly growing gaming community in the Philippines, especially the next-generation gamers.” shared Gabriel Paulo Benito, Co-founder and CEO of Nexplay.