City Of Heroes: Xfire Worth Xamining

Says Thresh:

We just released a new version of Xfire (http://www.xfire.com) with features geared specifically towards MMORPG players. Xfire is essentially like Xbox Live for the PC and has a feature like COH's "Global Chat" that works across many games, including COH. Here are some of its features:

Buddy Tracker If you're someone who has a lot of gaming friends or guildmates and have a hard time keeping track of all of them, this will definitely help you. Xfire shows you when your friends are online, what games they're playing, and where they're playing. Your status will automatically change as soon as you start playing a game. SCREENSHOT

In-game / Cross-game messaging Tired of having to minimize the game (ALT-TAB) to receive instant messages or having your game crash because you accidentally left AIM on? With Xfire, you can actually send and receive IMs from within the game to friends who aren't on the same server, in the game, or who are in an entirely different game! Xfire supports hundreds of games - so for the first time, you'll be able to IM with your friends who are playing Counter-strike while you're playing COH - and you don't even have to leave the game.

Display your real-time gaming status on any website With Xfire mini-profiles, you can display your real-time gaming status on any web page. This means you could create a page on your guild website that lists the real-time status (online/offline/in a game) of every guild member without you having to do any work! SCREENSHOT

To learn more about Xfire, take the QUICK TOUR.

Oh, and the best part of Xfire?... It's free! We have one tiny ad in the client and have absolutely no pop-ups, spyware, and adware whatsoever. (Almost a million Xfire users can attest to this.) You can also read about Xfire in the Jan. 2005 issues of CGW (on p. 38 "Caught in the Xfire") and PC Gamer (back cover story titled "You've been Xfired.")

Please help us spread the word. You can download Xfire at: http://www.xfire.com. If you have any questions or suggestions on how to improve Xfire, we'd love to hear it!

Cheers,
Dennis "Thresh" Fong
Chief Gaming Officer, Xfire
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