PC rentals are now on sale for insomnia 45.

We now have two different options available to choose from:

Pro Gamer Package: £75
PC Spec: Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor, AMD Radeon™ HD 6870 GFX and 6GB Ram
Monitor Spec: iiyama 22" prolite

Casual Gamer Package: £60
PC Spec: Intel® Core™2 Q6600, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT GFX or higher and 4GB Ram
Monitor Spec: 19" Samsung/Packard Bell

To rent a PC for insomnia45 please head over to our support site and raise a ticket under event enquiries.

PC Rentals are sold on a first come first serve basis, make sure you get your order in quick before they all go!

To rent a PC you must have a paid ticket for insomnia45.
Seating for rental PCs are located in the TUP PC area, if you would like to take the rental PC out of the designation area, to sit with clan mates and friends, then a £200 deposit will be required.

Team fortress 2 comes to our Spring LAN again, and we are continuing to support the community by putting up a prize fund of at least £600 if 8 or more teams attend. Like all of our other tournaments, this prize pot will scale up, so encourage more teams to show up, and you will see more money, and it will be paid out to more teams. Get to 64 teams and the top 8 win something!

But thats not the most exciting part, the winning team earns 6 tickets to insomnia46! Our summer LANs are the Mecca of TF2 globally - last summer our tournament was the biggest ever seen and we look to repeat this at insomnia46 in 2012.


Infused - Winners of insomnia44 TF2

Here are some prize pool examples:

12 teams = £900 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
24 teams = £1,800 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
32 teams = £2,400 and £642 worth of i46 tickets.
64 teams = £4,800 and £642 worth of i46 tickets!

Disguise yourself as an enemy pyro and make your way over to our tickets page to grab a BYOC ticket, and then get signed up on our Team Fortress 2 tournament Page.

Bonk!

Our month long creative competition closed at 17:00 GMT today, and the judges will be released onto the creations to deliberate and compare this coming week! We also have a guest judge! Minecraft Chick from Mojang has agreed to decide the top 3 entries once our team of judges have finally narrowed them down.

We want to take this opportunity to also announce the launch of the Multiplay Mincraft Creative Speed Build, which will take place in 2 weeks and last only 1 weekend! It begins 3rd February at 3pm GMT and ends on Monday 6th at 9:30am GMT. Be warned however - signups will CLOSE on Wed Feb 1st at 4pm GMT so we have time to assign you plots to build in!

Just like our month long build, you will receive a 250x250 block plot, which you will need to build something creative with. There is no theme, just let your mind go crazy and impress our judges.

Prizes are as follows:
1st: $500 and Signed Minecraft T-Shirts for each player in the team
2nd: $250
3rd: $125
4th: $60
5th: $40
6th: $25

Just get on over to our tournament page and sign up now!

Overclocking is all about getting something for nothing. It’s about making impossible speed, possible. To celebrate the dark art of the overclocking, the world’s leading component manufacturer has teamed up with Multiplay, Kingston Technology and KitGuru to invite the best of the best from the world of overclocking to step up and be measured.

Entry is quick and easy and won’t cost you a penny. In a nutshell, simply run CPU-Z on your PC at standard clocks, and again when overclocked.

Then, send your CPU-Z scores to asuscompetition@kitguru.net and the 12 biggest percentage increases will be invited to a shoot out!

It is all based on the PERCENTAGE increase you can achieve – not the overall top speed. So a guy with a 1GHz processor that he clocks to 2GHz, will beat someone who takes a 2GHz CPU up to 2.4GHz. The 100% O/C achieved by overclocker number 1 will beat the 20% achieved by the second overclocker.

At the regional finals, held in February, each winner will receive NVIDIA GTX 560 and will also be invited to ASUS Overclocking Masters UK Grand Finals.

The Grand Final itself will happen at our Insomnia45 event at the Telford International Centre on 4th - 7th May 2012.

The winner of the Grand Final will be crowned as the UKs Top Overclocker for 2012 and will walk away with an ARMY of prizes from ASUS, Kingston Technology, Intel, NVIDIA and BeQuiet.

Good Luck!

Our very own Kharn is now live from Multiplay HQ with a preview of the best builds so far in our Minecraft Creative Competition.

Tune in live!

Not only do we have a massive key giveaway for the Tribes Ascend beta on Fileplay but we will also be giving away 10 VIP keys for Tribes Ascend!

These keys give you: 

• 3,000 Tribes Gold (Value: $30 USD)




• 30-Day Booster* (Value: $15 USD)




• Lifetime VIP Status




• And of course, admission to Beta 

*Boosters double your xp earnt, and tokens and VIP status gives you priority login to the game, forever!

If you are already in the Beta then do notworry, you can also apply these VIP keys to existing beta accounts and you will keep your character process that you have already earnt.

So, how do you win? There is two ways! Either retweet the competition tweet from @iseries, or like the competition post on our Facebook page. You will need to follow @iseries or be a fan of Multiplay on Facebook to be eligible for a prize.

Well be drawing the winners at 5pm UTC tomorrow (Friday), so don't miss out!

The competitors in our Minecraft Creative Xmas Competition have almost run out of building time! Some of the things players have made are pretty epic, and others... not so much.

This Friday we will be live streaming a preview of some of the creations people have made - ALL DAY! Tune in any time between 10am and 5pm GMT to see what crazy things that peoples creative minds have come up with. Some of these builds literally have hundreds of hours work put into them so you do not want to miss this!

Find the stream embedded on this front page throughout Friday, or simply visit our twitch channel.

The live video stream is just a preview, the winning plots will be released in more yet to be announced videos! More will be revealed soon enough...

Today we are pleased to announce that we have a massive key giveaway for the Tribes Ascend beta on Fileplay!



Tribes: Ascend is the worlds fastest shooter. A high-adrenaline, online multiplayer shooter with jetpacks, skiing, vehicles, and multiple classes.

The classic shooter franchise Tribes has been played by well over 1 million people. With Tribes:Ascend, the franchise is reborn - fast-paced, vertical, acrobatic combat combined with class-based teamwork and stunning sci-fi visuals.

Not only do we have loads of beta keys to be given away, but well also be running a competition in which you can win one of 10 Tribes: Ascend VIP keys. These keys give you:

• 3,000 Tribes Gold (Value: $30 USD)


• 30-Day Booster (Value: $15 USD)


• Lifetime VIP Status


• Admission to Beta

Interested? Head on over to Fileplay now to claim your Beta Key or watch our Twitter and Facebook page for information on how to win a VIP key!

Here at Multiplay we are all about the community and we are proud to introduce
"Clan Group Discounts"

Clan Group Discounts allow clans to purchase group tickets with a discount option and get a bonus £50 worth of Multiplay online services to help you get ready for LAN, this includes game and voice servers available at Multiplay GameServers

We have 3 clan group discount options available:

5+ Tickets

With the purchase of 5 to 9 insomnia45 tickets the clan can choose from 1 of 2 options:

Option 1: free EAS on all tickets or
Option 2: £50 worth of Multiplay online services.

More of a social clan? Get free EAS and spend another day playing games with your friends!

Competitive clan? Taking part in one of the many 5 v 5 tournaments announced for insomnia45 this May? Take advantage of the £50 worth of Multiplay services and use them to purchase a voice and game server to practise on.
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10+ Tickets

With the purchase of 10 to 19 insomnia45 tickets the clan can choose from 1 of 2 options:

Option 1: 10% off the ticket price or
Option 2: free EAS on all tickets and £50 worth of Multiplay online services!

Does your clan want to save money or spend more time gaming? Choose the option which best suits your clans needs.
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20+ Tickets

With the purchase of 20+ insomnia45 tickets the clan can choose from 1 of 2 options:
Option 1: 20% off the ticket price or
Option 2: free EAS on all tickets, a free 20 man Clanbox and £50 worth of Multiplay online services!

Does your clan want to save money, or game more in the comfort of your own clanbox? Choose the option which best suits your clans needs.
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How do you purchase one of these options?

Head over to our tickets page and select the group booking option, select the number of tickets you want to purchase, select bank transfer and read the agree to the terms and conditions.
You will then recieve an email which will include your group booking references.
Once you have these you can raise a support ticket with the following information:

* Full name
* The number of bookings you have made and which option (1 or 2) you would like to choose as a reward
* Booking references

Alternatively you can contact the office directly and purchase over the phone

All options cannot be used in conjunction with any other discounts or offers.

Oh yes indeedy. We have something for those Minecraft lovers out there at our insomnia45 event in Telford, England on May 4th-7th. We are launching our Creative Build Competition! Now this tournament is like part of the furniture (built out of wooden blocks created from a punched tree of course) and we would not want you to miss out on a weekend of building cool stuff for us all to see.

Have a peek at what happened during our previous event, insomnia44:



That is A_Spec showing us around the winning 3 plots of the insomnia44 Creative Minecraft Competition - you could be immortalised in a video like this one! You could be joining our host on the stage to explain how your creation works to show it to the crowd. We had everything from Indiana Jones Temples to Skyrim Fortress replicas built on the servers!

If you want to get involved - grab your ticket, read about the competition and get signed up now. Maybe grab one of our servers for yourself, so you can practise building with your team - they are currently on a 25% deal.

Progress Report - Xmas Online Build Competition

Currently our online version of this competition is running on our incredibly popular Multiplay Minecraft Servers where over 500 teams of hopefuls are creating all sorts of awesome things, for example, the image below was on the first server we checked today:



It appears to be a Japanese Temple Fortress built with impeccable attention to detail - we cannot wait to see what else there is to see. There are also things like a working game of Guess Who which 2 players can play and a Theme Park with Working Ridable Rides! Check out our videos coming in the next few weeks!