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

We Play for the Children Tomorrow

The big day has arrived! Tomorrow morning I will embark on my 24-hour gaming marathon as I play video games to help sick kids who really need it. This is, after all, what Extra Life is about: gamers from around the world doing just that, and we can always use your help! First of all, if you can show up during the event, please do! I will be online from Saturday morning till Sunday morning, hyped up on gaming, the cause and possibly a 5-hour energy at the end, so please stop in.

Last weekend was the main gameday and as of then, Extra Life has raised over $9,000,000 for the year, but it's not over till we say it's over! (Ok ok, donations are taken right up till the end of the year.) And tomorrow we take our dive to add to that number, and this is where you come in.... joining us to show your support is always a good thing and I will be happy to see you during the adventure. Hell, I even have several multiplayer games ready to go and may well install a few more today or in the background while the marathon is on depending on how it all goes down so we may even meet up in the virtual space. But if you want to help directly, you can also donate to the cause with the link above or on the Team link on the right-side of this page while hanging out with us. It's all there and all handled by the children's miracle network, and any help you can give is greatly appreciated. I am humbled and honored to be able to say I've been part of this event since it began for a single hospital in Texas and expanded into this world-wide phenomenon and can't wait to see you all there.

Thank you again for another amazing year of gaming for the good of others.

Extra Life Updates for September 2022

The year is fast reaching it's end and with it the big event gamers around the world look forward to every year: Extra Life. I am no exception to this and the big day is coming fast. It's less then 2 months away on November 5th!

So what is Extra Life? It is several things at this point. It is a charity event that was started over a decade ago in the honor of one young child who lost her fight with cancer. It is a year-long drive with the Children's Miracle Network to help children who face similar (and other serious) medical issues no one that young should ever have to face around the world. It is a moment of unity where gamers around the world unite to do great things with our selected hobby. It is a 24 hour marathon where the gamers involved do just that... play for 24 hours striaght in the name of gaming and the kids we wish to help. And above all, it is a chance anyone can take to seriously help those of us who need it most. If you game in any way at all (not just video games) and wish to join us, please follow the link above for more information and to sign up. 2022 is winding down as is our chance to do something before 2023 rolls around.

If Nov. 5th doesn't work for you, you can pick any weekend really. Many will do their 24 hour run the weekend before and the weekend after to fit around their schedule. All you need to do is bring it to the table and all the donations you can to help us help the kids.

And speaking of donations, some people are just not into the hobby or have the time at all, but still want to help. You can help by donating with your choice gamer to help them help their chosen hospital. (did I mention the donations you raise go to the hospital you are playing for? I didn't? Well they do!) If we are those gamers, you humble us... and thank you so much! You can help us by following the link to our team page and donating there or clicking here to reach it and you can see us play on twitch! Our channel broadcasts right inside the page too! Once again thank you so much and see you soon!

Extra Life July Update

Hi everybody and welcome in! Once again, it's time to speak up about Extra Life as we move closer and closer to the big day when gamers around the world will play for 24 hours, showing it to the world. But why? Well up till that moment, we are collecting donations to help sick kids in our local hospitals and then playing to honor those we are trying to help and those who helped up do so! Gamers doing what we do to help the kids who need it most.

Does this sound good to you? Do you play? Video games? Board games? Card games? Collectible figurine games? It doesn't matter what you do, helping kids with it is easy!

1) Get on the site extra-life.org and click the signup button. The process is really easy and the whole event is handled by the Children's Miracle Network. While you do this, you can choose the hospital you are playing for (and as such, where the donations you bring in will go), start a team, join a team (if you know where you want to go) or even go solo. No pressure here at all since you can always make a join a team later if you don't know what you want to do here.

2) Talk to family and friends! These are the people most likely to back you and help you help the kids. You can also always talk to people at work or even put up links in your social media. Do you stream? Bring it up there too! Just get the word out.

3) On November 5th, join gamers around the world where from 9 AM on Saturday till 9 AM on Sunday we will be taking our victory lap in the form of a 24 hour gaming marathon! Can't make that day? That's ok. Every year many gamers go the weekend before or after as alternate days. 

Don't stream? That's ok too... many gamers make local events of the day and in fact I have had the honor of sitting in at a hobby shop where a group got together to play D&D for the time, donating cash during the campaign to get small and large cheats while playing. It was quite clever and no cameras were needed... just to give you ideas.

But what if you don't game? Well that's ok too, you can still help out. On the link in step one is a donate button you can use to help out in general, or you can find your favorite gamers or teams of them to donate to, helping them out with their specific hospital. For example, if you go to the pages section of this page you will find a link to my own team, and we would be honored for the help.

But the point is we are doing this for the kids... and really it's amazing what we as a gaming community have done for them and will continue to do for them. Thank you for reading and see you out there!

Extra Life 2022 June Update

Hi everyone! Almost half the year has gone by and we have only begun to fight! If you have been a part of Extra Life, seriously take a bow. You are part of one of the biggest ways gamers have been able to make the world better for those who truly need it. If you haven't joined yet and want to use your hobby to help sick children (around the world or even just around you), now's the time to sign up!

If you do not know what Extra Life is, it is a charity event where gamers raise money via the Children's Miracle Network and do so by playing video games. Donations are all handled by CMN and culminates to a 24 hour gaming marathon in November. The official day this year is Nov 5th, but this is nothing if not flexible: Many will and usually do take a rain date, making the weekend after another big one... as well as doing marathon drives on the way! To take part, just go to the site and click the sign up button on the page (or you can follow the link above. It's really that simple, and it isn't just video games. Any kind of gaming works from card and board to VR. Just let the world see what you are doing so they can cheer you on and help you support the hospital you are playing for. I myself have been playing since year zero when it was not so much a massive push by the gamer community, but a single website playing to honor a single lost soul (Rest in Peace, Victoria) and help out the hospital that was there for her during her fight with cancer. It felt amazing then back in 08, and it still does now, so I implore you to join us!

And if you don't feel you can do this, or just don't play games, that is ok. You can also help by donating. On the main page there is also a donate button to just help in general... or you can find your favorite gamers and donate to them directly. But if you would like to help us, I have to humbly thank you. You can find our team here and on the side of this site in the pages list. We even have my person twitch stream linked so while there, you might well see some of the games you will see on the big day so get excited! (We even have the link to the team page on the twitch page so if you join us during game time, you can find and help us out there too!)

Either way, thank you for listening, and hope to see you on the big day.

Extra Life 2022 Begins!

While I have been at this since January, we are officially jumping into the new year's Extra Life event now at the site. First I am thankful as hell to be able to say this each and every year and I do not see that changing in the future. But what is Extra Life? Well if you have been with us for a while you probably already know this, but for the newbies (and welcome by the way), it is a charity event where gamers around the globe come together to raise money and help sick kids. Every year we all pick a hospital we play for and all donations made in any given player's name will go to that hospital, and end the run with a 24 hour gaming marathon. It's all run by the Children's Miracle Network and simply an amazing way the gaming world can help those who need it most. Does this sound like something you would want to be a part of? Then why not sign up at www.extra-life.org? If you would rather help another gamer playing... (I mean we are not here to dominate this, we are here to help kids) you can find all the gamers playing there, too.

But if you wish to help us, first I have to thank you. Any help we personally can bring to the table is humbling, and you can find the link to our team page both here or in the links on the right-hand-side of our page.

And finally I do have a bit of news to give you all. In addition to the big event, there is a relatively new competition called Extra Life United which has been happening over the past few years. This will be the first time in a while where the event will have a live component as well as an online one. In a few short weeks gamers will be competing to bring donations to their hospital in Orlando Florida (April 12-15) and will likely be broadcast on the Extra Life Twitch channel. We will be hosting it as soon as we see this going on, but we encourage you to follow them too.

As of for the big event, most will be gaming on Nov 5th. This is not set in stone outside the main Extra Life channel itself, so you can expect gamers to spread out a little bit, but we will try to hold to it ourselves. If we need to adjust, we will let you know. 

And with that, I think it is time to get moving. Thank you for reading and see you out there!