The Hard Corps Gaming League began as a small group of gamers who all share a few things in common, namely our hardcore love of video games.  We still exist as that small group of gamers and have grown to be a close knit group of friends despite the fact that we are all from different places and walks of life.  We all met playing Gears of War on Xbox 360, and spent every night nearly for the better part of a year doing just that.  It was usually just the gang but if someone couldn't be online or had to leave early our games were always open to the public so that we could fill the space.  That's when things would get fun. We are a competitive bunch and play best as a team, so if there were four empty spaces we would most often dominate whoever was unlucky enough to join without their friends and have to work with strangers or those without mics or the occasional noob who wandered into the wrong room to try and get a feel for the game before he tried ranked matches.  We used to try to guess how many rounds in a row they would lose before they quit and went looking for an easier group to play in.  We got pretty good at it, too!  We always talked about forming a clan and trying to compete but we are all adults and have fulltime lives to keep up with (some more full than others) and never really got it off the ground.  Our nightly Gears of War sessions started to trail off as more games became available but we found ourselves playing together on those also for the most part.  That's where the idea for the website began to blossom in my head.

I am an average player, at best, by myself so it was obvious to me at least how much better I play when I am on a team that cooperates.  We not only watched each others backs on the "battlefield", we also shared strategies and tactics, news bits on games we had picked up, and even gave each other fair and accurate reviews on games we had played that the others hadn't.  I came to value these opinions and their information more than I did the large gaming sites I had been using for years.  Some, if not most, of those sites have either been bought up by magazines or stores to bolster their readerships or customers and in my opinion lost some of what brought them all those users to begin with.  Chiefly, the truth!!  I began to feel like I was reading an advertisement when checking reviews, and the previews sounded more like reviews so I quit using those sites.  That's when I decided to start my own site so that gamers could get their reviews from someone who isn't paid to give the one that the game company would benefit most from but more importantly the one that the reader would benefit most from.  I wanted to take everything that made our group great and try to bring that to everyone, and in the process make our group larger.  So now that you know our humble beginnings get started helping us make this the best damn site for video game news, reviews, tactics and strategies out there!!