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The humble LAN party – a lost art. We’ve come a long way since the status-quo of collaborative gaming involved lugging your PC over to your friend’s basement, hooking up a sea of ethernet cables, and ...

I'm just wondering if LAN gaming is more or less popular than it used to be. I know that there are organised competitions and leagues like the ones Fatal1ty takes part in, but for ordinary gamers - ...

It has been years since the last LAN parties were held and the shift to wireless connections changed the landscape significantly. However, NVIDIA wants to bring back this massive blast from the past ...

LAN-based game servers are also a popular alternative offering for conventional arcades, and an entire business is springing up around the "PC room" and "LAN arena" concepts. Multiplayer game boxes ...

From the age of lugging PCs and monitors to the same room, to recent years when laptops have been designed specially for PC gaming, linking computers up via a local area network has been a PC pastime ...