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Texas technology Bigfoot Networks, which is planning to market a hardware PC card which is intended to reduce in-game lag for video games, has announced it has achieved $4 Million in Series A financing from Venio Capital Partners.
The company is a start-up company with roots from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and was formed by a team of Executive MBA students to improve the performance of online video games.
According to the firm, it will bring to market the world’s first Gaming Network Accelerator card, which will allow online gamers to play their favorite games with less lag. The company explained: "Lag is the number one problem in online video games today, and Bigfoot Networks is the only company in the world whose sole mission is to fight lag", but gave no specific technical explanation about how it intends to do this.
"Bigfoot Networks products will infuse online gaming with blazing speed, making them a ton more fun," says Harlan Beverly, inventor, co-Founder, and CEO of the company. "We are to online games what 3D video cards are to graphics: essential. Eventually, we plan to completely eliminate the dreaded lag monster."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8401
highly skeptical about whether or not it can be successful to the point of other must have add on cards like graphic cards and sounds cards etc ...still it would be great to play games lag free ..but would that seperate the haves from the have nots?
The company is a start-up company with roots from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, and was formed by a team of Executive MBA students to improve the performance of online video games.
According to the firm, it will bring to market the world’s first Gaming Network Accelerator card, which will allow online gamers to play their favorite games with less lag. The company explained: "Lag is the number one problem in online video games today, and Bigfoot Networks is the only company in the world whose sole mission is to fight lag", but gave no specific technical explanation about how it intends to do this.
"Bigfoot Networks products will infuse online gaming with blazing speed, making them a ton more fun," says Harlan Beverly, inventor, co-Founder, and CEO of the company. "We are to online games what 3D video cards are to graphics: essential. Eventually, we plan to completely eliminate the dreaded lag monster."
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8401
highly skeptical about whether or not it can be successful to the point of other must have add on cards like graphic cards and sounds cards etc ...still it would be great to play games lag free ..but would that seperate the haves from the have nots?
