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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 »
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Over the weekend, Dreamhack Winter 2011—the largest LAN party in the world—went down in Sweden. Here's what it looked like. More »
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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 »
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Enthusiasts of military-style first-person shooters are not well known for their progressive thoughts on the matter of gender. The organizers 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 »
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What's a good encore after winning two gold medals at the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games? For one of the world's most accomplished cross-country skiers, it's playing alongside his world champion counterpart in Counter Strike at Norway's largest LAN party. More »
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I suppose at some point this will cease to be news, but the franchises that made LAN gaming great continue to turn their back on it, providing a long slow obituary for the service. Command & Conquer is the latest. More »
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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 »
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LAN parties on the go could be coming to Ford vehicles this year, the company announced at CES today. More »
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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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Raven Alexis' nine-to-five is about having sex, in front of people, on camera. More »
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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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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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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 »
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It's hard work, playing Counter-Strike for 8 hours non-stop. Especially if you're only fueled only by Coke and sweets, and surrounded by blokes emitting bloke-gas. Imagine the smell after 8 hours, let alone a sleep-over, and these things sometimes go for entire weekends. More »
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Scene of the crime: McWhertor's favorite trendy Shibuya dance club, WOMB. Electronic Arts held a BattleField 2142 tourney complete with a, and I quote, "half time... pole dancer." Who won? Who cares?! Camouflage stripper! More »
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Illegal drugs, caffeine overdoses, and ridiculous load times: these are but a few of the terrors that await you in the Modern LAN Party. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=197253&view=rss&microfeed=true This clip showing the bouncers at a massive lan party dealing with a cheater has GOT to be staged, but it's still hilarious. The best part is when a pack of jackal-nerds descend on the crumpled computer and start picking it apart faster than you can say: "Slightly used 400w power supply." Brian Crecente More »
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