We shall be making Halloween that bit more entertaining with a game of TF2 from 8pm tonight as well our usual spot on Tuesday. Bring your papermasks and pumpkin heads and be prepared to kill the Horseless Headless Horsemann in Scream Fortress 2.

The second Halloween update features a new map in an eerie haunted house, new mini-boss and hunts for elusive gifts as well as everyone's favourite from last year - Exploding pumpkins! The update lasts until 8th November so be sure to enjoy it. Come join us if you dare!

As a great Cat once said, "Hey!  You can't have my shiny thing!  I found it, it's my shiny thing."

But it's ok because we are sharing our new shiny things with you. Yes more achievements!!

The beavers (and Squirrels) have been busy working away to bring you a sleek set of achievements all ready for you to earn at the next event.

Keep an eye our for the next achievement update coming your way soon.

If you haven't seen any achievements yet, then check out your profile to see which ones you, and your follow gamers, currently have.

Here's mine as an example, and you can click on names in the attendance list from epic.FIVE to see more profiles from the people who will be attending.

After some great hunting action at epic.lite 2, on Thursday, we'll be stepping back into the 1920s for some murder mystery action, taking place on board a luxury cruise liner.

A mysterious man named Mr. X has handed out free tickets for his luxury cruise. Little did the passengers know, they were falling into his devious trap. All the passengers are required to track down and murder another passenger. If a passenger chooses not to do so, Mr. X will kill both the passengers and his or her family.

During the game, each player is assigned a quarry, and the object of the game is to murder them with nobody watching, at the same time as looking out for your own hunter. The game also has dynamic priced weapons, so you gain more money for each kill depending on the rarity of the weapon you choose. (Hint - don't go for the fire axe! But bonus points if we see anybody get a sauna kill!)

If you don't already own The Ship, you can buy it on the Steam Store, alternatively if you already have it and you have any guest passes available on your account, let people know on the forums so other people can try it free for the epic.Thursday game!

The game will be up at server1.epiclan.co.uk:27115 on Thursday. See you there!

Tonight the epic.TF2 community play their second match in ETF2L's Highlander Tournament against UKCS at 7:30pm.

The line-up for this week has altered slightly with individuals' availability and now stands as:

• Scout: Hg
• Pyro: Inferno
• Medic: KamiKaze
• Sniper: Badgerr
• Spy: Zorg
• Engineer: Idy
• Soldier: Omnituens
• Heavy: Saboo
• Demoman: Riot

As before there shall be Source TV running;  fakkelbrigade.eu:2710. You can also join the Mumble banter and cheer us on from there.

Wish us luck as this is the final match in the Group stage and only a win will do!

We worry about you all getting bored during the cold, dark, winter weekends. So because we're a caring bunch of people, we will be running an online version of our popular puzzle hunt this December, to keep you busy inbetween epic.lite 3 and epic.FIVE.

Our online hunt will involve a series of cryptic clues taking you on a journey through the digital world to lead to the final minimum prize of two free epic.LAN tickets to be used in 2011, with the possibility of increasing the prize depending on the numbers playing.

You can work on your own, or in teams, to solve the clues. Last year around 100 players took part with the final clue being solved quickest by CantFitMyN. 

The main hunt will start on Saturday 18th December at 12noon with a series of teaser questions on the Friday Evening. Signups will open at the beginning of December.

Good Luck!

We had a promising start in the first map but unfortunately we were hit by some disconnect and ping issues which resulted in us setting disapporing times on both maps which the opposition were easily able to beat. Out next match is yet to be scheduled but we are all hoping we will be able to better our performance or at least keep 9 people on the server at once!

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Tonight the epic.TF2 community play their first match in ETF2L's Highlander Tournament against Gentlemen of Righteous at 8pm.

From the pool of willing volunteers, the line-up (as chosen by team captain Dunceantix with deputies Lady_KamiKaze and Omnituens) will be as follows:

• Scout: Riot
• Pyro: Inferno
• Medic: KamiKaze
• Sniper: Badgerr
• Spy: Zorg
• Engineer: Idy
• Soldier: Dny
• Heavy: Elsie
• Demoman: Rab

There will be a SourceTV stream available for us all to cheer the boys and girl(s) on at server1.epiclan.co.uk:27020 as well as the usual Mumble banter.

Best wishes to the team and fingers crossed we pass the group stages!

After a series of applications and interviews in the last few weeks, we're now pleased to announce the latest additions to the 2011 epic.LAN team lineup!

Event Team

• Zorg
• Daftchip
• Kamikaze

Content Editor

• Squirrel

TF2 Team

• Tapley
• Mole

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We are very pleased to announce the details of our first prize winning tournament at epic.LAN with our £1,000 Team Fortress 2 event taking place at the epic.FIVE LAN party in February 2011 at Uttoxeter Racecourse.

After taking a couple of years off from running competitive tournaments, we've decided now is the right time for epic.LAN to reintroduce some high-quality tournaments to our events and with TF2 already very popular both at our LANs and with our online games nights, it seemed to be the ideal choice of game.

We're also very excited to announce that the well known team of Tapley & Mole will be taking the admin role for the tournament.

For more details about the tournament, including prize details and FAQ, visit our TF2 Tournament pages.

Our great little LAN Party, epic.lite 3 (or elite for short) has sold out in an epic.LAN record of under 2 hours!

The event, which takes place in Bagnall Village Hall this November, houses just 32 participants and is a very relaxed affair, with more of a focus on meeting up with the community for a social event, with a bit of gaming mixed in.

If you missed out this time, but you'd still like to attend, then still sign up to the event as you would normally and you'll be added to our waiting list. Those on the waiting list will get notified first should any cancellation places become available.

Our next LAN event with places available is epic.FIVE, taking place in February 2011 at Uttoxeter Racecourse, Staffordshire.