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 ...

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Once you are in control of one of these private networks, you will be able to manage things like the time of day in the game, the map layout, and who gets to play with you. Some popular examples of ...

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While Valheim can be played on your own, it's just a lot more fun to play with friends — or, sometimes, even total strangers. Many hands make light work, as the old adage goes, so it makes sense to ...

You can play Valheim solo if you choose, but there's a lot to be said for the co-op experience. The game supports up to ten people in multiplayer, and travelling to purgatory with a whole Viking clan ...

Halo 5: Guardians' Local Server app is a nice shoutout to the LAN-heritage of Halo, giving friends, family, and even businesses the opportunity to create their own low-latency multiplayer matches.

Palworld, the Pokémon-like survival crafting game, has a multiplayer component, but it can be finicky. There’s no PvP in the game, and while you can collaborate with your friends to build bigger bases ...

Ubisoft have a very special Christmas gift for you would-be multiplayer server engineers this year, as they've gone and made the server software for 2007 alt-history RTS World in Conflict open source.