Gaming for Charity....

[Dess]

I thought this was amazing.... and a GREAT idea....


On Saturday, October 16, 2010, a team of IGN editors will stay awake for 24 hours and play videogames for charity. It's like a marathon, but nobody's nipples chafe if they do it right.

How does this work? Well, hopefully, you pick your favorite editor from the ever-expanding list below and offer up some money to support their participation. A dollar, $20 – it doesn't matter. Your donation is added to the Team IGN.com pot, the editors stay up and play games until their eyes hurt, and then Extra Life and the Children's Miracle Network gives the money IGN has earned to the Children's Hospital and Research Center, Oakland.

After you donate – or even if you can't donate – don't be shy about joining us in our quest to rock Extra Life's socks. You can register and join team "IGN.com" in a few easy clicks. From there, start earning donations for our team and buy some Jolt Cola for Saturday, October 16th.
The experience doesn't end after you leave this page, though – we'll probably be Ustreaming the event from our office, there will podcasts, and Team IGN.com will be playing online that Saturday so that you can come pwn fools with the editors you know so well.

We're staying up to play some games no matter what, but your help is the real difference maker in Extra Life. If you can, please give us a hand


I'm not spamming.....I promise.... this just seems like a really awesome idea... so here's the link if you guys wanna donate...

IGN for Charity: The 24-Hour Marathon - Games Feature at IGN (http://games.ign.com/articles/111/1115038p1.html)

We should do something like this.... with fellas like subb and jak who stay awake for like 4 days straight it'd be epic win!!!!! lol

[thedeparted]

Yeah that'd be cool, but me and subb really don't do that anymore. We've been doing regular people hours lately. Although i need to break that cause it's annoying

[Dess]

lol.. but you both could if you needed to.... and that's the point of doing it for charity. =P

[thedeparted]

well yeah i guess i could manage

[LiNuX]

We should be able to do something like that. I'd be up for it but not anytime soon. Maybe around Thanksgiving break when I know I have a few days off. We could find a charity to support and I could get more information on what we might have to do to make things work. So far I like the idea, it's just down to the planning and timing and etc...

[Dess]

I'm always down for doing something for the community. I'll help organize and plan.... hard part is gonna be finding a charity.

[LiNuX]

We'd also have to think of the game, system, time, date, etc...and who's going to be involved.

[Dess]

We can leave that up to a vote and volunteers... we'd have to find a way to promote it too... I think most of the regulars would be down.. and the game choice shouldn't be too hard to figure out either... most of the regulars are already getting games based on what we can play with each other.... Like... I got UT3 today to play with Subb, Jak, Lemons, and Rai.... L4D2 to play with you and jango.... and Gears to play with Shixx, Subb, Bob, and slew of others... name the game, we can make it happen.

The timing is going to be complicated... of course.. who is going to the money....

[Iceskater101]

yeah damage is right the game wouldn't be to hard
and if we were raising money for charity by just playing some gears of war
then count me in :D

[Subb]

im down for pretty much wutever hours of the day... count me in fellas

[Dess]

SWEET!!! I'm getting kind of excited that this is getting such a positive response.

XD
Gaming makes Damage happy..
Doing things for others makes Damage very happy....
so Gaming for the sake of helping others.... Makes me uber awesome happy.

*does happy dance*