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Xfire Teams With Livestream To Broadcast Your PC Gameplay

Mike Fahey — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:00:00 MST

Now you can let people all over the world tell you how much you suck, as gaming community Xfire teams with live video company Livestream to create a live broadcast service for gamers.

The new service is aimed at every facet of the PC gaming community, from pro-teams that want to show off their skills to publishers that wish to show off their wares. Even you, the solo PC gamer, can allow the world to watch you play World of Warcraft, garnering helpful comments from the community via Livestream's chat functionality. Helpful tips like "should have presured the pally abit more" and "lalalalalala." Helpful!

"The partnership expands Xfire's offering to our vibrant community. It keeps our users involved, engaged and active. For Livestream, the partnership adds compelling gaming content to the linear and on-demand video content already available to millions of viewers and reinforces the power of the Livestream Platform," says Chris Kirmse, Xfire's General Manager. "We integrated Livestream's Platform within two weeks using their Platform APIs providing our users a 1-click solution to start a live broadcast."

You can visit Livestream's Xfire Gaming Network page right now to watch other people playing video games, or download Xfire and show the world your mad skills.

How To Show Off Your NXE Avatar Online

Mike Fahey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:20:00 MST

Kotakuite Nate sends us in a helpful tip for not only sharing our New Xbox Experience avatars online, but also putting them in odd situations, like being balanced on the head of an adorable bunny rabbit. All you need to do is take the URL "http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png", and replace GAMERTAG with...well, your gamertag. This gives you a lovely transparent PNG image, suitable for placing on top of other random things. Not only that, but you can do it with your friends' avatars as well, leading to endless forum hilarity in the near future. I can just taste it.

Post your 360 avatar! [Mac Forums - Thanks Nate!]

Sony :( at Microsoft Thinking About Folding@Home

Kim Phu — Mon, 21 May 2007 10:40:00 MDT

Emoticons really are a visual language, aren't they? Microsoft hasn't even gotten their mitts on the Folding@Home project (though they have hinted at having little daydreams about it), but Sony, forever the jealous type, is already whining about it. When Jack Tretton of SCEA was interviewed by GamePro, he had this to say about the rumor:

Would they be even having this conversation if we weren't doing it? I don't know. I would guess that the medical community would take help from anywhere they could get it, but the commentary that I heard is that Stanford isn't sure that [the Xbox 360's processing abilities] would help them very much, which is odd to me because if it helped at all, it seems like they would welcome it with open arms.
It's really ugly territory to get into, but let's take fighting a disease and see if we can get some credit for that. It's not a cool game to play one way or the other, so I don't want to even give the impression that that's our motivation, and I'd be very disappointed if they're looking for PR value or to try to suck off some of the goodwill that we're doing.

I'm not really allowed to swear here a lot, but this is the closest the definition of the word "bitching" I've ever heard. It's a charity! The more people get involved, the better, right?! It's not like Greenpeace goes around arguing with the Sierra Club about who should be saving the environment or how. They just do it because it's the right thing to do. Kim Phu

Sony Doesn't like Microsoft Joining Folding@Home for "PR" [Arts Technica]