Hey folks,

We can now officially announce that our first LAN of the year will be taking place over the weekend of April 4th - 5th in Xtreme Gamer in on Lower Liffey Street! The LAN will be an overnight event kicking off at 8pm on Saturday the 4th and ending 14 hours later on the Sunday at 10am! We will have 30 high spec PC's available to us at the event.

The event is being sponsored by Komplett, OCZ and SteelSeries who will be providing a load of really cool prizes for the tournaments we'll be running, which are:

- Call of Duty 4 (5v5) - CounterStrike: Source (5v5) - Unreal Tournament III (1v1) - Dawn of War II (1v1)

There will also be a consoles area available and The PC's will have plenty of other games available but you can also bring along your own if you wish. Teams can be made up on the day if you don't have one and the winners and runners up of every tournament will receive really cool prizes such as games, mouse mats and other really cool gaming gear! Check out http://games.dcu.ie/forums/index.php?topic=2317.0 for the full details on the prizes up for grabs.

So the LAN starts Saturday 8pm April 4th and ends Sunday 10am April 5th, Admission is free for members. Places are limited so if you want to go then make sure to let us know by mailing us at gamessoc@redbrick.dcu.ie

Hope to see you all at the LAN which should be the highlight of the semester and of GamesSoc's amazing year so far! So make sure to let us know if you're coming along!

Robby, Chairperson, DCU GamesSoc http://games.dcu.ie