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XFIRE™ IS ON FIRE - CROSSES TWO MILLION

REGISTERED USER MARK

New Features Added Include Voice Chat

Menlo Park, CA – September 19, 2005 – Xfire, Inc., the world’s fastest growing online gaming platform and community, today announced that its free online service has exceeded two million registered users. Xfire continues to develop innovative features for multiplayer gaming, including the recent beta launch of one-to-one voice chat.

“We launched Xfire a little over a year and a half ago, and we have watched the community grow at an exponential rate,” said Mike Cassidy, CEO of Xfire, Inc.  “It took us one year to reach our first million users and eight months to reach our second million.  We set out to make online multiplayer gaming easier and more fun, and we are thrilled with the growth of the Xfire community.”

Xfire has simplified gaming with a compelling set of features including:

·        Friend List for Gamers – Xfire users can see when their gamer friends are online and what games they are currently playing.

·        One-Click Join – Xfire users can see what games their friends are playing and use the one-click join feature to play alongside their friends instantly.

·        Xfire In-Game Messaging – Xfire users can send and receive instant messages while playing in many games without having to minimize or Alt-Tab out of the game.

·        Stats Tracking – Through automatically updated player profiles, Xfire displays what games users are playing and how many hours they have played them.

·        File Downloads – Xfire’s file download system deliver demos, patches, trailers, and other files to users via a closed peer-to-peer distribution system. Xfire can detect when a user is playing a game and automatically pause the download until the user exits the game. Xfire also offers users the ability to sign up for channels so they can get files delivered automatically based on their interests.

·        Voice Chat – Xfire allows gamers to talk to each other over a private peer-to-peer chat network.

To download Xfire for free please visit www.xfire.com. 

About Xfire

Xfire, Inc. is the fastest growing online gaming platform and community in the world.  Xfire helps gamers play with their friends much more easily. Xfire is also a server browser, IM, and file download system designed just for gamers. Xfire has over two million members in over 100 countries.  Company management includes Mike Cassidy (former CEO of Direct Hit), Chris Kirmse (creator of Meridian 59), Adam Boyden, and Dennis "Thresh" Fong (World Champion of Quake).  Xfire is funded by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, NEA, and Granite Global Ventures. Xfire is supported by advertisers and marketers trying to reach the 18-34 male audience.