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In University, The Party Never Stops — For LAN

10:00AM Owen Good | Last week, more than a million users flooded Xbox Live to play Modern Warfare 2. Here’s something just as impressive: In January, nearly 300 gamers will meet in person to play a game released in 2000. More »
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Sydney’s Biggest Gaming LAN Finds New Home

1:00PM Tracey Lien | LAN party enthusiasts will be relieved to hear that after an initial gloomy forecast over the fate of Sydney’s largest LAN event, the Sydney Gamers’ League (SGL) has found a new owner and will reopen its doors to local gamers. More »
Culture

StarCraft II LAN Petition Hits 100K

9:00AM Owen Good | The petition to get offline network play added back in to Starcraft II has hit 100,000 signatures. Doesn’t mean Blizzard will shift away from funneling everyone into Battle.Net. But six figures is a credible number. More »
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And The StarCraft II LAN Petitioning Commences

10:00AM Mike Fahey | Angered by news that Blizzard has decided to leave LAN multiplayer out of StarCraft II, fans are doing what fans have done in such situations since the dawn of time – signing a letter. More »
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No LAN Play For Starcraft II

12:30PM Luke Plunkett | One of the reasons Starcraft is still such a big hit at LAN parties is that, like most “older” PC titles, it supports multiplayer over a local network. Starcraft II will do no such thing. More »
Culture

Malaysian Kids Set New LAN Party World Record

2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Last year, 203 attendees at Nvidia’s Nvision ‘08 set an official Guinness world record for the world’s longest LAN party, clocking up 36 hours of non-stop gaming. That record has now been broken. More »

Use Your Windows Mobile Cell Phone To Host a LAN party

4:00AM Flynn De Marco | Let’s face it, not everyone on the planet has access to high speed internet. Some people living out in remote areas just can’t get the kinds of service us fancy, city dwelling folk do. Such was the problem for D15AV0W3D over at The Hushed Casket. After exhausting every available resource to get a high speed connection, he thought he was doomed to dial-up for the rest of his life, never being able to catch up with our rapidly changing modern world. But, with some ingenuity and the help of a Samsung i607 Blackjack phone with AT&T’s Edge connection he was able to accomplish the seemingly impossible. After some trial and error, he was eventually able to host a Halloween Halo 3 LAN party at his house with ten Xbox 360s all run through his cell phone’s internet connection. I don’t pretend to understand all the technical aspects of this amazing feat, so if you wish to learn more, go check out D15AV0W3D’s explanation with a little how to guide so you can do this yourself. Ah, the marvels of the modern age… HowTo: Play on XBOX Live thru your Windows Mobile cell phone [The Hushed Casket] More »