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Posted by michael on from the bang-bang-you're-dead dept.

CaptTrips writes "C|Net has an interesting article on the growing wave of LAN parties. Michael Duarte best puts it when he says "being able to play as a team, talk with the people next to you -- it's just a whole different aspect than playing online. For me, it's just more fun to put a face with the name of the person you're playing with." I agree!" This is a good excuse for us to link to QuakeCon. GameSpy has extensive coverage of the con - they've got some interesting screenshots and previews up.

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  1. Sports by Tom7 · · Score: 5, Insightful


    > being able to play as a team, talk with the people next to you -- it's just a whole
    > different aspect than playing online. For me, it's just more fun to put a face with the
    > name of the person you're playing with.

    And before the advent of the internet, we had sports.

    1. Re:Sports by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      You may have had sports. Few of us future lanparty geeks ever had a prayer of actually playing in a real sporting event however. If we were naive enough to try out for the team that is. Well who's the star of the team now, huh buddy? Who's got the car full of girls now? Well, we're on the team now anyway.