We are very pleased to announce that EA and EA Store will yet again support the Battlefield: Bad Company 2 tournament at Insomnia40, with a whacking £2,500 prize pot! The latest in the Battlfield series, Bad Company 2 has proved to be insanely popular with gamers across the globe, and is sure to be just as popular at insomnia40!

If you like Bad Company 2, Why not take a look at Medal of Honor? EA Store have just released Medal of Honor: Limited Edition and you can get your hands on exclusive EA Store unclocks such as the MP-7 and early access to the Shotgun Pack!

With a maximum of 48 teams, you will have to hurry in order to get your team signed up! First place will secure you a huge £1,500 prize, with second place getting £750, and third £250.

If you haven’t got your ticket for insomnia40, head on over to our i-Series booking page and secure your place at the UK’s biggest gaming event! We will be posting rules on the tournament in due course.

We are pleased to announce that DinoPC.com will be sponsoring our Multiplay area and showcasing their latest hardware.

Here’s what Jonny Raymond from DinoPC.com has to say:

"Think you have what it takes to be the next Lewis Hamilton?

Visit DinoPC at the insomnia40 event, where you can set your fastest lap on our racing simulator.

There are 3 prizes available. The fastest lap wins NVIDIA 3D Glasses and 22" 3D-Ready Viewsonic screen, second position wins a Gigabyte H55N-USB3 mini-ITX motherboard and third position wins an Antec ISK300-65 mini-ITX case.

DinoPC is a London-based system builder. At Dino PC we always aim to give you more, bringing you the latest technology before the competition, and regularly updating our product range to make sure that only the best components go into every custom built PC. With a custom built PC from Dino PC you get much more than a beige box, we pride ourselves on providing service and support that receives regular praise and recommendations from our customers."

To find out more about DinoPC.com check out their website, or come visit their booth at Insomnia40!

Just a quick update with regards to the Thermaltake insomnia40 CounterStrike Source Online Qualifiers.

All demos from the first 2 rounds are now uploded and available at:

Fileplay Demos Link – Click Latest Files or search for your team name in the top right – Enjoy!

With regards to the schedule, everything is going very well. To keep you all reminded and updated the schedule can be found below:

Thermaltake CS:S Online Qualifer Schedule

A very close tournament so far with Power Gaming still to play Neckbeards in the 2nd round of the upper bracket. Their game is scheduled for Wednesday 14th 22:00 BST. Will be a great game to watch! See you there!

Signups for StratLAN October 2010 are now live, and we’ve got some good news!
StratLAN October will now extend to a 4th day, running from 6pm 15th of October until 4pm Monday the 18th!

For those of you who haven’t been to a StratLAN event before, it’s the heart of our social gaming.
With the whole lan often playing the same game, it’s very easy to make new friends at a StratLAN event, and it’s not just for regular members of our community!

Quick info:

• 6:00pm Friday 15th October – 4:00pm Monday 18th October 2010
• The Paddock Suite, Stratford-on-Avon Racecourse
• 110 BYOC Spaces – £50.00 or £40.00 before August 7th!
• Venue Facilities: Showers, Camping space, some Kitchen facilities.
• Alcohol Policy: Bring your Own Beer

If you want some more information or want to sign up, just head on over to our new StratLAN website!

It’s nearly here! Only a few hours remaining and the temperature is rising. Looking set to be one of the best tournaments this year, we are at the final hurdles. As always there have been a few hiccups along the way but we are looking set for a cracking tournament.

Here is what you need to know:

Signups are STILL open. They will remain open until 4:30pm. There are currently 6 remaining slots. These have become free due to some of the Invite teams being unable to attend last minute due to various reasons. Signups will remain open here:

http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/signups – use your Multiplay Login.

On a side note there are several teams with 4 that are not entered until they have a complete 5. Perhaps these teams want to jump on their players and make sure they are all signed up. To check you have 5 go here:

http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/events/Tournaments/ – Click CounterStrike Source on the left, then Teams, hover over your team name to see the players entered.

Schedule for the tournament:

Round 1 – Thursday 8th July – 7pm BST
Round 2 – Thursday 8th July – 8pm BST
Round 3 – Thursday 15th July – 7pm BST
Round 4 – Thursday 15th July – 8pm BST
Round 5 – Thursday 15th July – 9pm BST
Round 6 – Thursday 22nd July – 7pm BST
Round 7 – Thursday 22nd July – 8pm BST
Round 8 – Thursday 22nd July – 9pm BST
Round 9 – Wednesday 28th July – 7pm BST
Upper Final – Wednesday 28th July – 8pm BST
Lower Final – Wednesday 28th July – 9pm BST
Consolation Final – Thursday 29th July – 7pm BST
Grand Final – Thursday 29th July – 8pm BST – Best of 3!!!

Please make sure that a MINIMUM of one of your members are available in #Multiplay.css on Quakenet in IRC!!! This is mandatory! More information can be gathered there at any time.

Rulesets can be found here: http://iseries.multiplay.co.uk/i40/tournaments/css-online/

Brackets are released at 5:00pm! In 1 Hour! Simply go to: http://tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/events/Tournaments/ – Click on Matches!

Admins:

Damage – Lead Admin
FiRe – Lead Admin
beefcake – Admin
Gumpster – Admin
SBB – Admin

Additional News: We have made it possible for a number of teams to reschedule their first games due to DSRack LAN. We are moving their games to Tuesday 13th July or Wednesday 14th dependant on each teams agreement. So the unfortunate news is that perhaps 3 or 4 teams will not have games tonight but will be asked to play them Tues/Weds next week. We have done this to allow as much access to the tournament as we can and enable as many teams to participate as physically possible. Hopefully this wont affect any teams too much.

Please all be in IRC as of 6:30pm BST so we can stick to schedule. All have your CS:S updated, everything you need to play ready as we will not be waiting except for extreme circumstances. Any questions can be asked/answered there.

Best of luck to all the teams entered. CU ON

Thats right people, the time is drawing near. We are roughly 1 week away from the start of the online qualifications for Multiplays Insomnia40 Thermaltake CounterStrike Source Tournament. This announcement is being made to allow for an additional 48 hours to be added before signups close. Initially signups were due to close on the 30th June, yesterday, but we are extending them until Friday to allow for all teams to fill their rosters.

Now i suppose we should give you some incentive to sign up quickly. There were 48 open spaces and 16 invite spaces available, obviously the invite spaces are chosen by us however the other 48 are first come first serve. There are currently 81 teams signed up HOWEVER only 35 have full rosters! This means there are still 13 spaces available, however im pretty sure as soon as this announcement is posted they will go very quickly.

Something I would also like to bring to your attention. The tournament starts on Thursday 8th July, the day before DSRack LAN. Now there have been requests to make the games earlier to allow teams time to prepare for DSRack. Currently the games are scheduled at 7pm GMT and 8pm GMT, is this early enough? Currently the trail of thought is that we will use these times for the remainder of the tournament (the following 2 thursdays). Any feedback is welcome here.

Finally the confirmed invites so far: Reason Gaming, Power Gaming, FragMasters! Toxic, The Last Resort, RAGE.Enuzi, OX.Enermax, eXelon Gaming, VeryGames, DSRack, H2k. Final reminders have been sent to those outstanding. Should they be ignored we will move to the reserve invites.

Signups at: Tournament Signups!

See you there!

Today we are pleased to announce that we are now taking Pre-Orders for Gameservers on the hottest title of this summer, Medal of Honor.

As an official EA Ranked Server provider for Medal of Honor and other EA titles, we’ve got the highest quality gaming server setup around.

We’ve got a bespoke network finely tuned to be the best for your Gameserver, and the best server hardware that money can buy. You can always be sure to get the best performance possible from a Multiplay Gameserver.

Want to experience the best before the game is released? Purchase a Bad Company 2 server today and you’ll be able to swap to Medal of Honor upon release instantly and at no extra cost!

As ever all our game servers come with instant setup, free web hosting, free mumble voice comms server (or half price Ventrilo/Teamspeak server) and course our fast and efficient support! Why not head over to www.multiplaygameservers.com and check out our amazing offers.

Yes, you read right; the BETA for the latest in the Medal of Honor series is now available to download from Fileplay! The highly anticipated title from DICE is looking to make inroads into the hold that Bad Company 2 has taken in the genre, and with some of the early footage and screenshots it seems to be gearing up to do a good job!

You can grab the MOH BETA client from Fileplay

To get access to the beta, you need to pre-order the game which you can do via EA Store.

If you don’t want to pre-order the game however, never fear! We will have public BETA Keys available on Fileplay later in the month, and we’ll let you know when they are available for download!

We are also proud to announce that Multiplay will be once again be an official Ranked Server provider for EA with Medal of Honor, meaning that you will be able to get your hands on a one of our high quality, low ping official MOH gameservers for you and your clan. Plus with our recent US gameservers launch you can now get your gameserver in 5 locations across the USA and Europe! Gameserver pre-orders are not live as yet, but watch this space for when they go live!

Keep an eye on our Twitter, Facebook Page or the Multiplay News page for more information on BETA keys when we have it!

Over the weekend we opened up signups for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup Online Qualifiers.

We will be running Online Qualifiers for the Thermaltake Counter-Strike Source Cup, allowing 4 teams the chance to win free entry into Insomnia40.

Signups are now open for the 64 team double elimination online qualifiers. 16 teams have been invited so there are only 48 available spaces that will be issued on a first come first serve basis. Signups will close when 48 full teams (5 members) have signed up or the signup end date is reached on the 30th June.

Instead of 1st and 2nd place going through to the elimination round as if they had finished first and 3rd and 4th going through to the elimination round as if they had finished second, we have decided that the 4 winning teams will simply be seeded 1 – 4 in the elimination bracket at insomnia40. We hope this change will increase the incentive to enter the online qualifier. We will also release the confirmed invited teams shortly.

To sign up head to tournaments.multiplay.co.uk/signups/ and use your normal Multiplay Login to register your team. All 5 members MUST be signed up to the team for it to be classed as a complete team so please ensure you all get signed up. This is looking set to be a great tournament with some great interest already so go get signed up!

If you’ve not already got a ticket for what will undoutably be the best event so far this year, head on over to our tickets page to secure your place today!

UPDATE! This how now been delayed until Saturday by the developers, however keep an eye on Fileplay for when the keys are released!

All Points Bulletin, the highly anticipated action MMO from Realtime Worlds & EA will be arriving on our very own Fileplay tomorrow (10th June) in the form of their latest BETA; APB Key to the City! We will have 50,000 keys to give away throughout the next five days, which will give you access to the APB world for a limited time.

We will have more information tomorrow when the keys become available for download, but needless to say keep an eye on www.fileplay.net!