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Cpt. Samir · Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject: XFire The Game Chat Program

Xfire is a freeware instant messenger with gamers as its target audience. Its uniqueness lies in its ability to detect what video game a particular contact is running and allowing IMs to be sent and received from inside the game in question, eliminating the need to minimize the game window. It is currently available for Microsoft Windows only. The company is based in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Xfire was originally invented by Garrett Blythe and Chris Kirmse in 2003 at a company formerly called Ultimate Arena. A few dozen employees have contributed to its success since then, especially CEO Mike Cassidy(former CEO of Direct Hit). Another notable founder of Ultimate Arena is Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion of Quake). Since its public release in 2004, it has attracted about 3 million (as of January 2006) users worldwide.
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Technology

By analyzing running processes Xfire can detect active games and send that information to Xfire clients with the current player as a friend. Besides that, for many games it can detect which server people are playing on, sometimes which level is running, and more. The program also supports instant joining for many games, which means the user can join their friend in the game in the same server with just one click. Xfire also allows users to send in-game messages to other players without joining the game as it is an independent application.

Xfire logs what games users are playing, how many hours they have played them, and saves other information (scores, etc.) from game servers. This information can turned into a PNG image by the server via PHP for every user to use as a signature.

Xfire currently supports over 500 games, 200+ of which support the instant-joining feature. These supported games are of many different genres and include such highly popular games as Call of Duty 2, Counter-Strike: Source, World of Warcraft, and Battlefield 2.

With version 1.43, released August 2005, Xfire, Inc. added a beta voice chat feature using Voice over IP technology, similar to, among others, TeamSpeak. Recently, Xfire, Inc. has also added a feature that allows users to take screenshots inside the game and then upload them to their online profiles.

To Download XFire click here: http://www.xfire.com/download

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