The Alienware Lounge at the Colorado Memorial Center on C.U. campus. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
Game in luxury with state of the art Dell software can be found at the University of Colorado, Boulder lounge on the first floor of the Colorado Memorial Center. The gaming lounge is open seven days a week.
The Alienware Lounge features custom designed chairs for long periods of sitting. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
The University of Colorado teamed up with Alienware, a hardware subsidiary brand of Dell in 2023 to build the second collegiate facility in the nation. According to the University, the 1,275-square-foot space inside the UMC was renovated with a $1.2 million donation from Dell Technologies and Intel.
The Alienware Lounge offers numerous games and open seating for up to one hour per session. Watch the Youtube video for a view of the facility. https://youtu.be/Dpi8Z01Gqcg (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
The luxury Alienware Lounge has 19 gaming desktops, three gaming laptops, and a console area that can comfortably seat up to 4 gamers. C.U. students receive 10 free days passes on their first visit.
Adam Pallas, is the senior coordinator for gaming programs at C.U. Boulder. (Melodie Miller / Photographer).
Building a community at Alienware is one goal of the Center for Student Involvement at C.U. “I am full time. I am part of our Center for Student Involvement, which is where our gaming lounge is housed,” Senior Coordinator for Gaming Programs, Adam Pallas said. “I was brought on to the University in August 2023, prior to the opening of the gaming lounge, and I’ve been with it since then.”
UCM Alienware Gaming Lounge is open 7-days a week. 
Alienware Esports Lounge has ample, custom seating. 
Log into your account to play the game of your choice. 
Stations accommodate playing with multiple friends. 
The lounge has 50 games installed on its PC’s. 
The lounge has state-of-the-art Dell gaming stations.
UCM Alienware Lounge entrance. (Melodie Miller / Photographer).
Alienware hosts in person gaming night once per month with free pizza and tonight its Minecraft Bingo. “Minecraft is not normally a competitive game, but we thought we could make it competitive by doing the Bingo competition,” Pallas said.
Minecraft ( http://www.minecraft.net/en-us/aboutminecraft )
Accept the Minecraft bingo challenge? Achieve 5 down, 5 across or 6 diagonally and win the game.
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Mojang Studios, a video game developer based in Sweden introduce Minecraft in May 2009 as a sand-box-style where players could freely explore, interact with others and create. The idea is that people can experiment by playing survival or creative modes. Mojang Studios sold Minecraft to Microsoft Gaming in 2014 for $2.5 billion dollars.
Graphic was designed and developed with Piktochart. (Melodie Miller / Designer).
Minecraft has evolved over the years but it remains a sandbox-style video game that gives players a lot of freedom to explore, interact, and create virtual worlds without following a set objective. It is an environment where players build and explore virtual worlds by discovering and extracting raw materials with craft tools and machines.
Eli Grimm is a sophomore at C.U. majoring in engineering. His favorite game is Minecraft because it is a “creative game to play with your friends,” Grimm said. “Its a great way to connect with people. If you have close friends, but you guys live far away, you could play some games together. It’s something that’s social.”
Eli Grimm, C.U. gamer and engineering major. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
The Alienware Lounge is “sponsored by Dell Alienware. So we have these amazing rigs. These are top of the line computers that would cost several thousand dollars to make on your own,” student gaming event planner, Jesse Helser said.
Jesse Helser is a student gaming event planner at the Alienware Lounge at C.U. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
C.U. student, Colin Stewart, a junior majoring in psychology said, “My goal tonight is to win. This is the second time I’ve been here. I participated in the first event of this semester and I honestly have my own gaming PC in my dorm. But I enjoy coming out here.”
Colin Stewart, is a junior majoring in psychology at the University of Colorado in Boulder. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
Although C.U. offers 50 games, Minecraft has become the best selling video game world wide since its release in 2009. Sales topped at 300 millions copies sold as of 2024 and according to Xbox, there are nearly 170 million monthly players exploring the critically acclaimed virtual worlds.
A C.U. student played a video game as his friends sitting near by joined in the same battle. (Melodie Miller / Photographer)
The Alienware gaming lounge is a place created for fun and competition that offers students the opportunity to team build playing on high-tech gaming equipment. They can grow a community of gamers facilitated by the Center for Student Involvement 7 days a week.
UMC Alienware gaming lounge. (Melodie Miller / Photographer) https://www.colorado.edu/involvement/gaming-lounge
The Alienware Lounge is a place of community where friends can join in video games for relaxation and enjoyment. Students will find Alienware hours and coming events on the website.
Melodie Dawn Miller 