It started with two twelve-year-olds, one game, and a Battle.net connection in 1996. Three names and three decades later, the friendships, the standards and the purpose are still here. This is how a guild became a legacy.
From Diablo on Battle.net to today's cross-platform squads, one unbroken line.
Games come and go. The people, and how we treat each other, stay.
Our play has put gear in children's hospitals and backed mental wellness.
Monolith Gaming is a multi-game, cross-platform community that logged on in 1996 and never logged off. We're competitors, creators, leaders and friends on PC, Xbox and PlayStation.
What holds us together isn't one game or one platform. It's loyalty, leadership, competition and connection, passed down from the Battle.net days to every new member who joins.
Every name we've carried meant something. Scroll through the chapters that made us.
Chris and Patrick were twelve when they found Diablo and the brand-new world of online play on Battle.net. What started as two friends teaming up became a guild, then a culture built on friendship and leadership.
A rivalry with Dark Knights of Kalimdor sharpened us and later turned into collaboration. Even then, we held our members to a stricter standard of conduct than most. That standard never left.
In 2000, Patrick passed away. The community the two of them started could have ended there. Instead, Chris carried it forward, and everything that came after was built on that choice.
Read his tributeAs online play spread to consoles, so did we. Chris and long-time members formalized the community as Redacted Gaming and pushed onto Xbox Live and PlayStation Network.
Over the years that followed, squads formed around Destiny, Call of Duty, Battlefield and other major franchises. New games, new platforms, same people at the core.
Redacted Gaming formally committed to charity and outreach. We got behind Gamers Outreach, which puts gaming equipment in the hands of hospitalized children, and turned our streams and events into fundraising and awareness drives.
It changed what winning meant to us. A good night was no longer just a good scoreline.
After a vote by members and leadership, we became Monolith Gaming. The name was chosen to stand for strength, unity and permanence: something solid, something that stays.
“Gaming is at its best when it brings people together.”
Every era of this community was shaped by the people who showed up. The next one will be too.
Join the DiscordBefore there were rosters, rebrands or fundraisers, there were two twelve-year-olds staying up too late on Battle.net. Patrick was one of them.
We lost him in 2000. Chris kept the light on, and more than twenty-five years later it's still burning. Every member who has found a home here, every friendship and every dollar raised, traces back to what they started together.
The banner has changed. The reason hasn't.
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Three decades, four eras, three names and the same standard the whole way through. We don't chase trends. We build things meant to last, and we remember the people who built them.
Before rosters, rankings or results, we're people who look out for each other. Respect, inclusion and consistency are how this stays a place people come back to for years.
Our hobby has put gaming gear in children's hospitals and raised real money for children's health and mental wellness. Play means more when it gives something back.
LoyaltyWe show up for each other, in raids and in real life, for years at a time.
Since formally committing to charity work in 2015, this community has turned tournaments, streams and late-night sessions into support for kids who need it, including gaming equipment for children in hospital through Gamers Outreach.
Gamers OutreachGaming equipment for hospitalized children
Health & wellnessChildren's health and mental wellness causes
Fundraising & awarenessStreams, events and community drives
Thirty years of history, and the best part is still the people. Come find your squad.
