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My brother is setting up a LAN gaming center with his partner, and they've called on me to setup the network. Since most(all) of my experience is with 'regular' networks, I thought I'd bounce the idea ...

The mid-2000s were incredible for local area network (LAN) gaming experiences. We had the absolute magic that was Halo 2, which essentially kicked everything off with excellent local multiplayer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The best gaming keyboards are mechanical ones, without a shadow of a doubt. But mechanical keyboards can feel cumbersome and clunky, sometimes even the compact ones. In other words, they might not be ...

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“I guess I am thinking a lot about the early 2000s lately, like a lot of people, I think, in their 30s.” That’s one of the first things writer, game designer, and podcaster Merritt K said to me in ...

A cohort of gaming veterans are creating a dedicated gaming and esports network that puts the focus on professional streaming celebrities — a channel called VENN. VENN, which stands for Video game ...