| 26th April 2002, London,
United Kingdom- Sensaura Limited has signed a third-party development tools agreement with
Nintendo of America, which enables Sensaura technology to support Nintendo GameCube
developers, allowing additional audio functionality to be included in games titles. Sensaura's new audio middleware product, GameCODA supports Nintendo GameCube
and makes it easy for games professionals to implement the same extended functionality and
high quality audio across all platforms, whilst fully optimising and supporting the
hardware.
We are delighted to be working with Nintendo, their support is critical in our
implementation of GameCODA which provides cost effective enhanced audio for all the major
console platforms, resulting in a reduced time to market, said Doug Balfour, VP Sensaura.
Contacts
Rebecca Woolley
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 worldwide. In
addition, Sensaura also provide audio middleware to the game developer market, supporting
all the major platforms including the Sony PlayStation®2, Microsoft Xbox and Nintendo
GameCube. 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, winning the MacRobert Award. The founding team members were awarded 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 Groups
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. |