Ladies and gentlemen (and not so gentle men too), I have the pleasure to announce that the next version of the Xfire program has entered into open beta testing.

The Xfire 1.116 beta does not bring many visible changes since this time the work has been directed to the foundation of the client: the skinning engine is undergoing a major overhaul.

If you are one of the people who prefer using other skins than the official Shadow one, then it would be greatly appreciated to get you to test the beta and find out if your skin still works the same it has been in previous versions.

I have seen that lately the little part of Xfire community that has been creating custom skins for the Xfire client has pretty much vanished. I hope these changes that have effect on the skinning system will make it closer and easier for users to make their own skins so that this valuable user contribution type gets back on its feet.

According to the 1.116 Beta Notes also the live broadcast feature has once again received improvements. What those improvements specifically are, that's not told and I don't know them either. Rest assured, the engineering team is working on things based on the bug reports from users having problems with the system.


As always, to get your hands on the beta, go to the Official Xfire Beta Testing Team page. If you haven't already, use your chance to also join to the team; it is an unlimited official team so membership in it does not count towards the 5 community limit and does not include hundreds of random people to your contact list.

Joonas