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Free VOIP hit EverQuest II and Star Wars Galaxies today. More »
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While the PSP might not be everyone's favorite gaming platform, it certainly is becoming a highly versatile little piece of technology. Even more so now that Sony has revealed aat their Games Convention press conference Go!Messenger, a wireless communications package that will bring text, voice, and video chat to the plucky handheld across Europe this January. Being delivered as a free firmware upgrade (along with a small application that needs to be downloaded to your memory stick), Go!Messenger will allow PSP owners to text chat via on screen keyboard right from the get go. Add a microphone and VOIP tech allows you to voice chat. Ad the Go!Cam to the mix and you'll be able to make video calls and record and send dirty fun video messages. The PSP just completely surpassed its price tag in terms of value as far as I am concerned. Let's hope Sony doesn't make us non-Euros wait too long for this nifty feature! More »
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British Telecom and Sony have announced plans to turn the PlayStation Portable into a mobile communications device. Using voice over IP technology in conjunction with the upcoming Go camera, PSP users will initially be able to ring up other PSP users as well as select BT phones via home-based or BT wireless hotspots throughout the UK, with plans to eventually expand the service to allow calls to computers, fixed phones, mobile phones, and anything else you can talk to someone else from a long way off on. More »
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Jajah, a VoIP company (think an ugly version of Skype), has now made their service PSP compatible. Mind you, the word used was compatible, not workable. No, "compatibility" with the PSP is defined by Jajah as a series of hoop-jumping that no one in their right mind would go through just to have a time delayed conversation, no matter how low the cost of free was. More »
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A couple months back, we posted about the Nintendo DS VoIP headset that would be launched in Japan on September 14th. Well, that's either yesterday or tomorrow, by my chronological reckoning. More »
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Well, this is rather nifty. At a recent retail product fair in Japan, Nintendo announced a VoIP headset for the DS and DS Lite. It's set to go on sale in Japan around September 14th. Price? Only about $10, surprisingly. It's designed to allow you to engage in more comfortable, lower volume smack talk with your Metroid Prime: Hunters or Pokemon buddies. More »
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There's giddy speculation that the Wiimote, announced at E3 to include a little speaker, will also have audio-in capabilities; will store a user phonebook/address book; and even be used as a VoIP phone. Oh boy! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=176443&view=rss&microfeed=true Telecommunications company Vivox provides voice over IP technology to video games. They are currently boasting that, thanks to them, you can make a call from within Second Life to any real-life telephone number. Wow! That's incredibly, amazingly...wait what now? You can make a plain old regular VoIP call, only it appears to be coming from an anthropomorphic raccoon or whatever your avatar is. And only to you, the person making the call. It's not like "ANTHROPOMORPHIC RACCOON" shows up on caller ID, or that your voice is translated into chittering. Wow. That's really pointless. Even for Second Life. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=166875&view=rss&microfeed=true Another function Nintendo rolled out with its WiFi network beside Metroid Prime Hunters is the long-requested voice chat for the DS. It comes in the form of an in-game lobby where you can chat with people whose friend code you have. It functions basically like a walkie-talkie, in its "click a button, then talk" functionality. That youc an only communicate with people whose friend code you have is a pretty good "safety feature" for potentially concerned parents. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=157938&view=rss&microfeed=true The Apple Underground highlights the fact that both Teamspeak and Ventrilo for the Mac have been out for a few weeks - but nobody noticed. Not that many Mac WoWers then? I wonder if there are any all-Mac guilds...you could have fun with the tabard if there were. More »
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