Steam Releases their XFire Killer
Steam has been a growing community of people with more and more people using it, and they actually like using it. They have had their application launcher and game download service for quite some time now, but now they have released Steam Community. This is their new platform that you can compare to XFire where you have an application that keeps track of all of your games and your friends. Not only do you launch Steam Powered games from the game list, but you can also add 3rd party games. Steam keeps track of those records also.
One might wonder what exactly is different between XFire and Steam Community. Basically XFire has the application launcher, buddy list, instant messaging, and stats tracking. Steam takes all of those things that made XFire so popular and added onto it. They have their store where you can instantly buy and download a game that you might not find in stores, or don’t want to drive out to a store. It has full support for separate mod installations, and a few other features that you might find in your experience using it.
It’s totally worth the try, and you might find yourself making the switch over.