Every so often a game comes along that changes the gaming landscape. It changes how people view video games, how they play them and it also affects the companies creating them – when the bar gets raised they need to pay attention to the change in the gaming current around the world. Halo was just such a game and to be fair nobody expected Microsoft to pull off the coup they did by releasing the original Xbox with Halo as their lead title – after all Microsoft made Operating Systems and Office software and that was it right?

Halo changed all that and created the type of avid fan base that had never really been seen before. The Quake series of games had enjoyed a very strong following for several years but the following that Halo developed went above and beyond that – the Master Chief was going to become more iconic than anyone in Bungie probably ever thought possible. The range of Halo toys and even costumes tells you how popular this game is with the public….I don’t ever remember a Quake costume do you? (Btw I really, really want the Deluxe Master Chief costume. Really).

So that’s why the original HaloBB forum was setup in the first place – to promote the original Halo game and of course Halo 2, Halo 3: ODST, Halo Reach and the upcoming Halo 4 game too of course. We aimed to be a home for everything Halo for fans from all over the world and to grow a community that loved “Noble Team” and Spartans as much as the rest of us. We wanted to keep Halo as fresh as the very first time you played it way back in the early days of the original Xbox.

We also wanted to customize the phpBB forum script as much as we could to provide as user friendly an experience as possible for our forum members and of course to have the best phpBB tweaks that were out there so we used the phpbbhacks website a whole lot over the years to make this forum the place that it was.