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It's looking like 2020 isn't a good year to pick up a Nintendo Switch, not if you already bought one before prices started spiking. Major supply issues and increase in demand saw prices of the console soar recently and even though Nintendo supposedly raised the production of parts by 20%, it's still not enough. A new report claims that a new round of shorage is very likely to happen.

Announced back in February 2020 (way before the MCO), Acer Malaysia is now offering the Acer Spin 3 for pre-order from 13 May 2020 till 15 May 2020. During these 3 days, there will be 50 pre-order slots for the Spin 3 convertible laptop with a built-in Acer Active Stylus running Wacom AES that offers freebies worth up to RM1000.

Looking for a new game to play? Well, prepare to empty your wallets for the Steam Summer Sale is just around the corner. Leaks of the confirmed dates have appeared online, claiming that 2-week sale will run from 25 June to 9 July 2020.

If you missed hanging around past midnight a few hours ago, we got some news for you. In the season of remastered games, the legendary Tony Hawk's Pro Skater has been announced as the latest addition. Promptly dubbed as Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1+2, the remastered edition is scheduled to be released on 4 September 2020 for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC (Epic Games Store).

A lot of smartphones have similarities these days, so we always appreciate seeing different designs that stand out from the norm. That seems to be what vivo is going for, as a new patent from the company was recently discovered. The patent depicts a device that comes with a slide mechanism.

When it comes to using a preferred music platform on your smartphone, Spotify would be the popular choice, then there's also Apple Music but nobody, absolutely nobody will tell you Google Play Music is pretty good. It has a rather wacky job on display album covers, the songs titles will follow exactly as the file name (which will turn out funny-looking), and the user interface is just bland. Thankfully, YouTube Music is here to save the day. 

If there's one kind of source of info that many have come to appreciate, it would be benchmark platforms. They're useful in unveiling products that were unknown previously, which could be the purpose of these 'leaks' we get all the time. Anyway, the Geekbench 5 score for a Xiaomi device that appeared recently and it's speculated to be the Redmi 10X.

Back at the end of April, Facebook introduced Messenger Rooms where people are allowed to have a video call up to 50 people. That's pretty cool and all considering that most people have Messenger already so they don't need to register at all, and it seems that WhatsApp users will be able to access into that soon!

Businesses have been impacted thoroughly since the beginning of movement control order (MCO), especially on local businesses. Recently, Facebook and Instagram have launched a new tool respectively to aid local businesses via gift cards to direct people to local businesses and purchase them through third-party partner sites.

Jabra Malaysia has officially announced that they have unveiled several headsets called the Evolve2 in Malaysia and it will be available for purchase starting from June 2020 onwards. The Evolve2 headsets come in several variants including the Evolve2 85, Evolve2 65, as well as the Evolve2 40 which starts from RM2599, RM1699, and RM759 respectively.