I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon, and I’m already running behind. We’ve got 10 teenage boys locked in varying forms of mortal combat.

Our team, The Vidiots, have raised $383 for sick kids so far. You can still donate, if you like – we can always use more sick kids; they’re so inspiring! This hour we’ve played:

• Some Super Smash Bros. Wii-U to get things started!
• Scattered around various PCs there was some The Binding of Isaac, Fallout 3 and HearthStone. A few of the phones also saw Puzzle and Dragons and Fallout Shelter.
• The SteamLink has been a huge success – when connected to PlayStation Dual Shock 4 controllers (the Steam Controller itself isn’t getting great reviews, sorry Valve). There was some hectic action in Lethal League and Skull Girls.
• The was also some weirdness. Several people were introduced to the bizarre The Static Speaks my Name and somebody brought a Sega Genesis and subjected a small, but dedicated contingent to the marvels of Shaq-Fu.

We’re heading towards lunch soon. Here’s some eye candy for you:

More to come!

I’ll be not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon at, with any luck, about an hour delay. Amazingly, nearly everybody that planned to show up, has. More amazingly for a group of teenagers, they were all on time. There are still a couple of holdouts, but we’ve got more than enough to make this count!

Our team, The Vidiots, have raised $383 for sick kids so far. You can still donate, if you like – we can always use more sick kids; they’re so inspiring!

Here are a few shots of our lovely home before the invasion.

Weep for us, people! Weep for us!

We’re getting ready to kick off our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! In a little over 12 hours we will be invaded by nearly a dozen 17 year-old boys. They will fill our humble home with the sights, sounds and smells (oh, dear lordy me, the smells!) of charity! And gaming. Lots of gaming.

Our team, The Vidiots, have currently raised $345 for sick kids. You can still donate, if you like – we can always use more sick kids; they’re so inspiring!

We’ve got a PS4, a PS3, a Wii-U, a regular-old Wii and an impressive tower of board, card and dice games. Our brand new Steam Link is ready to bring PC games to our TV and a proud, lonely PlayStation Vita stands united with a short-stack of Nintendo DS’s for private play. Controllers are charged and stacked like cordwood. Plentiful snacks are at hand! Caffeinated beverages are standing by!

Folks. We. Are. Ready!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 20 hours in and still playing! Well, most of us are playing. We’re playing slowly and sloppily, but we’re still playing.

We’re playing:

• More of The Binding of Isaac. They’re finding some really weird things in that basement.
• A little Grand Theft Auto V was played, quietly, off to the side.
• Phones saw some Puzzle and Dragons. Well my phone saw some. Damn that fifth challenge dungeon!

Here are some pictures!

More to come!

I’m not-live blogging our Extra-Life 2015 Marathon! Our team, The Vidiots, is 22 hours in and still playing! Well some of us are playing. We’ve lost more than a few. The survivors are still plugging along, but for how much longer is anybody’s guess.

We’re playing:

• Somebody decided that Kirby and the Rainbow Curse was necessary. That was retired for Super Mario Sunshine after a few minutes.
• The current champion got further in Undertale than ever before… and then died horribly.
• We ended up on the PS3 for a while and sampled some of the smaller, quieter games like Rain and the amazing The Unfinished Swan. We also dusted off PixelJunk Monsters, a classic tower defense game.
• Despite being nearly comatose, we ended having a great pass-the-controller session with the amazingly high-speed twitch game Race the Sun on PS4. This is exactly the kind of game that you don’t want to play with compromised reflexes, but we had a blast.

Here are some pictures!

We’re almost to the finish line!