XFIRE™ LAUNCHES AT DEMO 2004: SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATION DESIGNED
SPECIFIC
New Free Service Lets Gamers
Track, Alert, and Connect Easily with Friends Online
SCOTTSDALE, AZ (DEMO 2004) – February
16, 2004 – Ultimate Arena, Inc., the leading tournament platform for
multiplayer online gamers, today announced the release of Xfire™, a free
service that lets gamers track, alert, and connect easily with friends online. Xfire automatically tracks when and where
gamers’ friends are playing PC games online. With one click, gamers can
instantly join their friends’ games.
Xfire also supports in-game Instant
Messaging notification, which alerts friends playing online when a buddy is
ready to jump in.
Xfire users can:
- Join a game already running with one click
- Automatically be alerted when their friends are
playing online
- Find and play with friends of friends
- Inform friends that the user is interested in
playing a particular game
“A
majority of gamers prefer to play their favorite online games with friends, but
find it a pain to organize,” said
“I’m a gamer myself and I
love everything Xfire allows me to do,” said
Xfire’s user-friendly
interface lets gamers know when, where, and what game their friends are playing
at any time. Xfire supports numerous server and non-server based First Person
Shooter, Real Time Strategy, and Role Playing games. Xfire is a free service supported by “Message
of the Day” sponsors.
Games supported by Xfire
currently include: America’s Army, Battlefield 1942, Counter-Strike, EverQuest, Halo, Lineage, Quake III, Starcraft, Unreal Tournament
2003, Warcraft III, Call of Duty, Final Fantasy XI,
and over 50 more.
To download the free version of Xfire please visit www.xfire.com.
About Ultimate Arena
Ultimate Arena was founded by
Max Woon, Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion of Quake and Doom),
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