Turtle Beach announced the availability of the newest addition to its Ear Force line of gaming headsets–the Ear Force X1. These amplified headphones give serious gamers a competitive edge by combining Xbox Live chat and stereo game audio into an immersive sound experience. Featuring a wired configuration between the headphones and the game console, the integrated design overcomes the limitation of communicator headsets, which block game sound from one ear, and also eliminates voice chat interference caused by traditional headset microphones picking up sound from external speakers. Before the introduction of the Ear Force X1 and X2 headphones, Xbox gamers had to resort to hearing chat in one ear and mono game sound in the other. Now gamers can get all the audio they need to compete–every crash, explosion and footstep of their virtual worlds and trash talk from online competitors–while blocking out all outside distractions.