The Blackwell Epiphany (PC) Review

And here we are at the end of the line with our dynamic ghost-saving heroes' final adventure. I will admit I've been looking forward to seeing how it all turned out, and really I was not disappointed. Come on in and lets talk.

Ys VIII - Lacrimosa of DANA (PC) Review


Once again we we have here another adventure with gaming's leading adventurer, Adol. (Seriously, how many characters actually claim their job title is Adventurer?) And each time we have spent time with him, I have to say I have enjoyed the hell out of it. Was this time any different? Not really... I had a blast here too. Come on in and have a peak.

Persona 5 (PS3) Review

This is a game that's been waiting probably a lot longer then it should have. When it came out, I was excited to get my hands on it... until Atlus started coming after people for streaming the game like they thought people who didn't want to have it spoiled would not have the self control to just not watch. I put a damper on it, but ultimately I did get my hands on the game and put it in my backlog for several years... enough for me to play several other games in the franchise first. But I have to say it... this one was worth the wait.

Now before we continue, I must say that offhand, your experience with this game may vary from mine. My actual PS3 died a few years ago, so while I ripped the game myself, I was playing through an emulator. But with that in mind, let's get into it.

Extra Life in 2 days!


While for many Gameday has come and gone, this weekend is generally seen as the Rainday. For those of us who couldn't play on the official day of any reason this is traditionally when we get to it, and get to it we shall. Expect Rhel and I to begin bright and early on Saturday and go right on through to Sunday morning, and we are asking you to come on in for the fun!

If you want to watch our individual streams you can find Rhel here and you can find me right here, but where would the fun be if we kept the team apart? We can both be on your screen at once with a nice little site called Multitwitch... just join us here to get a view of it all!

And what is it a view of? Well Extra Life, of course! Throughout the year as gamers, we have sponsored and asked for sponsoring support so that we can play games to help sick kids who need it most, and tomorrow we will play the 24 hour marathon that was decided for! It's also still not too late to donate and help us help the kids.. it never is. They need help no matter the day after all, so please feel free to join us and help out. If you wish to reach our team page you can do so with the graphical link below.


Thank you again and see you this weekend!

- Megabyte


Strange Brigade (PC) Review


Last year I got my group this game for Christmas with the intent that we would get together and bust up some mummies, but no one seemed ready to jump any time soon. This is not a shocker as we are PC gamers on Steam, so the idea of a backlog is far from alien to any of us. So when the dice chose it in this time of all things spooky, I decided that it would be ok to go it alone... and go it alone I did.

Now as my mouse rests, I have to say it was a pretty good choice, and while I will not do this again on my own, I will happily go again as part of that team. It was a fun time, but had that spark of just how much more fun it can be if you fight along side your friends.

Into the Dangerous World I Leapt (PC) Review

Once again we find ourselves at the end of a game picked to show off for Extra Life, but turned out to be a single sitting game. In this case, we sat down to a class project that looked like it was going to be an intriguing little horror game to play for the Halloween holidays.... I was hopeful since I have played other school project games that not only left me ecstatic, but hyped to see the game read a full release (incidentally since they treated it as an update, that game is back in my backlog now). This time, however, while I can appreciate what was attempted and even achieved, it didn't hit nearly as well.

Shadowgrounds (PC) Review


Today we get to visit an old game that hasn't spent very long in the backlog. Rather I picked it up for little more then I might have spent in the arcade to play a game of Mortal Kombat as a kid, so it was a no brainer to pick up and try. And promising to be "Doom 3 meets Smash TV" it sounded like it could be a really fun time (I love both games). I can't say I was wrong, but I also wouldn't call it as good as either individually. Come on in.

Extra Life 2024 September Update


Hi everyone and welcome! Time is flying ever so fast as we find ourselves quickly racing to the big Extra Life Marathon in November. In fact for most gamers, there is little more then a month left to bring the kids the help we can! It's getting to crunch time!

Now if you don't know what Extra Life is, allow me to explain. Gaming is a massive hobby around the world with gamers taking to their favorite past time on the regular. But what if you could do some good with that controller in your hand? No, I'm not belittling the hobby we all share: in fact we are elevating it with Extra Life. In essence, much as you would sponsor a runner in something like the world-famous Boston Marathon to help them raise money for a cause close to them, we now do the same with gaming. Extra Life is in fact doing just that by letting gamers raise donations for their local children's hospitals to help sick kids in their area. I personally have had the honor of doing this since it began some 15 years ago, and it truly is an amazing experience.

If the idea of playing games to help sick kids sounds good to you now's the time to get involved. Follow the link and sign up! The 24-hour marathon you are looking for donations to play in is on November 4th when we will globally take over the web to show the world what we can do! Of course not all of us can do it on this day... life can get in the way. I myself have family events around the same time which makes my own available time kinda iffy, so I speak as someone who uses the rain-date (the next weekend) every year and will likely do the same this year. This is not an issue since we are still all playing for the same goals: helping these sick kids. So if you need to schedule a little different, don't even give that a second though.

But still, some people are more interested in donating to help these kids rather then play themselves, and that's ok too! I mean, without you we wouldn't be able to do this. And if you wish to help us here at the Red Sector out, let me take this moment to thank who deeply and humbly.. as well as make it a little easier to find. In addition to the link in the pages list of this blog, you can also follow the link below to reach our team page. It's just a few clicks to help us help kids (basically picking which player you want to donate under since we all play for our own local hospitals).

Thank you again for all your help. We are almost there. Lets see what we can do to help these kids out.

Overlord II (PC) Review


When the dice pulled this game in, there wasn't a question in my mind. After all, I was "technically" in the middle of the series, and I honestly enjoyed the hell out of the first one, so why not? Well, the game was going to show me why not before long. Come on in.

Severed Steel (PC) Review


This is not a game I would have normally picked up, and if Epic wasn't giving it away I probably would never have played it. It just never showed me a hint of a direction or reason that would draw me in. But as a free game to deviate a bit? I've followed that path before and even found some fun on the way. This time though? Well I can't deny quality when I see it, but this one just isn't for me.

The Blackwell Deception (PC) Review

And now the initial set is complete. A long ways ago, I bought this as part of a 4-game pack with the 3 preceding titles and as of now, I have finished the pack off. So how was this last entry? Honestly pretty good, if not the best it had to offer. Still come on in and lets talk.

Ys SEVEN (PC) Review


And here we are as we continue to play through Adol's adventures. What started as a flawed classic has become a long and storied franchise of fun and exciting games and me eager to see each as they come up in the backlog. And this is where this game differs: when I finished the last one, I had run out of backlog entries, making this the first title I went out of my way to pick up to continue. Suffice it to say, I made no mistake doing this.

Wire Lips (PC) Review


As another week comes to an end, it was time to show off another game you might see played during the big Extra Life marathon. And once again the game selected was a smaller one I was able to finish up in one sitting. This time, we are much more homebound, however, as we wander the apartment while home alone. The doorbell may not be working, but that's ok. You are welcome anytime. Come on in.

The Shore (PC) Review


This is not a game that waited very long to play. Having picked it up on the Steam Summer sale, I had expected to put it aside for a lot longer. But instead thanks to another weekend game to show off for Extra Life, it jumped the line and I finished it in a single sitting. It's not a long game, but it was a long stream... I just couldn't let it go as I absolutely had a blast the entire time.

Extra-Life 2023 August Update


Hi everyone! Once again checking in as a few more months have slipped by and November is getting ever closer to us. With this month comes the big day us Lifers look forward to, the 24-hour gaming marathon!

But I'm getting ahead of myself. After all, if this is your first time on the page, you may not yet know what I'm talking about. But the answer to that is simple: Extra-Life!

But what is Extra-Life? Well, first and foremost, Extra-Life is a charity event gamers from around the world take part in. We all pick a hospital we want to play for and drive donations to help them and the sick kids they are taking care of, culminating in early November when we take on the big event: a 24-hour gaming marathon. That's right. Extra-Life is all about playing video games to help sick kids. Sound impossible? Not at all. I myself can attest to taking part in this event since it first started, but if you want the origins, I would let the site itself tell the tail far better then I ever could.

And no, you don't have to worry about maintaining things. All you need to do is sign up (button on the main page of the Extra-Life site) and ask for help from your friends, family, workplace, you name it. And any help you bring to the table yourself is also more then welcome to help the kids who truly need it the most. All resources and details you could need are right there.

Of course if you do not feel like you could do a 24 marathon, you can always cheer and help the rest of us out. If you want to help our team here directly, thank you so much! You can find our team page right here, which will include one of our streamer's stream live (if they are life at the time) and a donate button which will let you pick who to help directly (we all play for our own hospitals, so you can pick which one you want to help this way). Thank you again for any help you want to give!

But on that note, I'm afraid I have to run... have a good weekend, and see you next time. Be that here on the page or in the streams!

Thank you!

-Megabyte

Serena (PC) Review


Once again we find ourselves looking over a one-off game shown off for Extra-Life. Designed to be a short atmospheric experience, I wasn't expecting a lot out of it, but I was wrong. What it is meant to do, it is a masterpiece at, and I am REALLY glad I walked into this gut-punch of an experience.

Devil's Hunt (PC) Review


I had some high hopes for this game when it came up in the dice rolls. After all, the trailers looked amazing and promised some solid demonic combat. But it didn't take long for the game to dash my hopes of anything good being here. In fact, I knew I was in for a wild ride before I even finished setting the game up. It became obvious quite quickly that this is the kind of game I play so you don't have to.

Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell (PC) Review


I have to admit, I picked this one up shortly before finishing Saints Row IV because I was legit enjoying myself that much with the game. I already knew Agents of Mayhem was a severe departure not worth my time and the less we talk about the reboot, the better. But I was hoping to get just a little bit more of this formula and all the goodness of it out of this stand alone expansion. I will not tell you it was a waste of my time, because it wasn't. I did have fun with this one, but it just can't even begin to compare to what the previous games offered.

Slime Rancher (PC) Review


Sometimes free games mean trying something completely different then your normal style, and this would be one of those times. The farming/ranching/life sim games are not normally where I play, but when Epic Games offered it for free it was a decision that came to "why not?" And as I finish up, I have to admit, I'm kinda glad I made that choice.

System Shock 2023 (PC) Review


I waited a LONG time for this moment. Back in my high school days, I played the original title and loved every second... enough so that I was biting at the bit for the sequel and was given it as a b-day gift just before my first days of college. Yeah, my time with this franchise has been amazing, but even I had to recognize the original game did not age well. Releasing before we had a standard of how to use a mouse and keyboard together and trying to be as much a simulation as a game, the controls were clunky as hell, even for their day. Today, the original release would be nigh unplayable. So when Nightdive announced a kickstarter to remake the game, I was was excited! Don't get me wrong, Nightdive was as of yet untried and I was already watching people get nothing for their investments on this site, so I stayed on the sidelines, but I wanted to see this make it and bring the classic game to the modern gamers.

That was in 2016... seven years ago. Many years after it was expected, Nightdive delivered on their promise, and let me tell you right now, it was worth waiting for.

Blackwell Convergence (PC) Review


Today we continue the Blackwell saga, and I have to admit, what started as something I was luke-warm about has over time become a better and better series. So seeing it cycle back to an active game was already a good thing... and then I played it and smiled just that bit more...

Extra-Life 2023 June Update


Hi everyone and welcome back! I hope you are all getting as excited for Game-Day as I am... but I guess that may require you to know what I'm talking about. For those of you who don't, welcome to Extra-Life! In essence we who are taking part in it are playing games to help sick kids. If this sounds like it's impossible, I assure you it is not. I've personally had the honor of being a part of this since it started as a charity for a single hospital in Texas in honor of a young lady who died way too young fighting cancer. It has obviously grown since then, as the Children's Miracle Network has taken over and now runs it. Now, it is a global event with gamers from around the world playing to help their local hospitals.

So what does this have to do with Game-Day? To be blunt, everything. Game-Day is a 24-hour marathon every gamer taking part finishes their run with... in essence the endurance run our sponsors are paying for... kinda like people who sponsor marathon runners, but our road is made up of dice, cards, controllers, keyboards, and mice. It is a beautiful way for us to take up our hobby and help these kids who need it most.

So how can you help? Well if you yourself game and want to take up the 24-hour challenge, sign up and join us! It can be video games, board games, tabletop games, or any other gaming you desire in any combination. It can be streamed or held locally. The only rule is you go until the next morning or you drop. (And if you drop, make it up.) Most gamers will be doing this on November 4th, but we here at the Red Sector will probably doing this the following weekend as many other will. This is often referred to as the rain-date weekend for those who want to partake but can't make it for the official day... something I personally have to agree to due to family events around the same time, but whichever day you choose, it is a blast and really is for something amazing. If you can join us, as a fellow gamer, it is simply awesome.

However, if you do not wish to take on a marathon, you can still help by supporting gamers who do! We, for example have a team page for this event and would be honored for any support you can give. Each player on the team is playing for the hospital of their choice, but every dollar donated to help these kids helps, regardless of where it helps... so any help you can give, I can only thank you humbly for helping us help them. As I noted before, this is all handled by the Children's Miracle Network, and goes to a good cause. There is a FAQ here which can explain any details I simply can not as a participant not steeped in them, so please feel free to check it out. But if you would like to help us, thank you VERY much.... you can find our page in the link menu to the side of this page or right here. Once again I have to thank you very much for everything you are helping happen.

But on that note, I believe it is time for me to go... thank you for listening and again for any help you give, either by joining up yourself or helping us help these sick kids. It's all needed and it's all more then appreciated.

Thank you - Megabyte

Ys VI: The Ark of Napishtim (PC) Review


And now come to an end within my backlog. Over my years on Steam I had collected Ys games after the first two had left a pretty solid impression on me, and this was the last one to have sat waiting to be played. It won't be the end of the series for me, but I think that speaks well for this and the rest of the games so far. How well? Why not come on in and see.

Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn (PC) Review


Back in the day when the MMO genre first launched, I really didn't want any part of it. For the life of me, I couldn't justify the idea of buying a game and then paying to play with what I just bought. I finally broke that rule to play Planetside towards the end of it's life. Years later, we live in a world where most people have grown tired of this model... enough so MMOs do not really survive without having a model to get around needing a subscription fee (usually an in-game store). But here we have an exception that survived on the fees: one of two games with a big enough name they could. So is it worth it? Well? Yes and no...

Saints Row IV: Re-Elected (PC) Review


I had a great time playing Saints Row the 3rd, so when the next entry got it's turn to play, it was without hesitation I loaded it up and started playing. It did not disappoint, and in fact I think I liked it even more... but I would have to agree that it was also a less balanced experience then the previous. Step inside.

Only If (PC) Review



While this title has sat in my backlog for quite the length of time, it was not picked through normal means. If you've followed the site for a while, you know that in honor of Extra Life, I am streaming a different game every weekend. The idea is to simply show off the sheer variety of possibilities you may see gamers playing throughout the year and during the 24-hour gaming marathon that marks the end of the event. If this encourages you to join us, thank you. If you decide to help us help sick kids while watching me, I'm beyond humbled. Even if it just pushes the event out there so more know about it and spreads the word, I am happy to be of service.

That is how this game was chosen: not as one of my main games, but as something to show off as an oddity for the big event... and it was finished in a single sitting. And while sometimes these short games prove awesome and something for all to play, sometimes, it's a bit more mixed. This is one of those titles that proves the latter, and for all the actually cool things it does, it's a shame it is.

In Sound Mind (PC) Review


I walked into this game with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I had attempted to play the demo way back before it came out during one of Steam's Indie-fests and found a lot to complain about, particularly around he controls. But on the other, I was trying to play it on my media center with a controller, an interface I am not particularly happy playing first person games on in the first place and a PC that was woe-fully underpowered for it. Add to this that it was an early build being shown off and I knew I wasn't being fair to it. So when Epic gave the game away as a freebie a little ways ago, I decided to give it a second shot and pick it up. And then the dice picked it, so I shrugged, put my concerns aside and downloaded it. I'm glad I did.

Saturnalia (PC) Review


The dice have once again had their say and picked something from the void of the backlog. This time we visit an ancient village with a dark secret and an art-style unlike just about anything else I've ever played. It's been too long since we got to play something this steeped in the atmosphere of horror, and I had a great time with it, warts and all! Step inside.

Extra Life 2023 March Update


Cheers and welcome! As we move along through the year, these periodic updates are all part and part here at the Red Sector. After all, we are trying to help sick kids, so it's important we keep it in the back of our mind.

But if you are new to the site, you probably are wonder what I'm even talking about. Well welcome aboard and welcome to the magnificent cause know as "Extra Life." In essence Extra Life is a charity drive run by the Children's Miracle Network where throughout the year gamers gather to raise money to help their local hospitals. We here at the Red Sector are no different and personally, it's been my honor to be a part of this since year zero.

So how do you get involved? Well, it's easy. The Extra Life link above will lead you to the page where you can read up on the details and sign up to help sick kids! Pick your local hospital and off you go! Then come November, we hit the big push and the big celebration at the same time when we partake in "Game Day," a massive 24 hour marathon around the globe. For most gamers, this will be November 4th, but of course there will be those who need to do this on a rain-date. Due to family, this will likely be the case here as well.

So what are you waiting for? Come join the fun and feel good doing it! But if you are not a gamer yourself or would rather help us help kids, let me just say Thank you... after all, it's because of people like you that we can do this and make it matter to these kids. You can find our team page either on the side menu to this page or right here. Clicking the donate button will let you pick who to donate under and therefor which hospital to help. (This is NOT a competition... we are here to help kids, and all help is welcome. But you do have that much control over your donation, so it was worth mentioning.)

As for what we've been up to on this end? We've been playing up the games, of course. On Rhel's part, she's been very busy streaming and if you see our team page stream active, it's probably hers. (I would also recommend visiting her stream directly as well (which you can from the side menu where our stream pages are listed). She's really good and building a solid community for herself. Hell I will likely see you in there.

As for my own activity, I've taken a slower approach to streaming, basically doing so on weekends. My goal is to show off the games you may see or play yourself on the big day, never playing the same game twice. If this sounds fun to you, feel free to join me as well! Of course if we are both on, you can check it all out via a multitwitch link and however you visit, I hope to see you out there.

But on that note it is time for me to get bring this entry to a close. Thank you for listening lets make a difference for the ones who need it most.

The Supper (PC) Review


Finally time for the dice to decide what to play again, and they, as always, pick interesting titles. This would prove no different. But would it turn out to be a good one? Come on in and grab a bite while we talk about it.

Blackwell Unbound (PC) Review


Today we continue with a series of point and click games I've had in my library for a while. And while the first game was admittedly disappointing for everything I had heard, the devs appeared to learn from their mistakes and this is a much better game for it.

Ys: Memories of Celceta (PC) Review


For once we have a game that hasn't spent long in my backlog. In fact I picked it up shortly after finishing Ys III and finding a gap in my collection. It then sat on the list of games to play due to the series for about as long as possible, leaving me eager to get back into battle along side our red-headed hero. Once again I was not disappointed. Come on inside.

Saints Row: The Third (PC) Review


After seeing how bad Saints Row 2 was, I wasn't exactly the most excited to play this one. I will admit that. But seeing how much all my friends have loved this game, I did have some hope for it, so when the dice picked it, I shrugged and installed it... kinda. You see, I've been sitting on this version of the game for a long time, but a lot more recently Epic had given away the remastered version for free and I picked it up as a free upgrade. I had tried to play that version first, which turned out to be a disastrous mistake since that version would freeze solid every 20 minutes, forcing me to completely reset the PC. After doing this twice before I even reached the city, I gave up, uninstalled that version and began the download of the original release. I don't think I missed out on much, however, based on what I had seen. I still had an absolute blast.

Ziggurat (PC) Review


This game faked me out. When I bought the game, I expected a short boomer-shooter made by a small team. A fun little division to be sure. What I got was a bit more then that, and something a bit out of my wheelhouse, but something I had a lot of fun playing.

To The Moon (PC) Review


This was supposed to be an indie darling, loved by everyone. So when the dice chose it, I was happy to give it a shot. It did not feature controller support on it's store page, but it felt like something a controller would be best for so I was ready to do my usual tricks to make it work... only I didn't need to. Happily surprised to see native, support, I settled into my couch for some much needed relaxation. No, I did not expect a game with much gameplay. After all, that is now why this game is so well loved. But I expected to relax, take in a nice story for a few days, and have a descent time of it. I did not expect a broken mess to ruin the game in such a way that research not only showed fairly common, but blind luck was the only solution to get around it. Unacceptable.

Extra Life 2023 February Update


Time for an update on what we have instore for the big gaming event known as Extra-Life this year. If you do not know what Extra-Life is, you are definitely in the right place today. Extra Life is a charity event held every year where gamers from around the globe gather together to help sick kids in their local community. Run by the Children's Miracle Network, the charity has a simple process:

  1. Gamers signup throughout the year, selecting a hospital to play for.
  2. Gamers pull in donations to their pages and their team's pages (like our own) from people who  wish to help kids who need it most.
  3. On November 4th, these same gamers spend 24 hours in one massive marathon playing games both to push those donations and to celebrate what has been accomplished over the year.
This year, as we have been doing every year, The Red Sector is back in the swing, and as always, we will need your help to help these kids. And while it has been my personal honor to be here since year zero, it has never been anything short of humbling to be a part of such a big event. If you would like to help us help them, our team page is available both in the above link and right there in the pages list to the right of this blog. The page itself has a nice big donate button right at the top, even letting you select who to donate under (since teams do not need to all play for the same hospital). If instead you are inspired to join in yourself, come on in! Go to the Extra-Life page and sign up! The year is still young and the more gamers we get involved now, the more kids we can help! So either way, thank you VERY much.

On our end, however, I do have some additional news to report, even now. First, we are already over halfway to our first team goal! Within a single month, that is an awesome start, so thank you everyone who has donated already! And while I sincerely doubt $500 will be our final goal, the sooner we hit it, the sooner we can push to the next and see how far we can go! Once again, thank you so much for all your help so far and help to come!

Second and more excitingly, I would like to welcome our newest player! PastelRhel is an old friend of mine who saw what we were up to and wanted to jump in, so how could I tell her no? (Hint: I couldn't. ;) ) So she is now listed in the Site Stream listing, as well as the front-runner on the team page! So come on in and give her a warm welcome!

And finally if you want to see us all at once, we do have a way to do this. I mean there are many ways, but to make it easy, we are generating a link through Multitwitch. I will be providing updated versions as more players come online, both here and on our team site, so come on in and see us all!

And with that, I will wrap it up for now. Catch you next time, and thank you so much for all your help so far and let's see how far we can go!

The Blackwell Legacy (PC) Review


Another game that's been a long time coming. Years ago, I picked up the pack of games on a sale since I have always enjoyed the point & click genre and the series has a reputation as a particularly good set of them. Right now, I'm not so sure they will live up to it.

Coldside (PC) Review

When I saw the trailer for this game, it had my attention. When I read further to find out it was inspired by the SCP project, I threw it on my wishlist in Steam. And last year as part of the winter sale, I picked it up for my backlog. And like The Old Man, it refused to stay contained for too long. And also like that creature, encountering it at first had me nervous that I had made a terrible mistake considering it doesn't have a real title screen (why there is no title picture for this review) and the menu's language selection using non-English characters. But unlike that particular SCP, this first impression proved very incorrect and I'm happy it visited my gaming time.

Ys: The Oath in Felghana (PC) Review


I think I can honestly say I now have some history with this game, having played through three other tiles in the franchise so far. And while this seems to be "more of the same" from the set, I don't think that's such a bad deal. In fact, I've already lined up the next one. Come on inside.

Decay: The Mare (PC) Review


I've always been a sucker for stories where your mind is as much the enemy as anything. After all, anything can happen in your head, right? So of course this game would find it's way into my collection. And after playing through it, I can honestly say I'm glad it did.

LiEat (PC) Review


Curiosity drove me to this game a long time ago. After all, what could the ability to eat lies lead to? And while I can not say this was an epic adventure, I can at least say it was worth the time I spent with them.

This game is not just a single title like I expected when I first installed it, but a trilogy of short indie RPG titles that come bundled and can only be installed together. As such this review will cover each in turn with one section to cover any bugs found across the collection.

Shin Megami Tensei V (Switch) Review

What can I even say about this game? Back when the Switch was announced this was one of the titles that drew my attention. I have been a fan of the franchise for many years now, starting with my first taste towards the end of the PS2 era with a copy of Persona 3 and there was no looking back. Since then I have gotten into as many of the franchise as I could get my hands on and while I know I will never be able to collect them all, I wasn't going to miss this. I had a the console ready and this was the second game I would play on it (and the third I would finish). I don't know how many more games I will play on this machine just yet, but this was definitely a worthy journey to get one for.

Extra Life 2023 begins!


Wow does time fly. 15 years ago, the owner of a now defunct gaming site shared the tragedy of a family he was close with, literally breaking down in the middle of their weekly podcast. I should know, I was driving into work listening to it, and it was hard to even hear. Wanting to honor the little girl they lost, he created a one time charity event to say thank you to the hospital that helped the young lady through her struggle... and it was an absolute success as we rallied to the cause in a way he probably never expected.

The community rallied so strongly, it took all of two weeks before a sequel run would be announced for the next year... and every year after growing bigger and bigger into the global charity event we now know as Extra Life. It's been my absolute honor to see it and be a participant from the very beginning... and today we announce we are coming back to do it again.

If you don't know what Extra Life is, it is a charity event that is run by the Children's Miracle Network every year where gamers from around the world play games and collect donations to help sick kids. We each pick a hospital we directly play for and all donations are handled by CMN directly, and while we all play from time to time through the year, it all culminates to a 24 marathon to celebrate and push the drive to it's max in November. This year the big day for most will be November 4th (so those playing on the official day will be going 25 hours thanks to daylight savings). 

If you wish to help us help these kids, you can on our official Extra Life drive page. The site collects donations from the first of January to the last of December, so if you wish to help but miss the big day, it's ok. It's frankly never too late to help the kids.

But what if you want to help more directly? Well sign right up and join the fight for the ones who need it most! You will be doing with your hobby something amazing. Game on and feel good helping others while you game! Like everyone involved world-wide, we will be routing for you!

In either case, thank you for listening and I hope to see you out there!