p class="MsoNormal">If you love FPS games, you probably already know that this is the year of the FPS Game.  Check out the IGN.COM reviews of Crysis, Call of Duty 4, Quake Wars, Unreal Tournament 3 (2007), just to name a few…  I believe that 3D VOIP is going to make all these FPS Games infinitely better.  Imagine communicating fluidly over VOICE with your team and smoothly hearing which direction they are on the map according to the sound of their voice.  Coordinating attacks couldn’t be simpler than that!  The price you pay for VOIP is performance though… and that performance price tag is the #1 Reason that VOIP is NOT being done in today’s games.  The Killer NIC is about to change all of that.  The biggest news, and why I haven’t posted in a while, is that the Killer NIC now supports fully offloaded 3D positional VOIP from DiamondWare.

This announcement is the result of a partnership with DiamondWare the makers of the VOIP running inside Second Life, and many other games.  We have a lot of plans for how this will roll out to Killer owners and get progressively better, more integrated, easy to use, and just an AWESOME USE OF YOUR KILLER NIC.  Imagine, with the Killer NIC fully offloading VOIP inside of it, your CPU is 100% dedicated to the game, and not to VOIP, your Networking is perfectly balanced and VOIP won’t slow down your Game Networking/Latencies… all while you are experiencing the absolute best quality VOIP!  This new feature of the Killer NIC will be demonstrated very soon (stay tuned)… and a whole new era of gaming is about to begin.

The gluttony of AWESOME FPS and MMO Games is NOT a bad thing… it’s a huge opportunity for some awesome gaming: especially with fully accelerated 3D VoIP.