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XFIRE™ PUTS YOU IN CONTROL OF YOUR
ONLINE GAMING EXPERIENCE
New Free Service Lets Gamers
Track, Alert, and Connect Easily with Friends Online
SAN FRANCISCO, CA –
January 16,
2004 –
Ultimate Arena, Inc., the leading tournament platform for multiplayer online
gamers, today announced that
the
beta version of Xfire™
is available at
www.xfire.com.
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
“Most gamers prefer to play games with friends, but find
it a pain to organize,” said Mike Cassidy,
Chief Executive Officer of Ultimate Arena, Inc. “Xfire eliminates the
hassle by changing the online gaming experience from being game server-centered to
being player-centered. Xfire helps gamers track, alert, and connect to their friends playing
online.”
To
download the free beta version of Xfire please visit http://www.xfire.com.
About
Xfire
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.
Games
supported by Xfire currently include: “America’s Army: Operations,”
“Battlefield 1942,” “Counter-Strike,” “Dark Age of Camelot,” “Dark Age of
Camelot – Shrouded Isles,” “Diablo,” “Diablo II,” “Dungeon Siege,” “EverQuest,”
“Halo,” “Lineage,” “Medal of Honor Allied Assault,” “Meridian 59,” “Neverwinter
Nights,” “PlanetSide, “Quake,” “Quake III Arena,” “Starcraft,” “The Temple of
Elemental Evil,” “Unreal Tournament,” “Unreal Tournament 2003,” “Warcraft III,”
“Wolfenstein – Enemy Territory,” “XEvil,” “Call of Duty,” “Final Fantasy XI.,”
and more.
About
Ultimate Arena
Ultimate
Arena was founded by Max Woon, Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion
of Quake
and Doom),
Mike Cassidy (former CEO of Direct Hit), and David Lawee. Ultimate Arena, Inc.
is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson and is based in