Whenever you’re playing a single-player game, do you miss the toxic banter of teammates telling you how bad you are? Sometimes, it feels impossible to play without another voice in your ear. For those moments, Razer reintroduced Project AVA, an AI desk companion designed to keep you company while gaming and for more.

Project AVA

Technically, Razer already introduced the AI companion during last year’s CES 2025. This year, however, the brand has added more functionalities to the upcoming product, turning the device from a mere esports coach into an actual companion.

Previously, the assistant can use your camera, eye-tracking, audio input, and the screen to tell you how to get better in your chosen game. Now, Razer has added the ability to help you with everyday tasks like organizing schedules and suggesting fits.

Additionally, users can choose between a variety of 5-inch animated holograms as avatars, such as Kira, Zane, and even Japan’s favorite salary woman SAO. Users can also pick personalities for them from sassy to friendly.

Since it’s still a concept, there’s no word on when Project AVA will be available as a finished product.

Project Motoko

Last month, we reviewed the BlackShark V3 Pro, one of the most comfortable gaming headsets we’ve tried. Not content with prioritizing comfort, Razer has now added AI to a headset.

Project Motoko showcases a headset that uses AI technology to anticipate your needs. Besides a flurry of microphones, the headset uses two cameras positioned at eye level to analyze your surroundings. Razer says it can even track how many reps you’ve done at the gym and summarize a document you’re looking at.

Because the software is specifically designed to detect your surroundings, it can reportedly heighten your senses and find things you might have missed from your peripheral vision. Additionally, it can heighten your hearing and amplify conversations and sounds you might find important.

Project Madison

To cap it all off, Razer also unveiled an immersive gaming chair. Project Madison is a chair that uses lighting, audio, and haptic feedback to deliver an immersive gaming experience.

First of all, the chair uses Razer’s iconic Chroma RGB to simulate your surroundings while playing a game. With 16.8 million colors, it makes you feel visually immersed in your game.

Secondly, the chair has THX Spatial Audio. On its own, the chair’s speakers can provide audio immersion. Further, if you pair it with front speakers, you can upgrade this to a 7.1 surround sound system.

Thirdly, Project Madison features Razer Sensa HD Haptics to deliver a tactile sensation that makes you feel every impact and explosion.

MSI has officially released the GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning Z at CES 2026, marking its return after a seven-year wait.

This powerful, meticulously crafted, and most advanced flagship graphics card is forged for extreme overclocking and is elevated into a new class of liquid-cooled design.

It has a full 8-inch display panel — the world’s first on a graphics card — for personalization of system stats, artwork, and animations through an intuitive software control.

Carbon-fiber elements refine the backplate, paired with precise lightning-cut accents and an individually numbered badge that underscores rarity and collectible stature.

In fact, the visually striking graphics card will be produced in just 1,300 units.

Most advanced cooling system

Beneath the exterior is a fully evolved liquid cooled thermal system. There is a next-generation high-pressure pump and full-cover cold plate spanning the GPU, VRAM, and MOSFETs for even heat distribution.

A hybrid-fin radiator engineered with alternating dense and sparse sections create deliberate hot-cold exchange zones for maximum thermal efficiency.

Also inside is MSI’s exclusive Lightning Fan thermal architecture to deliver airflow, static pressure, and refined acoustics.

Built to break limits

Powered by NVIDIA Blackwell, GeForce RTX 50 Series GPUs enable new experiences for both gamers and creators.

Equipped with a massive level of AI horsepower and coupled with NVIDIA DLSS 4, users can expect next-level graphics fidelity and image generation at unprecedented speeds.

Meanwhile, a next-gen control ecosystem features Lightning Hub and Lightning Overdrive. Users can get instant, web-based tuning of parameters with the Hub.

On the other hand, the Overdrive companion mobile app brings real-time monitoring and overclocking control to any device.

Benchmarked for 17 overclocking records, the RTX 5090 Lightning Z serves as the ultimate platform for gamers, creators, and AI innovators.

I have a love-hate relationship with racing games. Though I love the thrill of driving fast virtually, the price of a full racing rig is enough to make you crash and burn. Even worse, some of the more robust sim games practically need a steering wheel. For CES 2026, GameSir announced the Swift Drive Controller, a hopefully affordable, albeit unique, way to play racing games.

Rather than a full steering wheel, the Swift Drive Controller attaches a smaller “wheel” in the middle of a traditional handheld controller. It’s not just a spinning dial, either. The Hall effect wheel has force feedback, much like an actual wheel. It can also move from 30 to 1080 degrees, depending on the setting.

All of the other buttons and triggers also have force feedback to simulate the feeling of driving, including ABS braking and wheel spin. There’s even some RGB lighting to simulate the game’s RPM.

The controller connects using a 2.4GHz wireless connection. GameSir says that a single charge can last up to 30 hours.

Currently, the Swift Drive does not have a definitive launch date. However, the company says that the controller is coming later this year. Similarly, it doesn’t have a price tag just yet. However, it’s likely less than a full rig, which is a boon for those who want to save.