Xfire Purchased, Team Leaving 161
phorce phed and several other readers sent news that a system notification was sent out this evening through the Xfire IM client, to wit: "Xfire was bought by new owners today. Most of the team that has built Xfire over the last six years is leaving. We enjoyed working for you for the last 127 releases and wish we could stay to create the next 127. Good bye, good luck, and game on. — The Xfire Team." According to Wikipedia, the new owner is 3D Realms.
Please Gaming Gods, No! (Score:4, Funny)
no buyout. (Score:5, Funny)
At 127 releases; they were on the verge of an 8 bit signed integer overflow. I suspect one of the managers panicked and convinced the CEO to sell before they had a chance to launch another and have to start over from scratch anyway.
Re:What is up with this site lately? (Score:1, Funny)
A picture of a giant bald ape?
Re:Why bother with seperate widgets? (Score:4, Funny)
Actually I'd never heard of it, and so had no idea at all, but thanks to the excellent summary I now have only almost no idea at all.
Re:no buyout. (Score:5, Funny)
Well played, sir. (Score:3, Funny)
Step 1: Edit Wikipedia article to make outrageous claim. /.
Step 2: Submit story about the news to
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit.
Discuss.
Re:Don't rely on wiki too much.. (Score:5, Funny)
You do realize who posted this story right? If you went by his house and scrawled "Aliens ate Sarah Palin using the new X75 fork from IBM" on his sidewalk in chalk it'd be here the next day as gospel.
Re:What is up with this site lately? (Score:2, Funny)
Hah! Pretty funny coming from a NEWSPAPER...
Re:no buyout. (Score:5, Funny)
Great subtle dry wit on IPv4/CIDR/NAT :)
Yeah . . . I can just imagine you as a kid.
"Hahaha. That joke's awesome! It's funny because the boy yelled 'Wolf!' but nobody believed him after lying about it so many times. Brilliant!" ;)
Re:What is up with this site lately? (Score:3, Funny)
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etc etc etc, they can keep this shit tbh