From the genius that brought you the famous 2008 masterpiece, comes this year’s Extra Life promo vid.  Please help us spread the word about this international effort to play games and heal kids at your local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital on Saturday, October 16th.  Spread the word!  Extra Life 2010 will be bigger than ever.  Thank you so much for your hard work on this video TempleDog!  You’re incredibly talented and an asset to the cause!

Podcasters listen up!  The official 2010 Extra Life audio PSA’s are now available for download over on extralife.sarcasticgamer.com so please have at ‘em!  You’ll find 3 lengths to choose from. (FULL, 60sec, and 30sec) plus mixout versions of each in case you’d prefer to direct listeners to something on your site first.  (Mixout scripts are included in the media kit).  For anyone that listens to a lot of podcasts, why not email them this audio and see if you can’t convince them to give it a run?

Thanks for the support everyone!

If you’re an avid supporter of Extra Life and you find a participating podcast, please be sure to send them an email and thank them for showing the love.  We’re doing our best to find em all and love em back too!

2010 Extra Life sponsors SPLITREASON have a limited number of Extra Life Street Team T-SHIRTS available for $10.00 for all sizes.  Group orders are encouraged to save on shipping costs.

Sarcastic Gamer’s 2nd annual PAXtra Life Party will be held Friday, September 3rd at the Fox Sports Grill in Seattle, Washington.  A record number of Sarcastic Gamer personalities will make the trip and be on-hand (barring arrest or deportation) for an awesome evening, sponsored by Sumolounge bean bags and Split Reason.  WHO’S COMING?  Listen to this.

Tickets to the event will sell out and are currently available in the Sarcastic Gamer Store.

UPDATE: Tickets are now live in the store.  Click here.  Good luck!

SEATTLE, WA – Gamers’ livers around the country quivered in fear today, as it was officially confirmed that Sarcastic Gamer’s 2nd annual PAXtra Life Party will be held on September 3rd at the Fox Sports Grill in Seattle.  This year’s event is sponsored by Split Reason and Sumolounge.com bean bags, with proceeds from the event benefiting Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals around the world through Extra Life.

TICKETS GO ON SALE @ MIDNIGHT in the Sarcastic Gamer Store!

“I’m without words to describe how excited I am,” said SG Podcast Director, Dave.  “I mean its video games, drinking, and a lot of free crap to give away.  What could be better?” [continue reading →]

The Extra Life Houston Street Team recently teamed up with Fry’s Electronics to celebreate Fry’s anniversary.  Fry’s donated the space and the hot dogs and the team spread the word about Extra Life while raising a little money as well.  Houston’s hospital partner, Texas Children’s Hospital had staff on hand to recieve donations, which totaled nearly $1000 for the day!  Great job H-TOWN!  For more information on the event, contact @TAKEOREY on Twitter!

Want to start a street team in your area?  Start here!

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Extra Life, the 24-hour video game marathon benefitting Children’s Miracle Network hospitals, is officially open for registration for all regions.  International users, who have funky and frankly inefficient addresses, will be able to register on Friday.  We’re still monkeying with that code.

Head over to the REGISTRATION Area and get started.  We’ve got a lot more functionality coming down the pike in the next few weeks.  We didn’t dare wait for that though.  There are some street teams chomping at the bit to get started, and I feared for my personal safety were I to hold out on them any longer.

Visit http://extralife.sarcasticgamer.com to learn more about Extra Life.

About Extra Life: Extra Life takes place on October 16th, 2010 and is the 3rd annual occurence of the event, which aims to raise money and awareness for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.  To date the event has raised more than $300,000 dollars to help kids live long happy lives by providing hospitals with much needed funding for equipment and programs.  100% of the money raised stays where it is raised.  In the gamer’s LOCAL CMN Hospital

As you may have heard, Extra Life has partnered with Children’s Miracle Network this year to help keep the money they help to raise, right there in their own community.

Children’s Miracle Network was founded with two simple goals

1.  Help as many children as possible by raising funds for children’s hospitals.

2.  Keep funds in the community in which they were raised to help local children.

The organization was founded by Marie Osmond and her family, John Schneider, Mick Shannon and Joe Lake.

Children’s Miracle Network’s most recognizable symbol and greatest fundraising tool is its red and yellow Miracle Balloon icon.

As of 2008, Children’s Miracle Network has raised more than $3.4 billion—most of which is donated a dollar or two at a time.

Disclosure:  Sumolounge has long been a proud sponsor of SarcasticGamer.com.  We’ve chosen to do business with Sumolounge.com because of the quality of its products and fantastic value for our readers.  I received a Sumo Sway, courtesy of Sumolounge, but am under no obligation to like it, or write about it. ‘Nuff said.

Sitting on your ass isn’t always a good time.  As many of you know, playing video games for an extended period of time can be downright PAINFUL if your rump is planted in a gimmicky gaming chair or other contraption.  A couple years ago I got my hands … er… ass on a Sumo Omni, a product that has served my family well, and survived all my kids could dish out.  So I was very excited when our friends at Sumo wrote to say something new was on the way.  Something bigger. Something stylish with…BACK SUPPORT.

Far from a bean bag, the Sumo Sway is basically furniture, without any hard parts to it.  The high-back design lets you sink in without sinking BACKWARD.  The thing comes in a vacuum-sealed box and doubles in size the moment you open the seal.  It’s substantial.  It’s huge.  It’s heavy and wants to stay put. But more importantly, its frackin’ comfortable!

I’ve logged more gaming time in the past two weeks than I have in the last two months; not once have I climbed out of this beast feeling sore or tight.  The foam inside is the perfect firmness for me (I’m a big dude) and Lesley actually approves of its aesthetics.  The thing comes in microsuede, or as I opted for, corduroy.

The price isn’t cheap, starting at $249, but compared to others out there,  Sumo is a huge value.  Plus the company ships all stuff free from factories around the world.

I can’t imagine anyone would be disappointed with this thing, unless you live in a very small apartment, or Dave’s parent’s spare room.

It makes me REALLY happy to have Sarcastic Gamer, and Extra Life associated with a company like Sumolounge.com.  Their stuff is SOLID and the company takes awesome care of our listeners and readers.  I know a pricey chair like the Sway might not be up everyone’s alley, budget-wise, but if you do decide to treat yourself to the ultimate gaming/movie/sports-watching seating, we would appreciate it if you considered working with our sponsors and friends of Extra Life, Sumolounge.com

Don’t just take my word for it.  Read exactly 1000 reviews of Sumo’s line right here!

Link:  http://sumolounge.com

What you’re seeing right now on the Extra Life website is the last-minute rush to get everything moved over to the new site, and ready to accept participants.  The 2010 event promises to be the biggest ever, which ALSO means more moving parts in this beast.  More to go haywire.  We’re almost ready to rock though.

There are lots of Extra-Life-Related announcements coming too.  Though the event doesn’t happen until October 16th, 2010, several of us have been hard at work since about a week after last year’s event, getting ready to unleash the awesome!

Standby for aforementioned awesome… this week.