Version 1.0 is now available of the
Xfire server-browser/instant messenger client for gamers. The new release
adds a feature called "Cross-game messaging," that allows messages to be sent to
players who are already playing a game, and can even send messages from a player
within one game to a player within an entirely different game, with this example
offered: "So for the first time, a gamer playing Quake 3 could send messages to
a friend playing Everquest or to a friend playing Counter-Strike, and so on."