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Gamers, and especially Pikas: you should know about Xfire. It is:

• A presence management tool, with indicators for when you’re gaming, including which game you are in, and which server you’re on,
• A chat client capable of working while a game is running, without requiring the player to leave the game,
• A chat room program, to facilitate game planning,
• An automatic patching tool for your games, and
• Most importantly, it gives the functionality of the Tribes 2 “Buddy List” that we all miss so much to all of our other games (as well as TeamSpeak, although our server, “[pf!]’s Secret Volcano Base”, kind of wrecks this, as it requires a password).
• It also seems to have a few other features that we’d find less useful, like its own voice chat capabilities, and a rather anaemic server browser utility. It also keeps stats and profiles, etc., blah blah blah…

Pedant and I tested some of this functionality out last night, and I was able to find him in a BF2 game immediately, and join right from the Xfire client. This, in itself, makes it worth the price of software (free) and registration (free). By all means, give it a shot!