It wouldn't be a July LAN Party without a good helping of hot meat, and you know we don't like to disappoint!

Therefore, we're pleased to announce that we will be holding one of our almost famous BBQs at epic.FOUR on the Friday evening at around 7.

As usual, we will be ordering massive quantities of meat (and meat-themed substitutes) for your delectation and serving it up until you can't eat any more.

All we need you to do is go to your epic.FOUR Booking and add the BBQ Service. If you want to pay for that service now, that's great, if not then please do still add the service so we know how much meat to buy. If we start to run out at the event, then priority will go to those who have pre-booked!

If you haven't booked at all for epic.FOUR, then get on with it and remember to add the BBQ when you book!

Suicidal ninja sword-wielding robots...

Such an obvious concept for a game! You play a robot character, collect energy from falling stars or by killing other robots with your sword, and when you've collected enough energy, you go suicidal in a giant explosion. The bigger the bang, the more points you get...simples!

We'll be running a fun Plain Sight tournament as part of the epic.FOUR LAN Party in July at Uttoxeter Racecourse.The exact game format is to be determined based on your feedback, but is likely to be selected from Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag.

If you don't already have Plain Sight, you can grab it now from Steam and you can also play on our own Plain Sight Server.

It seems you just can't resist our epic meat, so we've decided to add a second BBQ to epic.lite 1.

Our next event, epic.lite 1 (which sold out ages ago!) will now have two helpings of our hot meat, on Saturday and Sunday evenings during the LAN.

So if you want to nom on both servings, then please make sure you have at least added the extra service to your booking, it's fine to pay at the event if you'd prefer but we at least need the provisional booking to make sure we get enough food!

If you missed out on lite1, then we have a limited number of weekend spectator passes available, or alternatively, you can join us at our next LAN Party, epic.FOUR in July.

We are pleased to announce that Antec will be supporting the epic.FOUR LAN Party this July at Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire UK.

Our friends at Antec have sent over a great range of prizes including one of their Sonata family quiet enclosures and a range of cooling products, but to be in with a chance of winning from this fantastic set of prizes, you need to be there at epic.FOUR.

About Antec Inc.

Antec, Inc., is the leading global brand of high-performance computer components and accessories for the gaming, PC upgrade and Do-It-Yourself (DIY) markets.

Antec’s offering of enclosures includes a large range of cases, such as its technically advanced Performance One Series, cost-effective New Solution Series and server grade cases designed for the needs of all workstation and server markets. Antec’s products also include front line power supplies such as its TruePower Trio series, Quattro series, and EarthWatts, the most environmentally friendly power supplies available. PC gamers are an increasingly significant consumer of performance components, and many Antec products are geared toward the gaming demographic, like the Nine Hundred, the premier gamer enclosure.

MOAR GAMING.... We request your presence for the first epic.Thursday @ 20:00.

The new indie hit, Plain Sight, is this week's game of choice. Loads of people have bought it recently and it's an easy game to pick up and play (it's cheap too!)

Check it out on steam

epic.Thursday is the second of our two weekly games nights and will feature games that are a bit different from our Tuesday events, including a number of free games such as Warsow, Armagetron and more!

See you in the server!

One of the most exciting and immersive first person shooters of the year, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, is here to show Modern Warfare 2 how it should be done!

Where this game lacks in single player campaign action, it more than makes up in it's multiplayer gaming; from huge maps, excellent team play, destructable landscapes and amazing sound design, this game has it all!

And epic.LAN is pleased to announce that we now have a public server up and running which is already proving to be very popular!

To join the server, simply search for 'epiclan' in the game server browser and join in the intense action!

We have a range of public servers running for the community members, including TF2, L4D & L4D2, Neotokyo and Quake3 as well as others on request or for our games nights. To find out more about these servers, and our Mumble server, visit our Game Servers page.

See you on the Battlefield!

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

epic.LAN is pleased to announce that, in co-operation with Uttoxeter Racecourse and Uttoxeter Riding School, participants and spectators at epic.FOUR will have a free opportunity to try out horse-riding around the historic Uttoxeter racecourse.

For those of you with existing riding experience you can choose between the fast flat course or try your hand at the jumps! Which ever way you decide to go there will be members of the Riding School on hoof to help you.

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The great Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen used to sing about vital statistics every day in The Big Breakfast; while their stats were less than vital, here are some you just won't be able to live without... well... maybe...

For over a year now we have been watching, listening and gathering statistics about what we talk about in #epic.lan. This has now been analysed, parsed, compiled and had their splines thoroughly reticulated.

We are proud to announce to you.... irc.stats.epiclan.co.uk

have fun... :)

We can now confirm the remainder of the dates for our Midlands LAN parties in 2010

• epic.lite 1 - 28th - 31st May 2010 (Spring Bank Holiday) - Sold Out
• epic.FOUR - 29th July - 1st August 2010 (Bookings Now Open)
• epic.lite 2 - 24th-26th September 2010 (Bookings Opening June)
• epic.lite 3 - 19th - 21st November (Bookings Opening August)

epic.FOUR will be one of our main events at Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire UK and will have capacity for at least 120 gamers. We've decided to stick to just 2 main events this year at the racecourse, but hope to bring 3 main epic.LAN events in 2011.

Our epic.lite events are much smaller and more relaxed events for just 32 people in our original home at Moorlands Village Hall, Bagnall (also in Staffordshire). The first epic.lite event is already sold out, with a waiting list in operation, though there is a small number of spectator passes available.