Week in gaming: Old pinball machines, Monkey Island, and StarCraft 2

Trouble keeping up on gaming news? Here are the top gaming stories from the last week, covering everything from StarCraft to pinball machines to the newly episodic Monkey Island.

The pillars of PC gaming: why StarCraft 2 LAN play matters: While it may not change the game’s bottom line, the exclusion of LAN play from StarCraft 2 bothers many old-school gamers. It’s an uncomfortable reminder of just how much the PC gaming world has changed.

Fixing the past: the art of collecting pinball machines:
Pinball is a dying art, but as it dies it has spawned a new art in its place: the art of collecting and restoring pinball machines. Ars talks to a veteran pinball machine collector and restorer about fixing (and playing) the past.

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