On Tuesday, March 24th, Bigfoot Networks - developer of technologies designed to help reduce network latency - announced that they partnered with TeamSpeak to deliver accelerated voice chat on their new Killer Xeno platform. The technology offloads all TS3 voice chat processes to the Killer Xeno architecture, bringing you voice chat with no performance hit in any game you play.

"We are excited to be working with Bigfoot Networks and delighted that TeamSpeak 3 will be an integral part of its next-generation Xeno product," said Florence Espinoza, TeamSpeak director of sales. "TeamSpeak has catered to the online gaming community for years, attracting the same extreme and competitive-play users that are attracted to Bigfoot's products. We are confident that the integrated hardware solution we are working on will meet their demands."

Bigfoot Networks stated earlier that they know that online gaming and online living are inseparable and that's why they've tackled the things gamers need most on top of gaming - hardware accelerated voice chat, hardware bandwidth control, and a hardware firewall and other tools, all built to run behind the scenes on their NPU (Network Processing Unit).

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Press Release on Marketwire.com

Bigfoot Networks website

In yesterdays news and press release, the TeamSpeak development team announced that TeamSpeak 3 will be featured as the integrated voice-communication solution for America's Army 3 (AA3). AA is a video game developed by the United States Army and released as a global public relations initiative to help with recruitment.

"Current America's Army players use TeamSpeak 2 with great success as it offers them the clear voice communication they need for effective teamwork," said Michael Bode, AA Executive Producer. "The quality of the TeamSpeak products simply can't be beaten. TeamSpeak 3 is becoming the default third-party VoIP solution on the PC platform. It offers us so many exciting features, and we plan to take advantage of them all, some in the initial release and others later with each AA3 expansion pack."

America's Army 3 uses Unreal Engine 3 and the game developers brought the most popular trademark gameplay features from previous AA releases to AA3.

"TeamSpeak 3 provides America's Army with a very high quality VoIP system that will make America's Army 3 an even better product," said Bill Perez, lead programmer for AA3. "The TeamSpeak 3 Software Development Kit made the integration of TeamSpeak 3's VoIP system into America's Army 3 very fast and easy. The excellent documentation, fast technical support, and easy to follow sample code all combined to make the process of integrating TeamSpeak 3 into America's Army 3 an efficient and cost-effective way to add quality VoIP."

Stay tuned!

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News on TeamSpeak.com

Press Release on TeamSpeak.com

America's Army 3 website

Today, we've great news for the TeamSpeak community. Issue 1/2009 of the PC GAMES Hardware magazine contains an exciting article about the TeamSpeak 3 ALPHA. The PC GAMES Hardware test labs were visited by Ralf Ludwig and Peter Kirk - managing directors of the recently founded TeamSpeak Systems GmbH and lead developers of the TS3 client and server software - and had the exclusive chance to test a pre-release version of TeamSpeak 3.

"With the latest ALPHA release, the developers have given us a preview on the new TeamSpeak 3. From our view, the voice quality and latency will set new standards." said Lars Craemer - author of the article. "Already the ALPHA release can live up to the expectations to TeamSpeak 3. Reasonable new features in combination with superior voice quality and lower latency are more than enough reasons to switch to TS3."

TeamSpeak 3 will introduce a new authentication system. Instead of using a combination of username and password, TS3 now uses unique IDs to verify the users identity on all servers. All permissions and settings are bound to this ID so the drama of wannabe hackers guessing the administrators passwords should finally be solved. In addition, every identity can be added to a Friend/Foe list which allows you to mute or ignore annoying users.

Probably one of the most exciting features is TeamSpeak 3's File Transfer functionality. Depending on your permissions, you'll be able to up- and download files from a channels filebase. This feature offers unimagined possibilities. For example, clan leaders will be able to spread the latest patches for the games they're playing with their team mates. The path to your own TeamSpeak 3 file sharing network is set.

As a bonus, the arcticle contains some exclusive screenshots, an interview with the developers and additional details about features that were already announced in the past. To read the full article, simply get issue 1/2009 of the PC GAMES Hardware magazine visit the media archive on their website.

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PC GAMES Hardware website

With todays developer blog entry, the TeamSpeak team not only announced that they're searching some new testers for TeamSpeak 3's closed ALPHA testing phase, but also published some brand new screenshots of the TeamSpeak 3 client software on all three platforms - namely Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Many users have asked for this in the official TeamSpeak forums for a long time, and now the devs have managed to cleanup the interface and icons enough to be able to present something that doesn't look too bad.

The new screenshots reveal a few new TS3 features (e.g. the ability to use images in channel descriptions) and help you to get a clearer picture of the features that were already announced before. Please keep in mind that the clients GUI is still work in progress and does NOT show the final product.

Hit the link below and check out the screenshots on TeamSpeak's developer blog page.

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Developer Blog on TeamSpeak.com

Happy Halloween everyone! We've some great news for the TeamSpeak community. Moments ago, the TeamSpeak development team announced that they're searching for a few testers to join the TS3 closed ALPHA test team. At this point the devs are looking for people using Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer) or Linux (x86 or amd64) as their primary Operating System.

If you're a Windows user, please DO NOT apply for this ALPHA testing phase. TeamSpeak Systems has set up a strong list of requirements as they're searching for new qualified ALPHA testers - not just users. Read these requirements carefully. If you apply although you do not match the testing requirements, the developers might also ignore your applications for further tests.

Stay tuned to the official TeamSpeak website as a new developer blog entry is currently prepared which will contain some exciting new details about the upcoming TeamSpeak 3 client software.

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Apply for the TeamSpeak 3 Linux/Mac OS X Closed Alpha Test

In the early morning hours, the official TeamSpeak website has received a major update including some design improvements and lots of new content. With this update, the TeamSpeak website is finally available in German language which is a huge step for the German TS community.

In addition, the website also announces that the next generation Software Development Kit for TS3 is now available. The TeamSpeak 3 Software Development Kit (SDK) offers a complete integrated solution for onlinegames, virtual worlds, social networks, military simulators, education,or any application where up to thousands of users require crystal clearsimultaneous voice communication. The SDK features cross-platformsupport for Windows (32-Bit and 64-Bit), Mac OS X (Intel and PPC), and Linux (32-Bit and 64-Bit) on both client and server. The TeamSpeak 3 SDK has already shipped in a cross-platform, massively multiplayer game Vendetta Online. Additional titles, services, social networks, virtual worlds, andbusiness applications utilizing the SDK are also in progress and willbe announced soon.

If you're interested in testing the TS3 SDK, simply request a no obligation, free evaluation version on TeamSpeak's website.

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Request a free evaluation version of the TS3 SDK on TeamSpeak.com

It's been one and a half year since we informed all of you that a new version of the TS Admin-Client is in development. We've formed a team of 20 testers and the software has been in closed ALPHA stage for more than one year. As you might heave read in Thomas' blog, the development has beed paused several times for various reasons. Today, it's my duty to officially announce, that the development of the TS Admin-Client 2 (TSAC2) has been stopped permanently with build 1485.

Since the public release of TeamSpeak 3 is getting closer each day and most of our team members already have access to it, we want to concentrate our engineering resources on our TS3 related projects. Nevertheless we decided to take Thomas' latest TSAC2 ALPHA build and make it available to the public. An installer package can be found in our download area, but unless any major/critical bugs are found, this will be the first and last public release of the TS Admin-Client 2.

In comparsion with the first TSAC, the performance of the TS Admin-Client 2 has been increased dramatically. In addition, the software provides new features such as Multi-Tabbed server management, Multi-Select for clients and channels and server profiles.

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Download TS Admin-Client 2.3.3 ALPHA

As our first special event in 2008, Planet TeamSpeak and TeamSpeak Systems are offering the chance for you to win a digital download version of Warhammer Online - Age of Reckoning (officially abbreviated as WAR), the new MMORPG based on Games Workshop's Warhammer fantasy setting.

Every member of our community who is at least 13 years old can participate in this competition. The winner of the competition will be drawn at random from the collected entries and will get his game key immediately via email. The game client can be downloaded on the official WAR website. This competition closes on October 1st.

To win the game, click the appropriate link below and answer three simple questions.

Good luck!

Update - 1 October 2007

The competition has ended. You are no longer able to participate. The winner is doc_wumsen. Congratulations to you!

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Win a Digital Copy of Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning