Multiplay Insomnia i54 in a nutshell

Thermaltake made an appearance, showing off some of its new TTEsports gear.

Gigabyte too had some gear on show, though arguably it's main focus was its charity raffle which is raising money for Zoe's Place baby hospice. 

As far as games go, there weren't many big reveals – though the main stage shows had some great talks with top-name developers. However, there is a booth full of systems set up to play the new Mortal Kombat.

Maker of Runescape, Jagex, has a decent sized booth. Since it's scrapped the development of the its Transformers Universe MMO, it's instead pushing its card battler Chronicle and the cubic shooter, Block and Load.

Logitech has a big booth at this iSeries and this time it's brought a bus. Cosy up to one of the attending staffers and you might even be able to bag yourself a VIP pass for the upstairs area, which will feature a bar and other extras exclusive for kiss assers. And handsome journos of course.

As usual, one of my favourite areas of the whole LAN was the Indie Zone, which features some great up-and-coming titles from faces new and old. Unfortunately the guy behind one of the most advertised games, Raging Justice, was having some technical difficulties when we swung by, so hopefully it will be sorted by the time you get there.

For those looking for some manic brawling action, there is a booth set up with Gang Beasts. If you haven't played it yet, I'd urge you too, but if you have and you enjoyed it, Mutiny is another game in a similar vein. It might have failed its Kickstarter, but it didn't fail to capture our attention.

For those wanting something a little more tactical and engineer…ical, then Medieval and Space engineers are also available to try out.

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