News & Reviews:   SOUTHEAST ASIA

In a significant move for gamers across Southeast Asia, Nintendo confirmed today that its much-anticipated Nintendo eShop and Nintendo Switch Online services will officially launch in Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand on 18 November 2025. This marks a major milestone as the company expands its digital ecosystem to more global markets.

Google Cloud has announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), a new open standard to securely initiate and process payments led by AI agents. The move is a significant step into the future of commerce, particularly for Southeast Asia, where the combined gross merchandise value of e-commerce and other online services exceeded RM1.1 trillion in 2024. So, would you use an AI Agent to do your shopping?

According to The Guardian, TikTok has confirmed that thousands of employees in Southeast Asia and the United Kingdom have been laid off as their jobs are being taken over by artificial intelligence (AI). So, what should you know about it?

Those looking for a streaming service alternative may have good news. Warner Bros. Discovery is partnering with Viu to introduce a new streaming bundle that combines Western and regional content under one subscription. Designed for markets across Southeast Asia—including Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand.

Besides the OPPO Find X8 series launch today, OPPO also shared its commitment to bringing its products and services to users worldwide. This requires companies to have a robust supply chain, delivery system, retail resellers, and more.

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.