Metaversum®, Simutronics® & Stratics Select Vivox® for Integrated Voice

Vivox Inc., winner of the 2007 Game Developer Magazine Frontline Award for Best Audio Tool, today announced new customer integrations and enhanced features, extending the Company’s leadership in integrated voice communications for online games and expanding the reach of the Vivox Network. Vivox will be providing their advanced voice solutions and services to Metaversum, Simutronics and Stratics. Metaversum: Metaversum has integrated Vivox voice services into Twinity™, a virtual world that is closely tied to the real world and thus enables its members to expand their lives. Users will speak naturally in 3D spatial audio by simply walking up to one another, or in private group channels. Simutronics: The Vivox Precision Studio™ SDK is now offered as an embedded technology option within the HeroEngine MMO development platform. The inclusion of Vivox now enables Simutronics’ developers to add a full-featured voice solution with the proven ability to deliver voice on a massive scale. Stratics: Stratics, an industry respected MMO portal, will provide Vivox’s voice solution to connect its 500,000+ subscribers with voice, buddy lists, presence indicators and other enhanced features. “The Vivox Network brings unprecedented scale and support to gamers globally,” said Monty Sharma, Vice President, Product Management and co-Founder of Vivox. “Our focus from day one has been to give game developers new tools to increase immersion and build community. We are pleased to add these companies to the Vivox Network.” “Vivox has quickly made its mark in the online game industry. Integrated voice communications is no longer a ‘nice to have’ feature but is a critical component. Developers must advance game play and community development, and voice is the next obvious technology to help do so,” said George Dolbier, CTO Games and Interactive Entertainment for IBM. “I am continuously impressed with the Vivox team and their ability to deliver a stellar solution.” Vivox will be showcasing client implementations and other feature advancements such as server side recording and enhanced voice fonts at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), February 20-22, 2008 in booth 5216, North Hall at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California. For more details and pricing please contact Vivox at 508-270-5090, or send email to info@vivox.com. About Vivox, Inc.
Vivox provides high quality, massively scalable, voice chat for online games and virtual worlds. Developers can enhance game play and foster community with Vivox’s advanced feature set and unparalleled service. Today, the Vivox Network supports millions of users in more than 180 countries. Customers include CCP Games, Icarus Studios, K2 Network, Linden Lab, Pixel Mine Games, Wizards of the Coast and others. For more information: www.vivox.com. About Metaversum
Metaversum develops and operates the 3D online world Twinity. This visionary endeavor mashes up the real with the virtual world. Twinity offers its members the ability to populate the digital world with their own avatars, design 3D homes, communicate with friends, engage in shared media experiences, work or simply have fun. Members of the Twinity community enrich and expand their lives by integrating real life into the virtual world. Twinity is currently in its private beta phase. Founded in July 2006 and financed by leading venture capital firms, Metaversum has offices in Berlin and Kiev. For more information: www.metaversum.com and www.twinity.com. About Simutronics Corp.
Simutronics Corp. is a leading creator of an advanced technology platform for developers in the multi-billion dollar global market for massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. Its HeroEngine platform provides a complete technology solution for MMO developers, which takes years off time to market by providing a streamlined creative pipeline and a complete toolset in an integrated turnkey solution. Customers include EA’s BioWare Austin studio and ZeniMax Online. Simutronics has offices in St. Charles, MO and Gaithersburg, MD. More information on HeroEngine is available at www.heroengine.com. Corporate information is online at www.play.net/corporate. About Stratics
Founded in 1997, Stratics is the world’s oldest operator of online communities for massively multiplayer gaming enthusiasts. The Company’s flagship Stratics Network caters to millions of visitors each month from around the world across nearly two dozen sites. For more information: www.stratics.com.