Dispatch · Mar 28, 2026 · 8 min

The LAN party is back, and it's in the living room.

Why local-only multiplayer hits different at eleven years old.

By Sam Ottinger

This article is a stub in the demo build — Kids Academy publishes its full catalog at kids.ac. What appears here in production is the editor's long-form essay, footnoted and illustrated, set in Fraunces for screen reading and print.

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