CyberSports Scores with Voice from Vivox

Vivox, a provider of integrated voice communication services for online games and virtual worlds, today announced that CyberSports will include Vivox voice services in its upcoming release, Football Superstars.

Through this online soccer game, which is due for release later this year, players use voice to control athletes on the field and to interact with other players in the virtual football-based world. CyberSports plans to use the same principles to expand into other sports.

CyberSports will integrate Vivox voice chat to match the unique environment of Football Superstars and to create the real-life excitement of the game—the strategy, taunts, and heated exchanges—on and off the field. Vivox will host and manage the voice application to ensure operational scale and stability and to eliminate game server impact. In addition to 3D voice chat, players have access to voice fonts, buddy lists, presence alerts, voice mail, SMS, and user management tools.

"Our design goals and user experience requirements for Football Superstars demanded the most stable, scalable and user friendly voice technology available. Vivox was the obvious choice based on their proven performance and operations experience," said Malcolm Clark, CEO of CyberSports. "We’re confident that our players will have the most immersive and advanced voice experience available with the Vivox service. We’ll be bringing market leading voice technology and features to our community with full confidence that our community is in good hands."

Other game developers already using Vivox technologies include CCP Games, Icarus Studios, K2 Network, Linden Lab, NCsoft, Pixel Mine Games, Sony Online Entertainment, and Wizards of the Coast.