Xbox Live and Xfire Team Up for Gaming Giveaway

By: César A. Berardini - " Cesar"
Oct. 7th, 2004 09:24 am


Microsoft announced today that Xbox Live and Xfire are teaming up to give Xbox Live and Xfire gamers a chance to win high-end prizes. Members of both Xbox Live and Xfire will be given the chance to win an extreme Xbox Live prize package that includes an Xbox, one year of free Xbox Live service, a library of Live-enabled games, a set of Spherex 5.1 surround sound speakers, an Xbox networking wireless-G adapter and a custom Plantronics Halo 2 headset.

Those same members can also register for a chance to win a high-performance Compaq X GX5000 series Gaming PC complete with 17” flat screen monitor. Registered Xbox Live and Xfire gamers who are over 17 years of age should visit Xbox Live for the official rules and, to register for the Xbox Live prize package, register at Xfire.

" We' ve admired how Xfire makes it easy for PC gamers to play online and how quickly they' ve built a great gamer community," said Julia Miller, director, Xbox Live. " We' re pleased that Xfire will be introducing their community to our service, and we think that a lot of their users will really enjoy playing online with Xbox Live."

Mike Cassidy, CEO of Xfire added, " We think Xbox Live is a terrific service, and many of our Xfire users are already Xbox Live gamers. We' re very excited about introducing Xbox Live gamers to Xfire for those times they want to connect to each other and play PC games."