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Hello and Welcome This is your September edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials We don't know about you but for us August went by in the blink of an eye. With both Bellum and Wardogs playtest almost every weekend, we had dozens of people in the discord gaming all weeke

Hello and Welcome This is your July edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials What a busy past month we have had with events left right and centre, upcoming game launch announcements and more! To kick off what you may have missed we will cover our bread and butter events

Hello and Welcome This is your July edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials Looking back at June we had one major social game take place, with HTA and TVG going head to head in Squad in an action packed event that saw both hilarious gameplay and friendly insults. We unf

Hello and Welcome This is your June edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials Well Winter has finally come which means we can finally use our PC's for their actual purpose and that is to be a mini heater for our gaming rooms! The month of June was a quiet one for events,

The BigD Youtube Channel has hit a major milestone! The month of April has seen what years of hard work from hundreds of BigD members of the community can achieve. With the BigD Youtube just ticking over the 15k subscribers mark. We would like to share this achievement with you and take a moment to say thank you to all those who have helped shape the social media side of BigD over the years. With the goal for the social media channels to simply bring content from the community back into the

Hello and Welcome This is your May edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials This month was full of events and was actioned packed as always! Kicking off the events we have the incredible OC Scrim Night that ran on the 17th of April, filling a full server of RSVP'd comm

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."   lest we forget.

Hello and Welcome This is your April edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials The month of March was a quiet one in terms of events at BigD with no events running or to wrap up on. However if you have missed last months article you can go see all the events that were run

Hello and Welcome This is your February edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in the month just gone and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials Well as the year progress's so do our events and we have recently had two events wrap up in February. Kicking off the events just past, we say TVG run yet another fun and successful Halo ni

Hello and Welcome This is your January & February Edition edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed in th previous month and what's to come for the month ahead. This edition we have combined both January and February together in order to bring you all the updates that came about in 2025. We apologise for the lateness of this edition but it has been a busy time for the Media t

BigD Gaming is supported by dedicated admins who volunteer their own time to ensure the entire community has top-tier gaming servers for all to enjoy. It is only right for us to reward and recognize those admins who go above and beyond for the benefit of everyone. 📝 Admin of the Month Nomination 👤 Admin Name: Beef & Taz 🎮 Game/Area: DayZ & ARK and everything else they can get their hands on! ⭐Why are you nominating them? Why not? Between the two of them they handle the bulk of Day

Hello and Welcome This is your November/December edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials Merry Christmas everyone at BigD! As we wind down the year we bring you the final instalment of the year in which we will be putting all the info from November and December into this one Monthly news lett

BigD Gaming is supported by dedicated admins who volunteer their own time to ensure the entire community has top-level gaming servers for all to enjoy. It is only right for us to reward and recognise those admins who go above and beyond for the benefit of everyone. 📝 Admin of the Month Nomination 👤 Admin Name: Toren 🎮 Game/Area: HLL ⭐Why are you nominating them? Toren truly is a pillar of our community and a benchmark for what a great admin should be. He is consistently helpful, ensuring

BigD Gaming is supported by dedicated admins who volunteer their own time to ensure the entire community has top-level gaming servers for all to enjoy. It is only right for us to reward and recognise those admins who go above and beyond for the benefit of everyone. 📝 Admin of the Month Nomination 👤 Admin Name: Rhysjamo 🎮 Game/Area: Squad ⭐Why are you nominating them? Rhys has put in hard work this month, being by far our most active Admin, responding with little delay to tickets and in-

Hello and Welcome This is your November edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials In October BigD saw two major events that took place, one by our TVG clan lads and the other by our Squad Events team. Starting with the guys and girls over at TVG, the crew ran a Halloween SCP: Secret Labs Hallo

As you all know BigD Gaming is supported by dedicated admins who volunteer their own time to ensure the entire community has top-level gaming servers for all to enjoy every day. It is only right for us to reward and recognise those admins who go above and beyond for the benefit of everyone. For September 2025, the Community Manager team in consultation with our Senior Leaders wish to shoutout: @Ans1s Ans1s's nomination by the Hell Let Loose Senior Admins Ans1s has shown tireless dedication t

Hello and Welcome This is your October edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials Now September was a BIG ONE here at BigD so this article will not be one to miss! This past month we kicked off with the usual OC (Only Clans) monster size events for Hell Let Loose, these events are always fille

BigD Gaming is supported by dedicated admins who volunteer their own time to ensure the entire community has top-level gaming servers for all to enjoy. It is only right for us to reward and recognise those admins who go above and beyond for the benefit of everyone. For August 2025, the Community Manager team in consultation with our Senior Leaders wish to shoutout: @k3ithos Keith's nomination by the SQUAD Senior Admins Keith has quickly established himself as one of our most reliable and effe

Hello and Welcome This is your September edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials In August we saw a BigD Arma 3 Operation run by CannonFodder, called Operation Mad God. For those who are not familiar with what this mod is based off, it is loosely inspired from the movie "Mad God". A nightmare

Hello and Welcome This is your August edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials The month of July has been a steady and rather quiet month, but that's what comes with short days and cold nights! So here is what you may have missed whilst you were curled up in a ball, clinging to the warmth of y

Hello and Welcome This is your July edition of the BigD Gaming Monthly News Bulletin, where we're bringing you the latest updates from within the BigD Gaming Community, what you may have missed and what's to come for the month ahead. Monthly Wrap Up - Discord, Games and Socials June has had a couple of key standouts with the biggest ones being our discord passing of 10,000 members in March and 11,000 in June! Squad in the Months of May and June saw new style of events called "Open server Fog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McCDWYgVyps&t=1s "They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."   lest we forget.

We made it! Thank you all who activate our discord with great banter & meaningful content. BigD Gaming in its early days was built around the classic Forums website - still in the background for the memories: https://www.bigd.com.au/forums/ Then along came Discord in 2015 and it has fast established its place in the gaming world as the place to build and service communities. We officially snuck over 10,000 Members early morning of 2nd March but held off announcing with the major website u

We previously communicated on Friday that BigD Gaming was preparing to upgrade our website software and the impacts this would have on a number of our community members, admins & donators: https://www.bigd.com.au/news/community/website-software-upgrade-r40/ We can now confirm our website software upgrade has been completed successfully! Now is the time for those impacted to take action to ensure there is limited disruption to you. Logging In A change with the new software is you can no lon

The base software used for our website has had a major update come through, resulting in some third party addons currently in use, becoming unusable once we migrate across. We have been testing the new software and conducted several trial runs of migrating our website data with the aim to minimise the impacts & understand where processes will need to change. When is Migration Happening? Over the next week, we will be undertaking the upgrade to the new website software, pending

Welcome to 2025 - we want more people to experience the handy perk of Server Queue Skip, so BigD Gaming is giving everyone the opportunity to take up $1 Server Queue Skip for 15 days. Head over to: https://www.bigd.com.au/subscriptions/ to signup   For when your $1 donation offer expires, you have the following options to continue receiving Server Queue Skip: - Donate to BigD Gaming - by continuing on with the usual donation subscription, Server Queue Skip will remain in effe

What a year 2024 has been at BigD Gaming! We have seen our media channels thrive, our Discord grow, and expansions in games across almost every genre. 2024 was packed with excitement and amazing people. So let’s look back at 2024 and relive the year that was at BigD Gaming.   Our Discord The BigD Discord at the start of 2024 was 6,700 strong! Over the course of the year, we have seen massive growth, and as the year ends, we now boast a staggering 9,100+ members! This influx o

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."   lest we forget.

Autumn is on the way which means only One thing - the Footy is back on!   No matter if you're an AFL or NRL fan, BigD has you covered in 2024 with Footy Tipping launching for our community covering BOTH codes! The Tipping competition is open to register from today - signup fast as the Top 3 of each footy code will receive prizes at the conclusion of the regular season.   Signup Link: https://www.footytips.com.au/comps/BigD_Footy_Tipping?p=clickBOOM   Prizes wil

BigD Gaming is thrilled to promote our very own @Re-Purpose - our top hacker hunter on our Hell Let Loose servers' journey to be selected for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games!   @Re-Purposeis a talented shooter, currently holding the 2023 Commonwealth Title in ISSF Skeet, and having been a member of the Shooting Australia National Squad for the past few years.   Join us by visiting https://asf.org.au/projects/brittany-melbourne/training--travel-for-paris-selection to contribute to the 

As we bid farewell to 2023, we want to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every member who makes our gaming community truly extraordinary. This year has been marked by incredible achievements and exciting developments: SQUAD Server Revival: Our SQUAD server has been reborn, thanks to a dedicated admin team. Dive into the action here. Hell Let Loose Excellence: Hell Let Loose continues to thrive as a community mainstay. We've added some technical magic to e

Hello BigD Community!  Today we are going to be sharing with you everything to do with BigD Media. We will be sharing where it all began, who is behind the helm and what the rest of 2023 loos like for us in the media team. Where It All Began:   Caste your mind way back to April 28th 2014, BigD Youtube launched it's very first video with the launch of its official trailer. This was the era when BigD hosted games such as Arma 2, Arma 3, Project Reality and DayZ. This was a time when BigD was

"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them."   lest we forget.

BigD Gaming in the past few days has successfully undertaken a change of core software that powers our website, along with changing to our short url, BigD.com.au Your website account has been imported across, which is good news as it means you can login with the same username/email & password as before. Unfortunately if you had Server Queue Skip (whitelisting) setup as an affiliated clan member or a donator, your steam and discord profiles did not import across due to the nature of how the