Min-Liang Tan, the CEO of Razer, with Forge TV.
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Razer plants the flag for open standards for gamers with Forge TV and OSVR (video)

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LAS VEGAS — Min-Liang Tan, the chief executive of Razer, doesn’t view Razer as a gaming company. Rather, he says it’s a company for gamers. It builds products with the enthusiast Razer brand that gamers would want to own, and that’s not always purely a gaming device.

The latest example of that thinking is Forge TV, an Android-based microconsole that will debut early this year for $100. I caught up with Tan at the Razer booth (which was bathed in Razer’s green-and-black signature colors) at the 2015 International CES, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. Forge TV was among 600 gaming products debuting at CES, and Tan was quite proud of it.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.