The resurgence of LAN Parties. This week has been very eventful for me on the LAN front. We have partnered with WherestheLAN.com and will soon incorporate their feed of LANs across the US into our site here. LANGaming.Net now owns the old skool site LANLocator.com and will be starting the first maintained archives of the good ole days, meaning websites and forums if we can find them. And just in Virginia here, several LAN parties out of no where that are not our own.
Are LANs starting to come off the endangered list? It seems to be headed in that direction folks. Maybe it is because of the economy and people want cheap entertainment. That is why I started LAG with some friends in 2001. I was just laid off and the LAN party at my house was just too much. Maybe this has been building up with all the consoles gaming going on and people want to socialize in person again? It is hard to say. But I am happy that our site is here and active.
I really hope that some of the old skool sites like LANParty.com come back. And hopefully defunked LANs like EastCoastLAN or Fragstock will come back. The resurgence is on....time to support the cause! Support your local LAN and get out to the bigger events around the country.
BTW, a little LAN Event known as Quakecon 2009 will be starting registrations this Friday.
I know what it is....Starcraft and Diablo 3 talk has spurred interest in LAN Parties again. Guess what? A DIABLO 2 PATCH! These are pinnacle to old skool gaming and they are continuing to patch and ask for input from gamers. Blizzard rules.
One last blast from the past, check out the Goldeneye Source Beta 3. Very cool mod, props to the devs for this classic revival on the PC.
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