Its time! Begin building Minecrafters! Click here to find out which plot, and the IP address for your build! Just add the server into your Minecraft server page, and join!

If you are not listed then we are sorry, but you signed up after the cut of time Wednesday and missed out this time.

A further note - if you are entering into the Video competition - do not feel pressured into filming your plot over the weekend - we will reopen them next week after the close time (Monday 9:30am GMT) for you to enter and film - but building will be disabled to prevent naughty last minute edits!

Good luck everyone!

Thats right! We have opened up ticket sales for insomnia46, which is being held on 24th - 27th August at the Telford International Centre.

We know that many of our customers can only attend one insomnia event a year and have enquired about purchasing these tickets earlier. With the extra strain of the Olympics on travel and accommodation this year, especially in the summer months, we wanted to give our customers ample time to make arrangements.

The earlier you book, the cheaper things are, that also applies to insomnia. We are releasing the first 500 tickets for insomnia46 at the earlier bird discount of 30%, thats only £64.40!

Head over to the tickets page to book today.

Well just head over to our Facebook Page, like and share the competition photo/post and be in with a chance to win an IPad2!

What are you waiting for? Go now!

No really go! :D

Along side our weekend long speed build competition we are pleased to inform you there is something for you video makers out there too! If you make a video of your build, you could win an iPad 2! Yes you heard us right - an iPad 2! You could grab the mobile edition of Minecraft, or watch all the videos you could ever want with such an awesome prize!

How does it work? Well first of all you need to be in our Speed Build Contest, or get yourself added to the team you wish to make videos for. You then need to record a short (2-10 Minutes) video of you looking around your plot, explaining your inspiration, or how it works, or how you managed the build with your team, or anything you like really - as long as we are entertained with a decent build and the video is of reasonable quality you will be entered into the competition for the iPad 2!

All you need to do then is get people to "Love it" and collect votes for your video to have a chance at winning! There are some other rules as to the content of your video for it to be entered into the draw, but they are explained on our Minecraft Video Competition page.

Entries into the competition must be uploaded to Fileplay as per the instructions to be considered as part of the competition. You are welcome to upload your videos to your own channels, in fact we encourage it, but to make it an official entry into the competition you must also upload your video to our video host site - Fileplay. Find instructions on how it all works and make sure to read the rules on our competition page, and get some nice videos to us!

The votes will be counted on Wed Feb 29th, so get your video up as soon as possible next week!

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!