CES Product Launches
If you didn’t have a chance to make it by the Creative booth at CES this year that’s cool — you can check out details on the audio announcements we made at the show right here.

Silence FTW!
Now you can blast your music, pop cans of Red Bull and rustle all the bags of Cheetos you want without transmitting the noise to your fellow gamers. Creative’s new Silencer Noise Suppression technology, found exclusively in the new Fatal1ty Pro Series Gaming Headset MkII and the Sound Blaster Arena USB Gaming Headset, obliterates ambient background noise to provide improved voice fidelity, so your teammates and allies will hear your voice more clearly than ever before possible in online gaming. Vanquish your enemies with the combined power of Silencer and X-Fi audio technologies. Your opponents won’t even know what hit them. The new line of gaming headsets will be available in spring from your favorite online stores.

Sound Blaster for iTunes
Got iTunes? Do you hate being forced to listen to your music on the crappy built-in laptop speaker? The new Sound Blaster for iTunes is the size of a thumb drive, connects to your PC or Mac via USB and instantly upgrades your computer to a premium wireless sound system that plays music in any room of your home. You even control it right from the iTunes interface — it’s as easy to use as iTunes itself. Look for Sound Blaster for iTunes this summer.

Additional gaming, music and digital entertainment products from Creative are available at www.creative.com
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Creative Joins with Complexity Gaming in North America and Dignitas in Europe
Creative’s ongoing collaboration with top eSports teams, Complexity Gaming in North America and Dignitas in Europe, strives to continuously push gaming to higher levels of exposure, professionalism and mainstream acceptance.

Complexity, America’s premier professional gaming organization, is working with Creative to optimize our industry leading audio products and ensure that hard core gamers are able to maintain a competitive edge. For more information on contests, promotions and giveaways of Creative’s new products check out www.compLexityGaming.com.

Dignitas continues to be a dominant force in the industry as Europe’s leading pro-gaming team. The team supports Creative at events worldwide to help spread the message of the importance of great audio in games. For more information check out http://www.team-dignitas.org/.
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Creative Sponsors iGames “Gamers Cup”
Creative actively supports iGames, North America’s leading game center organization, and is proud to sponsor this year’s Gamer’s Cup series. The Gamers Cup will be awarded to the LAN center that does the best job recruiting good teams for iGames Game Nights throughout the Game Night Season, ending in June. For more information or to find an iGames LAN center near you check out http://www.igames.org/.
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Optimize the performance of your Creative Sound Blaster audio solutions with downloads from www.creative.com/support

Driver Updates and Applications for Creative Audio Products
Check out the list of recent driver updates to get the most out of your Sound Blaster products.

Sound Blaster Audigy series Driver 02.18.0010
This download supports the following audio devices only:

* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy including Platinum and Platinum eX series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 including Platinum, Platinum eX, and Value series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS including Platinum and Platinum Pro series
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 4 Pro and Sound Blaster Audigy 4
* Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Notebook PCMCIA

Added Features or Enhancements:
* Supports Dolby® Digital Live
*To get the above mentioned feature you will need to purchase the Dolby Digital Live software pack.

Fixes:
* Restores missing Microphone option in Surround Mixer after installing driver 2.18.0001.

PCIe Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Pack 1.03.0002
Game Fixes:
For BioShock™
* Resolves OpenAL issues when you turn on Creative EAX® Audio in the game’s Audio Options page

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Series Driver 2.18.0008
Fixes:
* Resolves issue of audio popping when playing AC-3 Wave files or using Dolby Digital Live via the digital output on Windows Vista
* Resolves Audio Control Panel issue of incorrect X-Fi CMSS®-3D behavior while using Audio Creation Mode

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 / USB Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio Karaoke Driver Pack 1.01.0076
Fixes:
* Rectifies the output delay when using line-in/microphone monitoring

Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Go! Driver Pack 1.01.0081
The following applications are available in this download:
* Audio Control Panel
* Console Launcher
o Entertainment Mode
* Creative ALchemy

Windows 7 beta drivers have been released for the following products:
Audigy SE
PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Pro Series
PCI Express X-Fi Titanium
PCI Express X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio
PCI Express X-Fi Xtreme Audio
X-Fi Xtreme Audio
X-Fi Xtreme Audio Notebook
X-Fi Elite Pro
X-Fi Platinum Fatal1ty Champion Series
X-Fi Xtreme Gamer Fatal1ty Pro Series
X-Fi XtremeGamer
X-Fi Fatal1ty
X-Fi Platinum
X-Fi XtremeMusic
X-Fi Notebook
X-Fi Surround 5.1
X-Fi Go!
Sound Blaster Surround 5.1
Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External
Sound Blaster Connect
Sound Blaster MP3+