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Advanced audio middleware for game development

London, UK - March 12th 2002 - Sensaura Limited today announced the launch of GameCODA, the first true cross platform audio middleware solution, which enables game development studios to integrate specialist audio features seamlessly into their new titles. GameCODA will be launched at the Game Developers Conference, San Jose (USA) next week (21st March).   

GameCODA is a scalable and modular product that enables the incorporation of audio effects, such as, 3D sound, environmental reverb, streaming, pitch shifting and scalable voice channels. All these features are accessible at high and low levels, the level being determined by the developer. GameCODA is also fully compatible with leading middleware providers.

 “GameCODA signals a new era for the inclusion of audio into games” enthused Russell Shaw, Head of Sound and Music from Lionhead Studios. “Enabling our developers to include excellent audio effects, at high and low levels is a superb facility, we can cherry pick from the features to optimise our game quality. Of course the most important benefit is the reduction in development time, as a middleware solution, the hard work has already been done for us by specialist audio engineers.”  

GameCODA will be available for all of the major console platforms including Xbox™, PlayStation®2 and Nintendo GameCube™, as well as the PC. This cross platform functionality reduces development time significantly whilst ensuring developers have the same audio quality across all platforms. “

The functionality and scalability of the GameCODA product is extensive, and we are excited about the feedback we have received from testers of the early versions. Games using GameCODA will have universally excellent audio, across every platform, whilst reducing development time and costs,” said Peter Clare, CTO of Sensaura.

Notes to editors

Sensaura will be demonstrating GameCODA at the Hilton and Towers Hotel, San Jose, Suite 926 between the 21st March and 23rd March 2002.  

Contacts

Press Contact                           GameCODA Sales
Rebecca Woolley                                         sales@sensaura.com           
rwoolley@sensaura.com
Tel + 44 20 8848 6766
Fax + 44 20 8848 6760                    

About Sensaura

Sensaura Limited (http://www.sensaura.com/) is at the forefront of audio research, both in the PC and the consumer electronics market.   Presently holding technology licensing agreements with vendors such as Yamaha, ESS Technology, Analog Devices Inc., Crystal/Cirrus Logic and NVIDIA, licensees of Sensaura 3DPA technology control in excess of 60% of the PC audio chip market world-wide.  In addition, Sensaura also provide audio middleware to the game developer market, supporting all the major platforms including the Sony PlayStation and Microsoft Xbox. The Sensaura portfolio of intellectual property (IP) includes more than 55 world-wide patent filings. Sensaura's success was recently commended by the Royal Academy of Engineering where the founding team members were awarded with a gold medal presented by The Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace.  Sensaura retains strong links with its sister company, Central Research Laboratories Limited (CRL), EMI’s former research centre, of which it was previously a business unit.  Sensaura is a wholly owned subsidiary of the technology development and licensing company, Scipher plc.

About Scipher

 Scipher plc is the largest technology development and licensing company of its type in Europe. Scipher delivers value from intellectual property (IP) in two principal ways:

• It commercialises patent-protected products developed by its own R&D resources, through licensing or sale to high-growth markets around the world
• Using its extensive expertise in intellectual property management, it creates value from clients’ IP assets by providing a complete license revenue generating service.

Scipher's impressive portfolio of advanced technology products and know-how covers the markets for 3D Sound, Displays, Communications, Secure Identification, Sensors and Broadcast Monitoring. Almost two-thirds of Scipher’s revenues are earned outside the UK in 49 countries.

 Scipher is backed by more than 70 years in advanced R&D including developments of such historic importance as stereo recording, television broadcasting and the medical CT scanner, which won a Nobel Prize for its inventor. Scipher’s continuing tradition of technological achievement has been recognised most recently by the 2001 MacRobert Award, the highest UK accolade for innovation, awarded for Scipher’s outstanding 3D Sound technology.

Scipher is traded on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:SIP) and is a constituent of the TechMark 100 index.

Sensaura, the Sensaura double crescent logo, Sensaura3D, GameCoda and then GameCoda logo, Sensaura MultiDrive, Sensaura MacroFX, Sensaura EnvironmentFX and Sensaura ZoomFX are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Sensaura Limited or Central Research Laboratories Limited.  Sensaura Limited is a Scipher Company.All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.