Join the community and win Trials HD DLC

Tonight we are pleased to announce the first in our competitions while at Epic.EIGHT, all you have to do is join the community.

There are 5 pairs of Trials HD Big Pack and Big Thrills DLC to give away, kindly donated to us by the guys at RedLynx, there are two ways to win:

#1 via Twitter, all you have to do follow our twitter feed and retweet the competition tweet when it appears.

#2 like our Facebook wall and comment on the competition post when it hits the wall.

There will be 3 pairs given out via twitter and 2 pairs given out via Facebook, entries close at 9am GMT tomorrow (18th Feb) good luck.

CoD4 Epic.EIGHT Group Stage

 

Welcome to our constantly updating, live coverage of the £2500 Call of Duty 4 Epic.EIGHT tournament. Coming in straight from the event, we'll keep this post updated as it happens, keeping you in the know.

With 22 teams taking part in this tournament, this is a pioneering event for Call of Duty 4 and is bound to liven the lagging Pro-Gaming scene for the title. The victors of last years tournament fm! Sapphire are here to defend their title, as well as the runners up LANiMALS, who still sore from their defeat last LAN, plan to dominate.

However with 20 other top teams from all over Europe including top teams such as: TCM-Gaming, team Infused, and Epic.LAN newcomers ESPC.LGT from Finland, it's going to be one hell of a battle to the top.

Epic.EIGHT Tournament Fixtures Announced

With the combatants drawing up ready for battle in the CSS 5v5, and CoD4 5v5 tournaments, the group stage fixtures have been revealed. Setting off at 11am this morning for both tournaments, this event should see the clash of some of the UK's premier CSS and CoD4 teams, including last years winners LiNK, and fm! Sapphire.

The lineup announced for the games are as follows:

Counter Strike Source 5v5

Group A FRAGMASTERS TOXIC Visualize Your Enmity Perilous Hyphen Xtreame One

Group B Rasta Gaming MALIK-eSports  Nice Guys arachnid GIANTS Paynt's Fanbois

Street Fighter's Ryu Appears in Asura's Wrath

On first glance of this picture Ryu is facing off with Akuma, but in reality it's Asura from Capcom's next title Asura's Wrath. Does this mean Street Fighter is gaining another character to boost it's roster, as a shameless PR stunt for the game?

No, but.. yes at the same time, apparently Ryu is making a cameo in Asura's Wrath as DLC, we have little to go on but this picture so far, but as you can see the game will be switching to a Street Fighter IV style at some point. This shouldn't seem too far fetched, when the game seems as crazy as any Dragonball Z episode.

Capcom promised to reveal all soon. Asura's Wrath launches in the UK on 9th March.

Good Mornin' Epic.Lan

Well myself and Fatal have made it through the opening night of Epic.EIGHT, despite the beer and chaos.

The opening ceremony was a blast ending with a Rock Band 2 score attack tournament on Tenacious D's Tribute, Epic Radio was first to bat but then got served by the other two teams, one of which Fatal ended up subbing as the drummer. Fatal's team (pictured above) of course won and free beer was had by all, huzzah!

Keep up with the event via this site, and twitter by either directly from us or Epic.LAN

Four fighting fantasy indie games coming with the help of Epic

Commando Kiwi, Derp Studios, Digital Mage and Indigo Jam, four groups founded by members of the Train2game course took part in the the Epic Game Jam competition last year, which the winners win full source commercial Unreal Engine 3 license for iOS - worth a cool $1 million, have now teamed up with Epic themselves to release four games based on the Fighting Fantasy series of books.

The games will release on iPhone, iPad and iPod touch this spring following a reveal at The Gadget Show Live the books chosen are The Warlock of Firetop Mountain, The Citadel of Chaos, Deathtrap Dungeon and Armies of Death.

Valve Release $100 TF2 item.

To coincide with Valentines Day Valve added a new TF2 item in a special Valentines Day update. The item humorously named "Something Special For Someone Special" had better live up to it's name sake given that it price is $100 which is extremely expensive given that it is just a miscellaneous item.

Valve testify that "It's ring-shaped, it's gift-wrapped, it's basically useless, and it's really expensive ($100!). In short, it's the most accurate simulation of an actual Valentine's Day gift ever made available to the public."

The ring itself allows you to pledge your "love" to another player within the game. Simply you propose to another player and if they accept you will receive matching wedding bands to show your lovey doveyness to other players in-game.

The item itself costs $100 USD/ £69.99 GBP / €74.99 EUR