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.

Related Links:

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.

Releated Links:

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!

Related Links:

Win a Digital Copy of Warhammer Online Age of Reckoning

On Friday, August 8th, the Planet TeamSpeak web server will be offline for approximately 3 hours starting at 15:00 PM CEST. This is needed for some critical updates and to set up a database failover scenario. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause, and will endeavor to keep this downtime as short as possible. This also affects the Connection Test and Backup Utility applications.

Just in case you're worried about not being able to access our files, all the downloads are hosted on download.planetteamspeak.com which is another physical server.

Thank you for your patience during our maintenance work.

Update - 09 August 2008

We've successfully completed our maintenance activities, the Planet TeamSpeak website is now back online. Please report any bugs or unusual behaviour in our forums or contact us via email.

Related Links:

Planet TeamSpeak download area

On July 1st, 2008, the TeamSpeak Systems GmbH and Guild Software, Inc - independent game developer and creator of multiplayer virtual environments - announced the integration of TeamSpeak 3 software within Vendetta Online - a 3D space combat MMO for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. This is the first roll-out for this kind of integration and ideal production test-case for the TS developers, as Vendetta Online is one of a small number of true multi-platform games. Newcomers are welcome to visit the official Vendetta Online website and sign up for a free trial account.

"Our goal was to rapidly integrate TeamSpeak across all of our supported platforms: Windows, Linux/32bit, Linux/64bit, and universal Mac OS X. TeamSpeak delivered brilliantly on all counts." said John Bergman, CEO of Guild Software, Inc. By using the TeamSpeak 3 SDK, Vendetta Online became the first launched MMO with integrated voice chat across their game clients on each platform.

In addition to this joint effort, the TeamSpeak team is currently working on other integration projects ranging from military simulators to financial institutions, as well as other online games and virtual worlds.

Related Links:

News on TeamSpeak.com

Press Release on TeamSpeak.com

Vendetta Online website

As of today, Triton CI & Associates - the official sales & licensing partner of TeamSpeak - provides two new pages on their website. The first page called Licensed NPOs contains a list of all properly licensed Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs), which have been granted a special license that allows them to host more than 10 TeamSpeak servers at a time and between 1000 to 5000 slots total.

Probably the most exciting feature is the new Licensed IP Validation page. If you suspect that a TeamSpeak 2 server is being hosted illegally, you can use the script  to verify if an IP address is properly licensed. Due to security and performance reasons, you are limited to 10 searches every 5 minutes.

Update - 09 April 2007

Related Links:

Licensed NPOs on TritonCIA.com

Licensed IP Validation on TritonCIA.com

Support Center on TritonCIA.com

We're happy to announce that the first official TS3 FAQ has been opened on the official TeamSpeak website. Besides the usual questions about TS3's release date and voice quality, the FAQ section features some interesting factsabout backward compatibility and migration from TeamSpeak 2 to TeamSpeak 3.

The most important information is TeamSpeak 3 will in no way be compatible to TeamSpeak 2 beacuse the complete core and the protocol itself have been completely re-engineered and the TeamSpeak 3 server introduces a new database structure. The developers intend to provide migration tools to convert basic information such as a servers name, the welcome message, channel data and password settings.

Currently the FAQ section contains 8 entries. If you're interested in reading all of them, please check the official TeamSpeak website.

Related Links:

TeamSpeak 3 FAQ on TeamSpeak.com

So far, it's been an exciting weekend for the TeamSpeak community in Germany. After yesterday's interview in the buffed.de podcast, TeamSpeak had a second appearance in the media. Today, GIGA introduced several voice communication software solutions in the latest episode of GIGA eSports. Our good friend ginger|HFD was invited to the show to talk with the host Michael 'riCo' Bister about Ventrilo, Shockvoice, Mumble and last but not least TeamSpeak 2. In addition, the host had a short telephone interview with one of the TeamSpeak 3 developers - Peter Kirk.

In case you've missed the show or just want to watch it over and over again, you'll find a high quality version in GIGA's VoD (Video on Demand) section. We've also uploaded an 11 minute-long video of the presentation to our download server. The link can be found in our forums.

Related Links:

Review of the show on the GIGA.DE website

According thread in the Planet TeamSpeak forums