Hello and welcome to the ARS Gaming Community.

We are a group of gamers that originally formed ARSE (Alliance of Rebels, Republic, Separatists and Empire) back on Star Wars Battlefront on the PlayStation 2 in October 2004. Since the forum's inauguration, we have expanded into a full-flowing gaming community, with the ethos to play fair and play hard in a friendly gamers atmosphere.

As well as running our own internal game tournaments (ranging from the Star Wars Battlefront Online Galactic Conquest to the Forza 2 Championship) and take part in leagues on GameBattles, ConsoleGaming and XLeague, we also run events so that we can meet each other face-to-face rather than just shooting each others brains out each night online! These range from local meets (most recently, COMBOFEST, combining the joys of the new Warfighters experience with the atmosphere of a LANfest). Our inaugural COMBOFEST event was in September 2007, and we have another one being planned for later this year in the August Bank holiday weekend.

In 2007 we shortened our name to ARS, and we have now expanded to over 1500 members since 2004, with age ranges from 13 to 50 and nationalities stretching from the UK and Western Europe to across the pond in the USA; new members are joining every day to experience what we offer.

Although our roots lie back on the PlayStation 2 and games such as Star Wars Battlefront 1 & 2, SOCOM 2 & 3 and Battlefied 2: Modern Combat, we have evolved with the consoles themselves, now playing regularly on the XBOX 360 on games such as Rainbow 6 Vegas 2, Call of Duty 4 and Frontlines Fuel of War, and have a good PlayStation 3, Wii and PC following too.