News & Reviews:   sports

Next month, the world's most popular sports tournament will return, but Malaysians had to wait a very long time to see which local platform would be the official broadcaster. The air is cleared now, as Astro Malaysia officially confirmed that it will no longer be the primary broadcaster for the FIFA World Cup 2026. The move ends Astro’s uninterrupted 20-year run as the tournament’s home in Malaysia.

Meta has announced a new feature for Threads called Live Chats, designed to bring real-time, public group conversations into the platform during major events. Rather than being a typical feature update, this move signals a bigger shift in how Threads wants users to engage with content, especially during live moments like sports matches, entertainment drops, or breaking news.

FIFA announced a strategic partnership with Lenovo as the official technology partner for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. As a reminder, next year's World Cup will be held in North America - specifically in the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Apple is reportedly gearing up a bid for the streaming rights to the English Premier League (EPL) which is soon coming up for renewal. The deal may cost the tech giant up to USD250 million or ~RM1.08 billion per year.

Nintendo had earlier announced Switch Sports for its current hot-selling console to continue to legacy of Wii Sports. The new instalment will bring tennis, bowling, chambara, soccer, volleyball, and badminton. Besides these, it has also confirmed that a future update will include golf. However, it looks like those are not all the sports that the players will get.

OPPO has recently announced that you could get an OPPO Festive Night Run Ticket worth RM55, when you purchase any OPPO Smartphone from 12 November 2019 onwards. In addition to that, you could also get a runner kit worth more than RM164 as well.

Huawei has announced that the Huawei Watch GT 2 46mm variant will be available from today onwards at all Huawei Stores across Malaysia. Huawei has also stated that if you were to purchase the smartwatch which is currently priced at RM799, they will also throw in a Watch GT 2 Strap which is worth RM69 for free.

GoPro has officially launched the GoPro Hero 8 Black as well as the GoPro Max with the price of 399USD(~RM1673), and 499USD(~RM2092) respectively. As for the availability, the Hero 8 will be available globally starting 11 October while the GoPro Max’s availability date will be from 24 October 2019 onwards.

Tokyo 2020’s organizing committee has unveiled the designs of the Bronze, Silver and Gold Olympic medals which will be awarded to the winners of their respective sport. The medals will be made out of materials extracted from 6.21 million pieces of electronics. The extraction resulted in a total of 32kg of gold, 3500kg of silver as well as 2200kg of bronze metal.

Raja Futsal by Digi and Vivo is offering up to RM100000, RM20000 and RM2500 prize in cash for the top 4 teams of the tournament. Not only that, there will be additional cash prizes, medals and merchandises for teams that made it to top 4 during the state level qualifiers.