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Now it's DreamHack LAN/demoparty- weekend, Digital Man Live with Rush could be suitable to listen to.

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T H I S W E E K E N D DreamHack is in Skellefteå in northen part of Sweden. DreamHack also has a game qualifier in Berlin to DreamHack Winter in Jönköping. Watch the invitiation to DreamHack Winter below.



A lecture with internet grandfather and Google vice president Vint Cerf was held at Engineer Academy in Stockholm and linked to DreamHack in Skellefteå.

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T H E · L I G H T S · T U R N I N G · O F F at the opening of world's largest digital festival in the main D hall at 4 PM. New laser show this year, a gigant disco ball, the Northon tower, several rock concerts with Sonic Syndicate etc. Visit the Stockholm edition of DreamHack in August.

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T O · S T O C K H O L M · first time ever. World’s biggest LAN-party normaly located to Elmia in Jönköping, is on tour and will attending the Technical Museum in Stockholm in the Winter Vaccation week from 21 Februrary.

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T I M E · F O R · F U N · at the main stage in the main hall of Dreamhack Winter 2008 computer convention and Lanparty. Four days filled with computer entertainment, with elite-gaming tournaments, IT-ministern Åsa Torstensson talking, music, etc. surrounded by +10.000 computers.

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N E W S F L A S H · “At 08.00 the doors of Dreamhack Winter 2007 where opened. One hour later over 2.100 game hungry had checked in. The lines of people attending with computers and office chairs where long and it was not easy to reach the booked seats.” (29.11.07 Jonkoping/Sweden )

T H E · P A R T Y · I S · O N · with a terrafast internet connection pumping out 40 GB/s to the the end users. Cisco is representated with their fastest router the CRS-1, a device that is able to deliver 92 TB/s. The speed is 1.000 as fast as todays topspeed between two internetpoints between two ISP:s. This environment is working as a testbay, Mr D. Garpenstahl, chairman of Dreamhack board claims.

With the Cisco router frequently used on internet 1 Billion gamers could be able play at the same time online, says Mr S. Hannervall CEO Cisco Sweden.

40 GB/s out to the end users will make a user able to watch 10.000 videos at the same time, according to E. Hallberg at TeliaSonera.

To sum up: 1.000 times faster networking could give you at least 1.000 times more high quality fun and action.

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D R E A M H A C K · world’s biggest lan and demoparty is soon to be arranged in Jonkoping Sweden. From 29 November to 2 December 5000 attenders are comming to the event. Several eSports competition are taking place this year. The winners of the Demo competitions are this year awarded with prize money SEK 65.000 (EUR 6.500) for their efforts.

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L A N · P A R T I E S · and gaming cafes/centres are rock'n'roll culture in the 2000 I will claim. In Stockhom we have Norhen Europes biggest video gaming centre, called Inferno Online. And in Jonkoping we have the bi yearly Lanparty/gamefestival Dreamhack with 5.000 attenders.

I · C H A T T E D · with the founder of the Gaming companies RedPlanet and GameShout. He is developing the video game community business right now in the USA, with game radio station, podcasts, news center, forum, irc-chat etc. etc. The head quarters is located in Florida.

I · M A I L E D · a research friend in Umeå Sweden. He will soon publish a doctoral thesis on Video Games as Culture. He has worked on his research for several years and now he is soon finished with his thesis. Visit Stefan at Umea University culture and media department and humlab

T H E R E · W I L L · B E · a gaming conference in 23 november on "The Competente Gamer" in Stockholm City. You are all wellcome to attend www.nordicgameprogram.org is the host.

I · J U S T · W A N T · to shout out like an old bumbpersticker: “VARNING FÖR LANBARN!” (warning for lankids) Could be the title for a book on Lan-life and culture. Or this ”stay sane - play games”