News & Reviews:   SOUTHEAST ASIA

Diablo Immortal has been released for quite some time globally but not in the regions of Asia Pacific (Hong Kong, Indonesia, Macao, Malaysia, The Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Thailand). Initially, the first delay was scheduled for 22 June but now it has been pushed back once again to 7 July 2022 (PDT). This has been officially confirmed by Blizzard Entertainment. 

Grab is set to launch a new brand called GrabFin which will combine Grab Financial Group’s (GFG) payments and financial services features. Announced in a statement yesterday, the new arm offers users a single entry point to access payment, investment and insurance services on the Grab application.

If you pay attention to smartphone launches, you would notice that many brands emphasise mobile gaming performance now. As you know, some brands even have gaming smartphones. That shows how much mobile gaming is growing, and a new report provides some insights on that.

Over the past year, Opensignal has given us plenty of reports that Malaysians have relied on mobile broadband plans by local telco operators. You would think that by now, it would make more sense to subscribe to an actual WiFi package but that's not the case. In this article, we will be taking a look at the monthly mobile data consumption in the Southeast Asia region from January 2020 until March 2021.

With 5G connectivity underway for Malaysia by the end of 2021 (according to our PM), the Malaysian Government has also announced that they will be launching the first 5G CyberSecurity Testing Laboratory. Malaysia will be the first in the Southeast Asia country to do so and it will be a joint effort with CyberSecurity Malaysia (CSM), Huawei Malaysia and Celcom.

Razer, in partnership with Zouk Group, has officially announced that they will be hosting the first cloud clubbing experience in Southeast Asia, which will take place on 27 March 2020 from 8PM onwards. In terms of the platform, they will be utilizing Bigo Live app which can be downloaded from either the Google Play Store or the Apple App Store.

Based on a report by thestar.com.my, Indonesian’s most popular motorcycle hailing service called Go-Jek could be available in Malaysia very soon. Based on a statement by Entrepreneur Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd Reduan Yusof, it might take about a month or two for the Youth and Sports Ministry as well as the Transport Ministry to work on the kinks before allowing the service to roll-out in Malaysia.