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We thought a brief history of the NTHellWorld gaming clans would be useful. It might not be told in a strictly accurate chronological timeline of events but concentrates more on telling the story like it was.
Xbox beginnings
The [NTHW] clan started in January 2003 playing Xbox games over Xbox Live. It was initially set up by Caspar, and contained only a handful of members including Tez (Matt D), Jarandco and MyBoomstick.
The clan's home was an infamous website called nthellworld.com, which is where the [NTHW] tag comes from and because of the popularity of this website, many more players joined the Xbox-only clan.
They played several games but Ghost Recon and Return To Castle Wolfenstein were the main ones enjoying a great summer of 2003. In January 2004 they marked their first anniversary with a feature in the Official UK Xbox Magazine!
The move to nthellworld.co.uk
The clan moved to nthellword.co.uk in June 2003 due to the imminent closure of .com where they found their familiar clan forums already set up by the admins. They carried on playing together until around Spring 2004. [NTHW] had become a very well known clan in the Xbox community but gradually the posts in the clan forums slowed and the Xbox division became somewhat idle.
The birth of the PC division
In February 2004, Caspar posted a thread on the forums after a few debates on whether to start a PC clan. The games were decided upon and the PC clan was born.
[NTHW] PC gamers initially played Medal Of Honor, Battlefield 1942, Call Of Duty and Counterstrike. After a while it became apparent that the popular games were Medal Of Honor and Counterstrike.
Cable Forum
Nthellword.co.uk evolved into Cable Forum. However, the clan decided to keep the [NTHW] tag because of what it stood for: having a good time and not necessarily being in it to win.
Xbox clan dies
Sadly, Caspar decided to pull the plug on the Xbox division in mid 2004 due to the forums being idle and nobody really playing any more.
Many of the xbox members had joined the PC clan which was going from strength to strength. The Counterstrike guys, led by S1lv3r, were concentrating on ladders and the Medal Of Honor players were having a good time. They had also formed a good relationship with a clan called [SR] or Social Retards.
Goodbye Counterstrike
Counterstrike was dropped by the PC Clan partly due to the amount of cheating that was going on in the game in general. It was replaced with UT2004 in late 2004 and while a few clanners started playing this, it never really caught on. Medal Of Honor, achieved dominance, and only finally fell out of favour with the current PC clanners with the launch of Call of Duty 4.
Xbox clan returns!
Very late in 2004, the Xbox clan was reformed. Initially the Xboxers indulged in Ghost Recon 2 and Halo 2. They kept a low profile though, concentrating so much on their consoles that we rarely heard from them!
The arrival of the Xbox 360 was clearly an awesome event for the clan.
PC clan breaks free
Spring 2006 saw the fledgling PC clan up sticks to their own dedicated website and forums hosted. They continued to evolve, with core games of Call of Duty: United Offensive, Medal of Honour: Spearhead and Battlefield 2. The clan was active most evenings, running their own dedicated servers.
XBox Clan Joins
Autumn 2006 sees the [NTHW] clan rejoined at the hip. The Xbox clan have relocated from Cable Forum to the nthwgaming.co.uk website. The unified site now provides a community for anyone into online gaming of whatever persuasion.
New computer servers
March 2008 saw NTHellWorld gaming invest in a new dedicated gaming server hosted with INX-gaming. This offered the clan a versatile managed platform on which to run a number of gameservers, together with support for our website. We also migrated our primary domain name to nthwgaming.co.uk.
Recent Developments
Regretably the xboxers proved to be rather fickle, and with too small a group of players rarely able to all agree on online time they wandered off into sunset. We wish them well, and hold a door open should there be interest for a console resurrection.
The PC clan continues unabashed. We've had our foray's into Call of Duty 5: World at War but this hasn't really cut the mustard. We've returned to Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, and are dabbling in custom servers and maps to retain our interest. The recent launch of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 has caused some stirring amongst members and resulted in our trialling a new server with Multiplay.
[NTHellWorld gaming will continue to develop. Anyone that wishes to join in the fun, please do post, or check us out in game. You'll get a warm welcome.
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