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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by HeckFeck on Friday September 22, 2023 @10:58AM (#37612907)
Xfire is something that died a sad death. Used it to chat with many people I met playing Star Wars Galaxies and Empire at War - think it was actually bundled with that one.

The profile pages and screenshot uploads were fun too.

Another online community lost to the sands of time, alas.

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Re:Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and th... by Arrath on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:28PM (#37620372)
Don't forget GameSpy. Many, many rounds of multiplayer C&C: Renegade played through that back in the day.
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