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SAN DIEGO, June 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced its E3 product line-up, which will be revealed in Los Angeles June 5-7. Gamers in attendance will have the chance to be among the first to get hands-on with the highly-anticipated shooter PlanetSide® 2, while also being treated to the latest updates from some of SOE's most popular franchises, including: DC Universe(TM) Online, EverQuest® II, Free Realms®, Star Wars®: Clone Wars...
NATICK, Mass., March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivox Inc., a leader in social communications, today announced its acquisition of Droplet Inc., a developer of unique, patented technology to deliver a high-quality video chat experience on mobile networks. Vivox will integrate Droplet's mobile video software into its VoiceEverywhere(TM) platform, which serves more than 80 million fans generating 3.5 billion minutes of voice chat each month. The Droplet acquisition will augment...
Leadership to build a new institute for industry/academic collaboration WORCESTER, Mass., Dec. 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Massachusetts Digital Games Institute (MassDiGI), based at Becker College, announces the appointment of Monty Sharma as managing director. Until recently, Vivox, Inc. co-founder Sharma was the general manager for the integrated voice chat firm, which primarily services the video game market. Sharma will employ his extensive experience to accelerate...
SAN DIEGO, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sony Online Entertainment LLC (SOE) today announced PlanetSide 2, the reimagining of the ever-popular massively multiplayer online first person shooter (MMOFPS) game, PlanetSide. PlanetSide 2 takes all the groundbreaking features from the original game - massive multiplayer battles, distinctive empires to rally around, and enormous continents to support intense ground and air combat - and adds features that modern gamers have come to expect out of the...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of Think Services' Game Developer magazine, a sister publication to Gamasutra, have named the finalists for the 2009 Front Line Awards, the magazine's 12th annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engine, middleware, and books. Game Developer's mission for over fifteen years has been to provide game developers with information, news, and articles that pertain directly to them....
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexon America announced today its new partnership with Vivox to add free voice chat to the popular online game Combat Arms. This is a major addition to the popular multiplayer online first-person shooter (FPS), which has over three million registered users since launching last year. "Our players have been asking for this feature and now they've got it," said Min Kim, vice president of marketing at Nexon America. "And with Vivox as our partner, they're...
Members of the popular social network Facebook could soon be chatting with friends via voice.However, this new feature is not going to be offered by Facebook, but by third-party developers who create apps for the Web site.On Tuesday, Natick, Mass-based voice service provider Vivox announced the launch of a new initiative called Vivox Labs, which is intended to "capture and incubate new ideas around using Web Voice to create voice and web mashups," the company said in a statement.Vivox...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of Think Services' Game Developer Magazine have named the finalists for the 2008 Front Line Awards, the magazine's eleventh annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engines, middleware, and books. Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of favorite tools for professional game developers, and uses a combination of reader...
Vivox Inc. (www.vivox.com), the market leader in voice services for online games and virtual worlds, today announced the company has entered into an agreement with 38 Studios (www.38studios.com) to provide voice technology for its upcoming massively multiplayer online game. "38 Studios has quickly established itself as a creative heavyweight in the development community and we believe the innovative use of voice further extends that creativity throughout the entertainment experience," said...
