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FATAL1TY GAMING GEAR™ PARTNERS UNLEASH NEW VIDEO PERIPHERALS AT E3 2009

Hardware Takes No Prisoners!  Creative Silencer Technology Hushes the Competition; Innovative Fusion-io PC Storage System Shakes Up Software Design/Development

June 2, 2009 – Los Angeles – Fatal1ty Gaming Gear™ in partnership with Creative and Fusion-io, will unveil the Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII gaming and the Fusion–io ioXtreme PC Storage System at E3, June 2-4, at the Los Angeles Convention Center in the South Hall at booth #2922. 

“Fatal1ty licensed partners are dedicated to introducing top quality products that enhance a digital lifestyle to which gaming is central,” said Steve Gould, CEO of Auravision, Master Licensor for Fatal1ty.  “These new products fit perfectly into the growing assortment of Fatal1ty Gaming Gear and enhance our reputation for high performance products.” 

The Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII combines with Creative Sound Blaster X-FI Titanium Fatal1ty sound cards to provide the best PC gaming audio experience on the market today.  Unlike other gaming headsets, the Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII is equipped with Creative’s proprietary Silencer™ technology.  Silencer technology utilizes two microphones in the headset – one on the boom mic and one on the ear cup.  The microphone on the ear cup captures and screens out background noise so voice through the boom mic can be heard with stunning clarity.  The Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset MkII js priced at US$99.99.

Designed and engineered by Creative, the Creative Fatal1ty Professional Series Gaming Headset provides outstanding comfort and performance. 

• Plush ear cups are shaped for sound isolation
• The lightweight, padded headband adjusts for a customized fit. 
• Features full spectrum (20Hz ~ 20kHz) 40mm neodymium drivers
• Oxygen-free copper cable and gold plated mini plugs   

From Fusion-io, the ioXtreme is a new type of PC storage that will super-charge high-end PCs and workstations and deliver the kind of performance experience once limited to the world’s fastest computers.  This ioXtreme allows a user to set their data storage area up as a paging/swap file system to effectively extend memory capacity up to 80GB.  New storage memory tier virtually eliminates application latency, impressively accelerating file access while dramatically improving PC and workstation performance.  It will fundamentally change the way software is designed and developed.  The ioXtreme will retail for $895. 

This new storage works in the following ways:

• Accelerates application I/O performance
• Can be used as a high-performance scratch space or swap file
• Supplements RAM capacity for content development applications, such as image and video editing, CAD/CAM and 3D design
• Can be utilized by content artists, as a high performance workspace for more responsive applications and faster load/save times for required data sets and data libraries

·         Is non-volatile flash storage that exceeds the performance of today’s fastest workstation-based solid- state drives

From OCZ Technology, another Fatal1ty Licensed Partner, the lineup of Fatal1ty RAM and PSUs will be discussed during Tech Talks with a focus on how these award winning products benefit the gaming experience and a digital lifestyle.

Fatal1ty and Fusion-io Join to Launch the ioXtreme at E3

Gaming and performance PC icon Johnathan Wendel touts
ioXtreme’s ability to take PC performance to a new level

LOS ANGELES – June 2, 2009 – Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, the world’s best known PC gamer, and Fusion-io join up at the Fatal1ty E3 booth to launch the ioXtreme, a solid state storage device for high-performance PCs and workstations using 64 bit operating systems. The ioXtreme eliminates application latency, delivering the kind of storage performance once limited to the world’s fastest supercomputers.

Drawing from Fusion-io’s industry-leading solid-state technologies, the ioXtreme is a PCI Express card that sits on the system bus filling the performance gap between RAM and disk drives. It adds 80 GB of non-volatile capacity, exponentially accelerating input and output, including file access, and improving application performance dramatically.

"The ioXtreme supercharges high-end PCs and workstations. I predict this technology will fundamentally change the way software is designed, allowing developers to create a new class of applications that seamlessly handle massive amounts of data," Fatal1ty said. “Imagine playing the most intense game, working on complex 3-D graphics, manipulating massive files, ripping multiple DVDs and installing a new application -- all simultaneously.  The technology is crazy and works at the speed I need.”

“Johnathan’s experience with high-end computing has given him a unique insight into the disruption our core technology brings to all levels of computing,” said Steve Wozniak, chief scientist of Fusion-io. “We look forward to working with an incredible young talent like him. The ioXtreme is a good example of how combining the wisdom of veterans, such as myself, with next generation expertise such as Johnathan’s, will take Fusion-io’s performance revolution into the future.”

Scheduled for release in July at a list price of $895, the ioXteme has been architected for prosumers and extreme PC users and is specifically designed for easy upgrades. Through future software releases, the ioXtreme will be able do more far more than application acceleration, including features like boot and transparent data migration. Fusion-io and Fatal1ty will be demonstrating the ioXtreme during E3 in booth #2922 South Hall. For more information about Fusion-io and the ioXtreme, visit www.fusionio.com.

About Fusion-io

About Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel

Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel became the world’s first full time professional video gamer in 1999 and since then has dominated competitions all over the world, winning an unprecedented 12 world titles in 5 different games.  His dedication to training and maintaining physical fitness has changed the stereotype of a video gamer and now defines the gaming lifestyle.  Fatal1ty’s quest for even better performance led to the creation of Fatal1ty branded and certified products that now represent the world’s leading gaming gear brand and are distributed globally. 

Video gaming is organic to a digital lifestyle and Fatal1ty, as the preeminent celebrity in the gaming space, has emerged as a digital lifestyle spokesman because his lifestyle utilizes those things that comprise it. With his expertise and growing celebrity, he is well on his way to becoming the voice for a new digital world.

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About Fatal1ty Gaming Gear

Fatal1ty Gaming Gear is manufactured under license by companies highly respected for quality products in their respective categories.  Distributed globally, Fatal1ty Gaming Gear is the product of choice for dedicated video gamers looking for the most out of their equipment in order to enjoy the maximum gaming experience.  Like Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, the man whose name has become synonymous with international gaming championships, Fatal1ty Gaming Gear’s slogan “Get the Gear Used by the Pros,” represents winning at the highest level.