PLAYXPERT have announced the beta version of what it claims is the most significant in-game toolset available for Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) gamers.

The PLAYXPERT, which is available for preview at the Game Developer Conference, enables gamers to manage and stay connected to their virtual communities, quickly access necessary tools like Thottbot and Allakhazam, enjoy an optimized community experience via integrated community management tools, and use community-developed "widgets" extending the behaviour of the PLAYXPERT … and all while in game!

This all means that gamers can send IM's to any friend across any chat network (AIM, MSN, Yahoo or XFire), browse the net, monitor hardware stats (temp, process list, RAM, etc.), control music players like WinAmp or iTunes to listen to music, and manage all community aspects of their clan.

The time saver of the PLAYXPERT is in reducing time spent swapping between browsers, searches, and the game client, allowing the player to enjoy the gaming experience rather than wasting time juggling disparate systems.

“Gamers are a diverse global community who place a priority on game quality and their overall experience while in-game. We created the PLAYXPERT to fill a significant need that exists today, and we believe we executed very nicely against that need”, said Charles Manning, CEO of PLAYXPERT.

“PLAYXPERT enriches gaming experience by empowering players to do more while in-game, enabling them to visualize and leverage their rich social fabric that ties them together with other gamers across games and across clans or guilds, and finally by providing a general purpose overlay architecture so that anyone can build widgets that gamers can use. Building a widget can take 30 minutes.”

“We’ve made it possible to have a community of developers build widgets for gamers without having to deal with the significant challenges of in-game overlay engineering. Our Patent-Pending technology brings overlay to the masses and brings massive choice of tools to the game players so they can play like an expert”, Manning summed up.

“PLAYXPERT and Affinity Media are both committed to providing gamers with innovative tools and content that improve their game play”, said John Maffei, Senior Vice President of Affinity Media.

“We are excited to offer our content from Thottbot, and soon Allakhazam, through PLAYXPERT’s in-game tools.”

>> Link - Official Site/PLAYXPERT