Following on from epic.TWO, we made the commitment to improve the scheduling and communications at the events. After a number of staff discussions, and some inspiration from other events, we've decided to look at the big screen as a better communications method, as well as clearing up the sound from the speaker system.

Our current big screen used simple PowerPoint to display messages. While it did the job for static announcements, it made it difficult to include any dynamic content and was also a bit clunky to update.

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Our good friends at Crucial have confirmed that they will be sending their support to epic.THREE with a great selection of goodies, including a top prize of a 4GB DDR2 Ballistix RAM kit and of course plenty Memory Hawg pigs!

Take a look at the Crucial range of products at www.crucial.com/uk or you can follow them at twitter.com/crucialmemory

There's plenty more yet to announce about epic.THREE, to get involved make sure you've signed up and booked your ticket!

If you're a fan of the Crucial Memory Hawg then grab a look at the Memory Hawg Song on Youtube.

Everybody's favourite LAN retailer, Kustom, will be coming along for a couple of days of epic.THREE to bring their great selection of peripherals, Kool Aid and of course Scottish Tablet for your enjoyment!

Plenty more details to be announced closer to the time, including the stock list and details of how to pre-order and collect at LAN.

The Kustom team will also be running a load of fun games on their stand with plenty of prizes for you all to win!

We're sure some of you want to see a bit more of the epic.THREE venue and the facilities on offer, so we've updated our venue pages with some new details and pictures of the various facilities at the event which will also hopefully help you to find out where you're going when you arrive on site!

Find out more about epic.THREE:

• Venue Information
• Sleeping
• Travel
• Book Your Place

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.