Gameplanet
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| Gameplanet (NZ) Limited | |
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| Type of Company | Company |
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| Founded | 2002 |
| Founder | Simon Barton, Simon Garner |
| Headquarters | Freemans Bay, Auckland |
| Industry | Web Based |
| Products | Gameplanet.co.nz GPStore.co.nz GPForums.co.nz |
| Website | www.gameplanet.co.nz |
Formed in late 1999 and registered as a company in 2002, Gameplanet is one of New Zealand's premier gaming and internet communities. An online expansion of the Gameplanet video game store in greater Auckland. Gameplanet comprises of a main website offering reviews/previews of the latest games for both console and PC, servers for a variety of popular internet games such as Counter-Strike and Call of Duty.
The website has won numerous awards, including the 2006 Netguide People's Choice Award for best gaming site [1][2].
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[edit] Gameplanet forums
Located at www.gpforums.co.nz. As of Tuesday, August 1, 2006 it had a total 222,978 threads, 4,577,007 posts, 42,989 members.
The Gameplanet forums are made up of a large number of forums spanning a number of topics. While the main focus of the forums is on gaming, Open Discussion (Formerly Off Topic) is a popular place by gamers and non gamers alike. Open Discussion has a number of subforums including Cars, Bikes & Motorsport and Current Events, Politics and Philosophy.
Many of the Open Discussion members are known for being relatively personal and intimate with many members knowing or having "meat" (Gameplanet term for a GP Meet - named for the traditional barbeque) each other in real life. There have been numerous GP Meats across New Zealand.
Counter-Strike New Zealand. (CSNZ) and its sub-forums serve as the major base of organisation and communication for New Zealand Counter-Strike clan play, forming a large majority of the members and posts on Gameplanet.
[edit] Members of notable mention
"Sgt Molloy" - Was jailed for hate crimes involving an Auckland mosque. [3] [4].
[edit] Gameplanet in the media
A user started a thread encouraging users to guess who the celebrities involved in a Cocaine and Ectasy scandal were. Soon, members were posting the names of any celebrity they could think of- some of them, as it turns out, were right. This attracted media attention, as this was breaching name suppression on the said celebrities.[5][6]
On the advice of a lawyer, a user famously said "It's just like talking around a water cooler at the office". This quote was later used by the Dominion Post in a story on the drug scandal and also on TV3 on the current affairs programme Campbell Live, which showed footage of the forums' frontpage as an introductor segment of the show.
Also in early 2005, A quote from a user was read out on NZ Talkback Radio after an All Black beat up his wife. The line was, "yeah, and who knows how lippy that woman was.", which was wittily derived from the NZ film, Once Were Warriors.
