Bigfoot Networks has announced that their next-gen version of network interface card, the Killer Xeno, is ready for release. For online MMO players who are always in the market for improved performance and chat abilities, the Xeno seems to be the NIC of choice. Check out all the Killer Xeno features below: Bigfoot Networks Launches Killer Xeno?: Second-Generation Gaming Network Card Partners Alienware and EVGA First to Distribute Killer Xeno; TeamSpeak and Vivox First to Partner for Killer Xeno Voice-Chat Acceleration SAN FRANCISCO, Game Developers Conference - March 23, 2009 - Bigfoot Networks, the networking technology company behind the Killer? line of gaming network cards, today launched Killer Xeno, the company‘s next-generation voice chat-enabled network interface card for online gamers. The new product comes with more memory, an upgraded network processing unit (NPU), and integrated audio for hardware-accelerated voice-chat, all designed to bring gamers the ultimate online experience.

The Killer Xeno platform provides Bigfoot Networks‘ partners and customers the fastest time to market with a flexible product design for customizing, licensing and distributing Killer Xeno. Killer Xeno‘s voice-chat acceleration technology addresses the most requested gamer feature, and will enable the millions of online gamers worldwide who utilize these chat services to enjoy a "hiccup-free" voice experience while playing the latest generation of online games. Bigfoot, in providing voice chat, has partnered with companies supporting leading products such as TeamSpeak and Vivox as well as utilizing the popular open source application Mumble. Killer Xeno is also a flexible product design platform that enables customers, including Add-In-Board (AIB) vendors and PC OEMs, to license and differentiate Killer Xeno products for their markets. Bigfoot Networks also announced today that leading game systems developer Alienware, Dell‘s high-performance gaming brand, will be the first exclusive PC OEM to ship the Killer Xeno Pro. "

The worldwide online gaming market is rapidly growing, and with more gaming customers come more customer requests, demands and needs. Alienware works to stay ahead of the curve and Bigfoot Networks helps us do this," said Frank Azor, senior vice president and general manager, Alienware. "The Bigfoot Networks‘ Killer Xeno gives us the proven technology needed to guarantee customers‘ ultimate online gaming experience." Additionally, the company announced that EVGA Corporation, the leading-edge 3D graphics card and motherboard manufacturer, is Bigfoot‘s first exclusive third party AIB partner to license Killer Xeno to be distributed under the EVGA brand. "EVGA, from the beginning, has embraced intelligent innovation and leadership within our product philosophy," said Andrew Han, EVGA president and CEO. "By partnering with Bigfoot Networks, EVGA can now offer the Killer Xeno Pro to members of the VGA community. In particular, this new product will greatly improve the immersive experience and competitive edge for online gamers. Addressing our customers‘ real-time networking needs and empowering them with new products is made possible with Bigfoot‘s Killer headset Xeno technology." "Bigfoot Networks‘ products are designed to provide the best experience for today‘s new generation of real-time network-dependent applications such as online gaming, voice chat and file sharing," said Bigfoot Networks CEO Michael Howse. "

language differences aside, dwarves across all current MMORPGs (and pretty much across all their lore) do share a number of physical and mental similarities. Understanding some basic concepts about mythical dwarves are what these first links help with. Dwarf - Wikipedia Dwarf (Middle-earth) - Wikipedia Dwarves - The Encyclopedia of Arda Dwarf - The Dragonlance Nexus These next links give brief descriptions of dwarves as they appear in some of the current MMORPGs, allowing a better look at how similar and different they are in comparison. Race of Dwarves - Lord of the Rings Online Dwarves - World of Warcraft Dwarfs - Warhammer Online Dwarf - Dungeons & Dragons Online Khuzdul is the name given to the dwarven language created by Tolkien, most of what is known about it coming directly from his published books, such as The Silmarillion and The Lord of the Rings series.

The following links lead to web sites with detailed explanations of the history and composition of khuzdul, along with some handy word and phrase lists for those who just want to quickly bring some dwarf speech to their character. Khuzdul - the secret tongue of the dwarves An analysis of Dwarvish Next are a couple of web sites showing how gamers have taken khuzdul and integrated it into their games. Each also has a convenient word list at the ready, easily copied and pasted somewhere for quick printing. The Structure of Khazdul (Dwarven) - The World of Farland Dwarven Language - StormNexus Of course, you may create your very own dwarven speech and mannerisms, that‘s always a given. When and from where the current stereotypical Scottish accent was applied to dwarves is totally unknown, as far as my research has uncovered. Your dwarf does not have to be held to that concept, for the most part, but it‘s still a good idea to generally run with the predominant behaviors found within whatever game you‘re playing. The goal is, as always, to bring your character to life in game, and have it be much more than just a graphical representation of a bunch of mathematical formulas and computer code.

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