Nvidia is hosting its first LAN party in over a decade to celebrate the RTX 50 series debut atCES2025. The LAN party (dubbedGeForce LAN 50) will start on January 4 at 4:30 pm PT and end right before Nvidia CES Jensen Huang gives his opening speech at the CES event in Las Vegas on January 6 at 6:30 pm PT. The main LAN event will occur in Las Vegas, while remote sessions will take place in Beijing, Berlin, and Taipei.
As mentioned, the LAN party will be a full-blown 50-hour gaming marathon with in-game and LAN contests, tournaments, and prize raffles. For everyone who won’t be able to get into the LAN party, Nvidia is providing additional prizes through its Nvidia App dubbed “LAN” missions. More prizes will be given out through the hashtag #GeForceGreats on social media.
Nvidia is going all out for its GeForce RTX 50 series debut early next month. The last time Nvidia hosted a LAN party was purportedly 13 years ago. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appears to have a deep love for LAN parties and has been caught attendingsmall LAN parties overseasand attending eSports events occasionally.
If anything has been made clear, Nvidia’s LAN 50 dispels doubts that theRTX 50seriesmight not be announced at CES 2025. Jensen Huang’s address will represent the first genuinely gaming-focused announcement since the RTX 40 series first launched. That said,CES 2025is not a gaming-focused event, so we still expect Nvidia to cover AI and any new AI hardware the company is working on.
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Aaron Klotz is a contributing writer for Tom’s Hardware, covering news related to computer hardware such as CPUs, and graphics cards.
