Razer Forge TV Wins “Best of CES” Awards
Razer Forge TV Wins “Best of CES” Awards
Android TV micro-console selected as Engadgets Best Gaming and Peoples Choice winner, earning Razers fifth consecutive CES Best of accolade
Jan. 8, 2015: LAS VEGAS (CES 2015) Razer, a world leader in connected devices and software for gamers, took top honors at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) with its Razer Forge TV. The company has now won an official Best of CES award for five straight years, a record in the 48-year history of the storied tradeshow.
Engadget, the official awards partner at CES 2015, selected the Razer Forge TV as the winner for the Best Gaming product at the show. The device also won Peoples Choice by way of an open public vote. Razers past Best of CES honors included Peoples Voice in 2011 and 2012; Best of Show, Best Gaming and Peoples Voice in 2013; and Best PC and Peoples Choice in 2014.
Razer Forge TV was also acknowledged by GottaBeMobile, Android Central, Expert Reviews and Ubergizmo for its innovation and was Digital Trends finalist in the Gaming category.
The Razer Forge TV is a solution that brings the best of PC gaming and streaming entertainment into the living room, says Min-Liang Tan, Razer co-founder and CEO. We successfully engineered a micro-console in an elegant form factor with sufficient power and connectivity required of hardcore gamers, with peripherals that uniquely enable high-performance gaming in a casual home environment. With the additional ability to stream movies and other media, and to play the best Android games directly on ones TV, the Razer Forge is truly a micro-console for the next generation of gamers.
Multimedia content and Android games from Google Play are powered by the devices quad-core Qualcomm CPU and dedicated GPU. Razer Forge TV will also bring hardcore PC gaming into the living room with its Razer Cortex: Stream software and Razer Turret lapboard.
Razer Cortex: Stream, developed in concert with cloud graphics company OTOY, sets the streaming benchmark for frames per second and provides ultra-low latency gaming and up to full-HD resolution with a standard Wi-Fi or Ethernet connection. Unlike other solutions, Razer Cortex: Stream is compatible with most popular PC brand components including NVIDIA and AMD and can support Directx9 games and higher from any publisher.
Razers two other announcements from CES 2015 the Nabu X social wearable and Open Source Virtual Reality (OSVR) also stood out from a crowded field of new technology. The Nabu X won TechRadars Best Fitness Tech and Toms Guides Readers Choice awards. OSVR in turn took Reviewed.coms Editors Choice, TechRadars Peoples Choice, and Stuff.tvs Top Wearable Tech awards and was selected by Popular Science in its Best on the Showroom Floor.
For more information on Razers announcements from CES 2015, please visit www.razerzone.com.
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About Razer:
Razer is a world leader in connected devices and software for gamers.
Razer is transforming the way people play games, engage with other gamers and identify with the gamer lifestyle. Having won the coveted Best of CES award consecutively for four years, the companys leadership in product innovation continues to create new categories for the gaming community that is estimated to have over 1 billion gamers worldwide.
Razers award-winning design and technology include an array of user interface and systems devices, voice-over IP for gamers and a cloud platform for customizing and enhancing gaming devices.
Founded in 2005, Razer is backed by IDG-Accel and Heliconia Capital Management (Heliconia), a wholly owned subsidiary of Singapore investment company Temasek. For more information visit http://www.razerzone.com/about-razer.
About OTOY Inc.
OTOY Inc. is the definitive cloud graphics company, pioneering technology that is redefining content creation and delivery for gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality around the world. OTOYs Academy Award-winning technology is used by leading game and visual effects studios, artists, animators, designers, architects, and engineers, providing unprecedented creative freedom, new levels of realism, and new economics in content creation and distribution powered by the cloud. For more information, visit www.otoy.com.
