We're going old-school at epic.FOURTEEN!

After lots of attempts, we've finally been able to get our hands on the much-anticipated Retron 5 to use at epic.FOURTEEN to add to our casual gaming activities. This awesome console allows you to relive your NES, SNES, Mega Drive, and Game Boy childhood experiences as well as many more console classics.

We'll be gathering up a load of old controllers and games as well as putting on some fun tournaments on some classic games, but feel free to bring along more games to enjoy over the weekend.

epic.FOURTEEN tickets are selling really fast and is on-track to sell out by the event, so don't miss out! Grab your tickets today.

Lakeside Defrag has now been completed. Please still encourage fellow community members to book as soon as possible to avoid disappointment!

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epic.FOURTEEN is already on track to be our biggest event yet, and with 3 major events in 2015, it's looking like another really exciting year for epic.LAN!

We're looking for people to volunteer in the following areas and to be a part of some awesome events:

• Event Team - Part of our general team responsible for helping all the participants and running our casual game programme.
• Front of House Team - Our newest team, dedicated to looking after our main helpdesk and shop. Even if you're only able to help on this team during the day and want to keep the evenings to LAN, then let us know.
• Content Team - As the events grow, more people want to hear about what's going on. Whether you have a knack for written content, video editing or production, let us know.
• eSports Team - Our growing eSports programme means we're looking for admin experts in our key games such as Dota2, SC2, CSGO, Hearthstone and LoL as well as people looking to build their live-event casting experience.

If you're interested in helping out in any of the above roles, then please contact us straight away with details of your experience and what you can offer to the team. If you've got what it takes, we'll be back in touch with you to arrange a chat with some of the existing team members.

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Over the past few years, the popularity of board games at epic.LAN has been increasing every event.

After discussions with the venue and some changes to room layouts, we're pleased to announce that we'll be creating a board games area in the Lakeside Foyer at epic.FOURTEEN.

While the Gallery is designed to be a great social space, sometimes board games need extra concentration and as we screen more of our internal coverage and add entertainment to the Gallery, this new area will give board games fans some extra peace and quiet.

Planning to bring your favourite board games to the event? Chat with your fellow players over on our forums to make the most of our new area.

It was touch and go for a while, after the lower than expected numbers at the last event, we've been thinking very carefully about CS:GO for epic.FOURTEEN.

Over the past few weeks though, we've been bombarded with requests for CS:GO to be included in the tournament lineup, so we're happy to oblige!

So to all those who've been asking us to keep it in the lineup recently, make sure you now show your support and grab your ticket for the event and show us that the community really wants the game to continue at epic.LAN!

After many requests over the past few years, we've decided that the gap between July and February is far too long, so in 2015 we'll be hosting three main epic.LAN events. Make sure you add these to your diary and get those all-important holiday requests in nice and early:

• epic.FOURTEEN: Thurs 19th - Sunday 22nd February
• elite15: Friday 22nd - Monday 25th May
• epic.FIFTEEN: Thurs 16th - Sunday 19th July
• epic.SIXTEEN: Thursday 8th - Sunday 11th October
• elite16: Friday 4th - Sunday 6th December
  
  

After a lot of consideration, we can confirm that League of Legends will be included in the epic.FOURTEEN lineup. The numbers for League of Legends have been up and down over recent events. It was our biggest tournament last February, but then with a low turnout in July for various timing reasons.

So we've decided to give it another chance and hope to see the UK LoL community build on previous events and hopefully smash the numbers from last February. We'll be launching with an initial prize pot up to £3000 (subject to team signups) with the opportunity for that to increase depending on partner involvement over the coming months.

epic.FOURTEEN takes place from 19th - 22nd February 2015 at Kettering Conference Centre, Northamptonshire. Tickets are available for just £65 with over 25% of tickets already gone.

Hot on the heels of our EGX London Dota2 Challenge, we're pleased to confirm the return of Dota2 to epic.FOURTEEN in February 2015 with an initial prize pool of up to £3000.

Dota2 joins the existing lineup of Starcraft2 and Hearthstone as part of our eSports programme at the event, with initial prizepools hopefully to be increased subject to support from our partners.

Bookings are open for epic.FOURTEEN with BYOC tickets discounted to just £55 until 8pm 30th September, so make sure you grab your bargain ticket before time runs out.

We are very excited to announce that following on from our popular stand at EGX Rezzed earlier in the year, the EGX team has invited us back for the UK's biggest gaming show, EGX London (formerly Eurogamer Expo).

We've teamed up with EGX to offer a weekend of Dota2 action, giving new players the opportunity to try out the game and hopefully promote the UK Dota community as well as offering a feature tournament with online heats to give the top 4 teams the opportunity to play in the heart of one of the UK's biggest gaming events at Earl's Court next month for some cool prizes (to be announced shortly).

For more details about the online tournament, giving chance for the top 4 teams to win tickets to EGX on Sunday 28th September (sold out to the general public), visit our tournament minisite. Tournament signups close on Tuesday 26th August, so make sure you sign up now!

We thought epic.THIRTEEN was going to be the last we saw of the SC2 community for a while, but there was such great support and we've had so many people asking us to keep SC2 on the lineup, we're pleased to confirm that Starcraft 2 will be back for epic.FOURTEEN in February 2015 as one of our official eSports tournaments.

epic.FOURTEEN takes place from 19-22nd February 2015 at the Kettering Conference Centre. Tickets are just £55 until the end of September.

We look forward to welcoming the SC2 community back to our next event!