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.
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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!
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)
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
We scrape together the dedicated few who are staying up all night to play some Smash. We've got all the stages and characters unlocked, so get ready for some mash-up madness.
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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