If you haven't yet played the fantastic indie title, Plain Sight, then you can win a copy in our epic.LAN Plain Sight Giveaway.

Plain Sight will be featuring as one of our fun tournaments at epic.FOUR next weekend (29th July - 1st August) and if you don't already have a copy, or you want to win one for your friends, then you can join in our free competition to win one in time to play in the epic.FOUR tournament.

All you have to do to enter is answer a couple of simple questions about the game correctly, we'll then pick out the winners at 10pm on the Thursday at epic.FOUR. You don't have to be at the LAN to win, but it would be much better if you are!

Thanks to our friends at Introversion we have 5 full retail keys of their award winning game DEFCON.

All you have to do is answer a simple question here to be in with your chance of winning. In the mean time you can grab the demo here

It's Global Thermonuclear War, and nobody wins.
But maybe - just maybe - you can lose the least.

Closing date 6pm Saturday 10th April

In addition to our "Decorate Your Desk" mini competition, we're pleased to announce the return of "Capture the LAN" and this one is for all of the budding photographers out there!

This one is quite simple, all you have to do is take a photograph and submit it to a folder on the FTP at the LAN. The photograph has to be something that captures the atmosphere of an epic.LAN and sums it up in one single image. Each entrant will be allowed to submit up to 5 images.

So this one wont be judged on who has the biggest camera lens, but more about who snaps the moment that just captures what epic.LAN is all about! Once again, we'll find a prize for the winner and show off some of the best entries in our gallery. Closing will be 12noon on the Sunday of epic.THREE.

So we asked you to show off your latest Christmas presents and how tidy (or not) you keep your  desk. The task was to simply take a photo of your desk perhaps including a small clue that might help people to guess whose desk it is.

16 People rose to the challenge and these are their desks below.

Send in your answers to desks@epiclan.co.uk between now and midnight 18th January we’ll work out
the winner. The person who then gets the most correct guesses wins a pint (or other drink) at epic.THREE. So let’s see how well you can remember what people bring to events.

Some clues are a bit more obvious than others...

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Now is the time to show off your latest Christmas presents and how tidy (or not) you keep your desk. The task is to simply take a photo of your desk perhaps including a small clue that might help people to guess whose desk it is. Send in your pictures to desks@epiclan.co.uk between now and 11th January we’ll put them on display. The person who then gets the most correct guesses wins a pint (or other drink) at epic.THREE. So let’s see how well you can remember what people bring to events.

Just make sure your photo doesn’t include your nick as your wallpaper or some other massive giveaway!

Now go take those pics, and remember to send your nick when you submit your picture.

If you're going to spend nearly 4 days with us at epic.THREE, then you may as well make the space you're living in your own while you're there.

We're pleased to announce the return of the Decorate Your Desk competition at our next event after some great efforts made at epic.TWO, but this time we want more people taking part!

Prizes will be available to the most creative way in which people customise their space at the LAN and will be judged on the Friday evening of epic.THREE.

The main rules of the contest are that the entry must be safe, cannot use loud noises, cannot plug into the event power system and cannot excessively irritate your neighbours!

This is just the first of our mini-contests to be announced for epic.THREE, but you can only take part if you're there. Visit the epic.THREE site for more details and to sign up.