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Thank You For Helping Us Raise Over $38,000 For Extra Life 2015
Update: The Game Informer community somehow outdid itself this year. You all helped us knock it out of the park by contributing $38,108 to Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare via Extra Life at the time of publishing this article, well over double our goal from last year. It makes sense the GI community would pull off such an awesome feat, since our Extra Life efforts started as a community-driven event with heroes like Zach Pligge, Jeremy Brown, and Extra Life’s very own Jack Gardner. After Game Informer started getting officially involved with these livestreams, we’ve spent the last several years trying to put on a bigger, dumber show for you all, complete with worthwhile rewards to help drum up support for a worthy cause. We really did it this year, so everyone pat themselves on the back. The results prove that we’re on the right track, and we promise something even better next year. Thank you so much to everyone who made this possible, from all the guests on the livestream to the folks watching and donating at home. You’re all awesome and we don't regret any of the too many ghost peppers. Your rewards are on the way and we owe you one script-reading of George A. Romero’s canceled “Resident Evil” film.
Above: Watch the full archive of the Extra Life stream.
Original Story: Fall is upon us in Minnesota, and the leaves are changing colors and the wind is beginning to bite once again. At least, that's what people tell us about autumn as we shutter ourselves inside to catch up on all the year's amazing games. The annual 24-hour Extra Life charity marathon is always a terrific opportunity to hole up and ignore the real world while streaming all the fun for a good cause. You can join us by enlisting to raise money in Team Game Informer, or by tuning into our livestream to join in the fun, win prizes, and contribute to a great cause.
Click the "tune in" link below to watch our livestream on Twitch, or you can check out the stream on YouTube.
Game Informer is back at it again when Extra Life 2015 officially kicks off on November 7 at 8 a.m. Central. We'll be broadcasting on Twitch and YouTube for a full 24 hours. Our goal this year is to raise $25,000 for Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare here in St. Paul, Minn. If we reach the $15,000 mark, we promise to finish the livestream with a live script reading of the supposedly awful rejected movie written by George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead).
We had a blast during our 2014 Extra Life livestream, and hope you'll join us again. Check out all the crazy fun we have planned in the schedule below, but also be sure to look further down the page at some prizes viewers can win, some by contributing generous donations.
On top of that overarching goal, we'll also have other enticements and rewards for generous donors. Remember, all the money raised goes to help kids in need:
Donation Craziness:
- Hats! We'll have a selection of stupid hats you can donate $50 to have us wear!
- Donate $100 during our Super Mario Maker segment and we'll playtest your Mario level, complete with level-design critique and a review score.
- Donate $100 during our Rock Band 4 jukebox jam session to select what song we play. Donate a total of $200, and you can choose who sings it.
- Donate $200 to have a picture of your choosing plastered on our dynamic Wall of Heroes.
- Donate $300 to choose what we play for a 30-minute block (Assuming it's in the GI vault) [10 available, first come, first served]
- Tim will eat a raw ghost pepper on the spot if you donate $500.
- Guest star on a special episode of Replay! Includes a tour of our office in Minneapolis, Minn. Donate $1,000 to earn this prize. [1 available]*
- Dinner with Game Informer! Includes a tour of our office in Minneapolis, Minn. Donate $1,000 to earn this prize. [2 available]*
*Travel and lodging not included with the Game Informer dinner or special Replay donation prizes. Winners will select a handful of Game Informer editors they want to eat/record Replay with, and we'll do our best to line up everyone's schedules.
Game Giveaways For Donors!
We have dozens of download codes for great games to giveaway to donors during the length of our 24-hour livestream. Check out the list below!
- Xbox One Elite Bundle
- Xbox One
- Xbox 360
- Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain
- Resident Evil HD Remaster
- Resident Evil Revelations 2 (Complete Season)
- DmC Devil May Cry: Definitive Edition
- Mega Man Legacy Collection
- Wasteland 2: Director's Cut
- Saint's Row IV Re-Elected & Gat Out of Hell
- Metro Redux
- More!
| Saturday, November 7 (Schedule listed in Central Time) |
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| 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Call of Duty: Black Ops III Zombies! with Tim Turi and Ben Reeves We fire up of one of the Call of Duty series' most popular modes to pop some power-up gumballs in our mouths and pop some zombies' heads off. |
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | Speedrunning Pokémon Blue, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, and Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow with Tim Turi, Ben Hanson, and special guests Tony Ogbot and Seckswrecks Local Minnesota speedrunners join us to blaze through a handful of old-school classics within two hours, should everything go according to plan |
| 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. | Donate To Choose What We Play! with Ben Reeves, Tim Turi, Kim Wallace, and Jeff Cork Two donors who contribute $300 each to Extra Life get to choose what Team Game Informer plays for two half-hour slots. Will the chosen games be amazing or awful? |
| 1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | RPG Grind Time Featuring Fallout 3 with Kim Wallace and Ben Reeves Bethesda's next Fallout game is nearly upon us, so what better time to boot up the 2008 classic, Fallout 3? Watch as Kim and Ben reflect on one of the most beloved RPGs in gaming history. |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Super Mario Maker Donation Playtesting with Tim Turi, Brian Shea, and Andy McNamara We play, critique, and rate your Mario Maker levels! Donate $100 and we'll boot up your hand-crafted level and offer live feedback! |
| 3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Dysfunctional Family Feud with Ben Reeves, Kim Wallace, Ben Hanson, and Brian Shea Can the close bonds of the Game Informer family withstand the strenuous trial of an hour of the classic game show? |
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Getting Stupid With The Jackbox Party Packs with Tim Turi, Ben Hanson, Jeff Cork, Ben Reeves, and more! The hilarious Jackbox games are all about cleverly lying to your friends and coming up with the stupidest jokes possible. Also, diffusing tons of bombs and the awful drawings of Drawful. |
| 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. | Donate To Choose What We Play! with Tim Turi, Jeff Cork, and Andy McNamara Two donors who contribute $300 each to Extra Life get to choose what Team Game Informer plays for two half-hour slots. Will the chosen games be amazing or awful? |
| 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Halo 5: Guardians Multiplayer with Ben Reeves and Wade Wojick The latest Halo game is out, and we've set aside some time to dive deep into its multiplayer offerings. Can you find us online and take us out? |
| 8:00 pm - 9:00 p.m. | Donate To Choose What We Play! with Tim Turi, Jeff Cork, Ben Reeves, and Andy McNamara Two donors who contribute $300 each to Extra Life get to choose what Team Game Informer plays for two half-hour slots. Will the chosen games be amazing or awful? |
| 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. | Rock Band 4 Jam Hour Donation Jukebox with Brian Shea, Ben Reeves, Kim Wallace, Tim Turi, and more! Choose what the GI crew plays from Brian's massive Rock Band 4 library by donating $100. Donate $200 total to choose who sings! |
| 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m. | Game Informer Plays Pictionary With The Chat with Tim Turi, Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, Jeff Marchiafava, and the GI Interns Join the Extra Life livestream chat to shout out topic ideas for us to attempt to draw in an hour-long Pictionary throw down. |
| 11:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. | Let's Play The Hilariously Bad "Navajo" Chapter From Beyond: Two Souls with Tim Turi, Jeff Cork, and Ben Hanson Quantic Dreams recently announced the sci-fi adventure, Detroit: Become Human. We return to the developer's last title to relive an unforgettably awful story line. "You did it, Jodie!" |
| Sunday, November 8 | |
| 1:00 a.m. - 2:00 a.m. | Donate To Choose What We Play! with Tim Turi, Jeff Cork, Ben Reeves, and Ben Hanson Two donors who contribute $300 each to Extra Life get to choose what Team Game Informer plays for two half-hour slots. Will the chosen games be amazing or awful? |
| 2:00 a.m. - 3:00 a.m. | Getting Stupid *Again* With The Jackbox Party Packs with Tim Turi, Ben Hanson, Ben Reeves, the GI interns, and more! The hilarious Jackbox games are all about cleverly lying to your friends and coming up with the stupidest jokes possible. Also, diffusing tons of bombs and the awful drawings of Drawful. |
| 3:00 a.m. - 4:00 a.m. | The Wii Hours with Tim Turi, Kyle Hilliard, and more! By this time in the morning we need to shake things up to keep us awake. Sometimes that means literally "shaking things up" with some of the Wii's more questionable motion-controlled games. |
| 4:00 a.m. - 5:00 a.m. | Donate To Choose What We Play! with Tim Turi, Ben Reeves, and Wade Wojick Two donors who contribute $300 each to Extra Life get to choose what Team Game Informer plays for two half-hour slots. Will the chosen games be amazing or awful? |
| 5:00 a.m. - 6:00 a.m. |
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Slobberknocker with Kyle Hilliard, Ben Hanson, Tim Turi, and the GI interns |
| 6:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. | ***Live Script Reading of the Abandoned Resident Evil Film*** with Tim Turi, Ben Reeves, Ben Hanson, Kyle Hilliard, Jeff Cork, and more If donors help us raise $15,000 by 6:00 a.m., the GI crew will perform a live script reading of George A. Romero's canceled (and supposedly awful) Resident Evil film. |
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