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One Nation Under a LAN: Dreamhack 2008

By Kieron Gillen on June 18th, 2008.

It’s become a welcome fixture in my life. Occasionally Warhammer’s Paul Barnett gives me a call and has a rant about whatever’s on his mind, like a kind of personal twittering service. Yesterday he rang as he limped away from Summer Dreamhack 2008, the long-running Swedish LAN event. Over 10,000 gamers in the perpetual daylight of the far north, dragging beds and PCs to the middle of nowhere… to game. It sounded awesome, and some more details and videos follow…
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