What is Playfire?
'''Playfire''' was a website for [[video game players]] to help gaming networking. Playfire helped users to track their in-game awards, achievements and [[gameplay]]. Kieran O'Neill, Sophia Hayes & Ben Phillips opened the company in December 2007. Playfire was the first website to release a [[PlayStation]] gamercard. It attracted a big number of gamers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Alexander|first=Leigh|date=July 8, 2008|title=Playfire Launches PS3 Trophies Gamercard Service|url=http://kotaku.com/5022059/playfire-launches-ps3-trophies-gamercard-service|publisher=Kotaku.com|access-date=October 6, 2021|archive-date=March 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314111911/http://kotaku.com/5022059/playfire-launches-ps3-trophies-gamercard-service|url-status=dead}}</ref> The site brought in an automatic tracking of [[Xbox 360]], [[PlayStation 3]] and [[PC gameplay]] in March 2011.<ref>{{cite web|author=Tom Cheshire|date=August 17, 2011|title=Playfire: The social network dedicated to gamers|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/start/network-gamer|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111201172718/http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/09/start/network-gamer|archivedate=December 1, 2011|work=Wired}}</ref> == Investment == Playfire got £1.3m in funding from investors such as [[Niklas Zennström]] (the founder of [[Skype]]), [[Michael Birch]] (the founder of [[Bebo]]), Chris Deering (the former Chairman of [[SCE]]), William Reeve (the founder of [[LOVEFiLM]]) and others.<ref>{{cite web|last=O'Hear|first=Steve|date=November 10, 2009|title=Confirmed: Gamer social network Playfire secures $2.1m Series A|url=https://techcrunch.com/2009/11/10/confirmed-gamer-social-network-playfire-secures-2-1m-series-a/|publisher=Techcrunch}}</ref> == History == The idea for Playfire came from watching the gamers adding information about themselves such as their PSN ID, recently played games, and other things in their signatures under every forum post. In September 2011 Playfire united with GameSpo