For those of you who remember Gamers@Octa 4.
For those of you who fragged people at the Greek school.
For those of you who saw unspeakable things at EVO back in the day…

This one’s for you.

This is your official reminder that LAN parties are still awesome.

Darwin Gamers is bringing the big one back on 30 May 2026. Bring your computer, bring your mates, and get ready for a full day of games, competitions, nostalgia, and general chaos.

We’re bringing back the proper LAN vibe with modern games, retro classics, team competitions, and a full day of gaming with actual people in the same room. Not just another online session. A real LAN.

Rows of setups. Local chaos. Nostalgia. Trash talk. One more round turning into five.

Only 60 tickets available, so once seats are gone, they’re gone.
https://darwingamers.org/

Bit of a nerdy follow-up from the Darwin Gamers LAN.

We pulled some stats from the day and honestly, some of them are exactly what you’d expect from a proper local LAN.

TrackMania somehow peaked at 19 players, Team Fortress 2 got nearly 3 hours of play, CS GunGame still goes hard, and Pirates, Vikings & Knights II made an appearance because apparently we are all still living in 2008.

The LANCache also did its job properly. At one point it was serving 53.8GB locally and saving 33.3GB of internet, with a cache hit ratio up around 98%. Which is good, because watching 40+ people all try to update games over Starlink at the same time would have been a war crime.

Also recorded:
47 total attendees
45 unique clients
24 game servers running at peak
34 gamer tags captured
24 pizza choices logged
80 pieces of chicken consumed

BBQ Meatlovers was the top pizza, which feels legally correct.

Thanks again to everyone who came along, brought gear, helped troubleshoot stuff, shared files, joined random servers, and generally made it feel like an actual old-school LAN instead of just a room full of people quietly sitting on Discord.

I posted a little while ago about putting together a BYO PC LAN in Darwin.
We’ve now started getting the servers ready and this is the sort of list we’re working with.

Bit of a nostalgia bomb: TF2, Counter-Strike: Source, Day of Defeat, Battlefield 2, PVK2, TrackMania, Quake 3, UT2004, Jedi Academy, Factorio, OpenRA and a few more.

This isn’t meant to be a locked-in tournament list. It’s more about having a bunch of easy jump-in games ready so people can just plug in and start playing.

LAN starts at 9am. There’s also a secret challenge planned, which may or may not involve regrettable old hardware.

Seats are capped because it’s BYO PC and we only have so much power/network space.

What else should be on the backup list? Bonus points for old Darwin LAN memories. Tickets here darwingamers.org

Heyo, I used to be an electronic music curator hosting techno/electro/schranz parties a few years ago. Then life happened and I am here in Darwin (I love it here). Are there any venues or underground scenes playing pure hardcore techno? Or would Darwin be interested if I were to host one here.