The lights are on
At 8 a.m. this morning, our 25-hour livestream for Extra Life 2017 came to a close. We broke our record of previous years by raising a whopping total of $61,129. All donations are going to the children's hospital Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, Minnesota.
We want to thank our generous Game Informer community who donated to see us do ridiculous shenanigans like wear dumb hats while playing games, watch Leo eat a scorpion, or see a pie thrown at me three times. I can still smell the residual whipped cream. We had an absolute blast, and we hope you did too!
We raised nearly $10,000 more than last year, where we reached a milestone of over $52,000. To watch our Extra Life 2017 stream in full, which has now been archived, head here.
What did you think of our livestream? Is there anything you'd want us to do differently the following year? Let us know in the comments below!
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Thanks for the great Live Stream and all the crazy stuff you did or got done to you. Congratulations to everyone for meeting your goal this year.
It's going to be tough to top GI's 2017 Extra Life come next year. It was a wild one!
Absolutely epic, and being for a great cause makes it that much better! Can't wait for next year!
Had a blast with this year's extra life and I even got some sweet Destiny stuff. Can't wait for next year's shenanigans :)
Oh the insanity of it all! Reverse Crusty hair cut lol! Good job raising all that money, I gotta make sure I have some set aside just so I can participate in the bids next year, looked fun and for a good cause.
I am glad you reached your milestone. I appreciate you guys doing a lot of crazy stuff for the cause and also the accidental super replay of wavy tubeman chronicles was memorable.
Congratulations on meeting the 60k goal! That was some of the greatest entertainment you guys have ever put out. I hope you'll post a highlights reel with the peppers, scorpion + bug kebab, Ellie from The Last of Us, Joe drowning, the music videos, the yugioh duel, and of course the head shavings and pies/hair pie. So much great stuff, can't wait for next year!
I was in the Youtube stream for about 10 or so hours at the end so I didn't get to see the other stuff, but what I saw was great. Some heated auctions, Kyle eating a bug, Leo streaming victorious pepper tears... Great stuff.
I'd say just do the same thing next year. Add whatever you want.
HAIR PIE! HAIR PIE! HAIR PIE!
That pie room got really gross.
I felt for Cork when he threw the pie. I am sorry man...hahah
Ellie from last of us here, had a great time watching this year. Wish I could've donated more. Love you guys. Hopefully the bens are on the gi show with their haircuts this week.
This was my first year watching extra life and it was amazing! I was watching for over 20 hours, fell asleep for a small amount of time while watching at like 5 in the morning and woke back up for the end. It was so much fun and so much money being raised is amazing, I'll never miss another extra life!