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Xfire Reactivated
Posted 16th December 2006 at 3:24pm by M1ke, tagged as Games, Utilities | Commenting Closed

One thing I missed at University (other than the online games themselves) was the Xfire instant messenger. This program is similar to Windows Live Messenger, Google Talk, Skype et al in that you get a login and a friends list and can text and voice talk to those friends through the program. However the main feature is that it allows you to talk to them whilst they (or you) are playing a game, and should you both own the game (and it be an online game) you can click a button to automatically join the server they're currently residing on.

Aside to these main features it can also auto-download patches for your games, allow you to download mods, videos and other files through a bit-torrent style system with all other Xfire users, take screenshots in game and upload them to a profile and track the hours you spend on games and record them on your profile. It's totally free with only small adverts in the main interface to make them the money to keep the service running. You can create a mini-profile to display on forums, blogs and the like to show what game you're currently playing and the game you've played most in the week.

It really is an excellent program, one that is more appreciated as I've been without it for the past eleven weeks. Any gamers reading this should definately get it, install it and make sure it's running whenever they play (you can set it to start up with Windows if you would forget otherwise).

To lead out, here's my own mini-profile, which should look more interesting a few days from now:

• Link to Xfire

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