Area served Worldwide Website gamebanana.com | Industry Internet Launched 2001 | |
Type of site Video game modding comminity Slogan(s) The Game Modding Community | ||
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GameBanana is a popular game modding website, allowing users to submit and/or access game News, Maps, Skins, Sprays, GUIs, Sounds, Tutorials, Articles, Contests, Forums, Scripts, Textures, etc. for several games including a focus on First-person shooter games.
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History
GameBanana has been through several name changes, going from CSCentral to CSBanana to FPSBanana and to it's current name. These name changes were made in order to expand support for more games on the site. The site's slogan is "The Game Modding Community - Since 2001".
Unlike many site's message boards, GameBanana's is custom built. The site's owner replaced the vBulletin system formerly in use with one of his own design. Users of the site (particularly forum or server regulars) are often called Bananites. Another curious phenomenon (though perhaps not unique to GB) is the continued involvement of people who no longer play the game to which the site is devoted. Numerous cases have been documented where someone who no longer plays the game continues to contribute to the site, some even refraining from anything CS related and only participating in off topic discussions and miscellaneous content.