VIA to Define Next Generation Gaming Experience at
QuakeCon
VIA Audio Immersion to Complement Premium Performance
Chipsets and Mainboards in Driving Gaming Standards at North America's Greatest
LAN Event
Mesquite, Texas and Taipei, Taiwan, 26 July 2002 - VIA
Technologies, Inc, a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip
technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced Title Sponsorship of
QuakeCon 2002, the ultimate gaming convention being held at the Mesquite
Convention Center on August 15-18. Participants will get the chance to
experience the ultimate gaming hardware platforms, as well as a great end to
three days of gaming with an awesome party night brought to QuakeCon 2002 by
VIA.
Underlining the strength and breadth of the VIA Apollo
line of performance desktop chipsets, already well known to the hardcore PC
gaming community as the premier gamers' choice, VIA will put its leading edge
technology to the test with powerful demonstrations of its blisteringly-fast new
VIA P4PB 400 motherboard based on the unbeatable VIA Apollo P4X400 chipset. In a
new approach to enhancing the gaming experience, VIA will also show how the
stunning quality of true 24-bit surround sound raises gaming to a whole new
level of excitement and realism in a unique audio immersion room.
"We greatly appreciate the strong support given to VIA
by the gaming community," commented Richard Brown, director of marketing at VIA
Technologies, Inc. "QuakeCon is the number one global gaming event and we are
delighted excited to be a part of it."
"We are very excited to have VIA involved in this
event," said Todd Hollenshead, CEO of id Software. "We're well aware of how
important leading hardware is to gamers and having VIA on board is going to
bring the experience of QuakeCon and all there is to see and hear at this year's
event to a new level."
Audio Immersion - Discovering the Power of True 24-bit
PC Audio
VIA Audio boasts some of the highest quality audio
controllers on the market, delivering the most incredible sound through its true
24-bit resolution. Setting the standard in PC audio, VIA invites competitors to
experience a whole new world of 5.1/7.1 Surround Sound in the Audio Immersion
Room at the Mesquite Convention Center, and hear for themselves how quality
audio reproduction is bringing games to life and shaping the next generation of
the gaming experience. About QuakeCon QuakeCon began in 1996 as a LAN party
dedicated to fans of id Software's games, and has grown to include QUAKE®,
QUAKEII(tm), QUAKE III Arena, QUAKE
III: Team Arena(tm) and Return to Castle Wolfenstein(tm).
It was created by gamers to commune with online friends in real life, meet the
makers of the games they crave, talk shop with industry veterans and compete
with some of the best players in the world. The event enjoys continued success,
growing from a small gathering of 150 players in 1996 to more than 3,000 in
2001.
About id Software
id - Freud's primal part of the human psyche and one of
the hottest game shops on Earth - has been rocking the gaming world from
Mesquite, Texas, since 1991. As a renowned leader in the industry, id Software
forged such frenetic titles as Wolfenstein 3D®, DOOM®, DOOM II(tm), QUAKE® and
QUAKE II(tm). With intense graphics and mind-blowing action, id's games have
helped redefine the modern video game, continually setting industry standards
for technology and gameplay. And, in keeping with tradition, id Software has
amplified the world of adrenaline pumping 3-D gaming with the release of action
titles QUAKE III Arena(tm), QUAKE III: Team Arena(tm) and the executive
production of Return to Castle Wolfenstein(tm). id's advanced DOOM III Arena
engine is leading the next revolution in 3-D interactive games with both single
and multiplayer technology. Check out more about id Software at
www.idsoftware.com
