Google software engineer Kenton Varda has a pretty great house. Not because it’s all clean and new and rather large, but because it’s been built specifically with LAN parties in mind. More »
Over the weekend, Dreamhack Winter 2011 — the largest LAN party in the world — went down in Sweden. Here’s what it looked like. More »
The DreamHack festivals, held throughout the year in Sweden, are the world’s biggest LAN parties. How big is big? The one starting today, DreamHack Winter 2011, is the biggest of the lot, and should pull in over 12,000 people. More »
Enthusiasts of military-style first-person shooters are not well known for their progressive thoughts on the matter of gender. The organisers of a large LAN party in Texas, scheduled to celebrate the launch of Battlefield 3, have decided the best way to deal with any slurs hurled at female gamers is to simply forbid them from attending. More »
This weekend marks the third event in the new series of Sydney’s largest gaming competition, which despite increasing in frequency, has enjoyed record prizes and sponsorship. If you fancy your chances, head to Macquarie University this weekend to try your luck in of of the 15 competitions, or check out the world’s first NVIDIA 3D Surround Vision setup. More »
How dare 2K Games turn its back on the PC multiplayer community that made BioShock … oh … uh … that’s right. Well, they confirmed that BioShock 2 won’t support LAN gaming or dedicated servers anyway. More »
LAN parties on the go could be coming to Ford vehicles this year, the company announced at CES today. More »