2019
LARC computers upgraded to Alienware Aurora.
2016
LARC graduates its fifth PhD student, Dr. Timothy McMahan.
2015
LARC graduates its fourth PhD student, Dr. Joshua Taylor.
2014
LARC graduates its third PhD student, Dr. Jonathan Doran. Number of current-generation LARC computers increased to 25. Game Programming 1/Intro to Game Programming has a record enrolment of 56 students.
2013
LARC graduates its second PhD student, Dr. Dhanyu Amarasinghe.
2010
LARC awarded its first Certificates in Game Programming to five Spring 2010 graduates. The lab moved to its fifth location in NTRP F204 in August. LARC named in the top 50 out of 500 undergraduate game design programs in North America.
2009
LARC's 50th and 51st alumni, Tyler Cole and Katina Ferguson, got jobs in the game industry.
2008
Approval received for two new game programming classes, Game Math and Physics, and Topics in Game Development, and for a new Undergraduate Certificate in Game Programming.
2007
Approval received for two graduate game development classes, CSCE 5250 (Introduction to Game Programming) and 5260 (3D Game Programming). Topics in Game Development first taught as a section of Special Topics at the undergraduate and graduate level.
2006
SAGE, a Simple Academic Game Engine released under an open source license.
2005
LARC graduates its first PhD student, Dr. Timothy Roden.
2004
LARC moves to its fourth location in room F206 at the NT research park.
2003
Advanced Game Programming class achieves legitimacy with the awarding of its own course code (CSCI 4052) and catalog entry.
2001
GAB 204 has since been destroyed to make room for the Mayborn College of Journalism. This makes two former LARC locations that no longer exist.
2000
Advanced Game Programming first offered.
1998
Game Programming class first offered under the new CSCI 4050 course code.
1997
Introductory Game Programming class achieves legitimacy with the awarding of its own course code (CSCI 4050) and catalog entry.
1994
Introductory Game Programming class first offered as a section of Directed Studies. LARC moves into its second location in GAB 204.
1993
The Laboratory for Recreational Computing begins with Dr. Parberry's Directed Studies students in a cramped room in GAB. The exact room is lost to the mists of time however, because in 1994 the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences takes over the whole area and dismantles the room, walls and all, to make her new office suite.