Roll your own game server

One of the coolest things you can do on your home network is set up your own game servers. Then you can invite only the people you want to be able to play onto your server, and set the parameters so the game plays the way you want it. You’ll be able to set it up to play locally or over the internet. Most game servers actually don’t require much processing power to run. You can run it on your main PC, or employ an older machine.

So what games servers can you set up? Quite a few, it turns out, and this month we thought we take a look at how to get