Extra Life 2014 Schedule





Yep, it's that time again! Time to raise money for Children's Miracle Network and hopefully entertain you guys and gals for 24 hours starting on Saturday, October 25th 2014 @ 2pm (Pacific time).
100% of your donation goes to helping sick kids in need... plus if you donate at least $24 you can claim a time slot for a game or co-op gaming session! Click me for details!
Cheers!

1. 2pm
2. 3pm - Left 4 Dead 2 co-op with Hat (inc Arais and Pac)  **POSTPONED**
3. 4pm  
4. 5pm - Viewer's Choice with Pactra  (public poll for which co-op game to play)
5. 6pm
6. 7pm - The Binding of Isaac (from Arais, time to get grossed out!)
7. 8pm - The Evil Within (from Lea, time to get scared!) **music requests closed**
8. 9pm  
9. 10pm  
10. 11pm  
11. 12am
12. 1am
13. 2am  
14. 3am
15. 4am
16. 5am
17. 6am
18. 7am
19. 8am
20. 9am
21. 10am
22. 11am 
23. 12pm
24. 1pm

Games to play but no specific time requested:

Music requests are open during hours not closed above.
To play a song, type this into the chat window:
!songrequest YouTube URL
(For example: !songrequest http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bZkp7q19f0)


Please do not request a song that is offensive, not music, and no longer than 6 minutes long.

I'm ready! Is it Friday yet?

Moving Forward...

Extra Life weekend was crazy, exciting, awesome, very tiring... and worth every moment. Except the part when I had a tummy ache from consuming too much junk food and caffeine, lol. This year I raised $815 to help out sick kids! Thanks to everyone who supported me!
If you caught the stream, hopefully it was fun to watch. The task of creating a highlights video won't be an easy one but it'll be fun.
My friends and I ended up playing lots and lots of Happy Wars all night... and I'm impressed how fun that is (with friends) for a free to play game. I played a cleric class 99% of the time and running around trying to heal people. Brought me back to my WoW days of playing a resto druid.

I sometimes miss WoW but that feeling passes quickly as I remember why I quit in the first place, lol. Guess I just like being a healer in the group. :D

Unfortunately while I was trying to set things up and start my Extra Life marathon, my GTASC team Pixel Chicks were struggling to stay afloat. I felt bad that I wasn't able to postpone the stream to try and grab more fast points to keep us in the competition but alas... we didn't make it. You've gotta give to us that making it 13th out of 120 or so teams is impressive! Go girls! I'm totally game for participating in GTASC next year if the stars align.

An all girls team would be super fun again, give the boys a run for their money... or something like that. 

Today as I'm typing this up, I'm "playing" the Karaoke app on my Xbox... and by that I mean there's a mic up to a fan, lol. The 6 hour pass is half off ($2.49US) until Nov 7th so I might as well get some quick achievements for GSL. I'm on a super casual team and I just joined to help beat PS3T in the cross site competition. It's number of achievements vs number of trophies.

I have Cars here that I still need to try to finish (I dislike racing games so I'm dragging a bit) and TMNT is sitting here from GameFly. No idea what it's like but everyone says it's stupid easy... how hard can it be? 
I also bought The Wolf Among Us but haven't played it yet. I keep waiting for Disney Fairies (Win 8) to update on my laptop to get the latest episode... I haven't updated my OS to Win 8.1 (yet) so not sure if it'll ever be available to me if I don't. 
It's hard trying to get as much gamerscore as you can while being really picky about games. I don't like platformers, racing, fighting, versus multiplayer, sports games... yeah, lol. I didn't grow up playing platformers like many old school gamers out there, my first real video game was a turn based RPG, Final Fantasy VIII.  Figured I'd try and teach myself by playing platformy kid games but I find them incredibly frustrating. Perhaps I'll learn the patience to push through the pain like I did with Phineas and Ferb... but until then I took Smurfs 2 out of my GameFly queue lol.

After GSL is done with (Dec 1st), I still plan on changing my gamertag so I'll keep everyone posted so you don't see some random name on your list, lol. I like when people call me "Amy" instead of "vita" lol. I'm still doing the "gather your favorite words" idea and looking at unique combos. My bf's gamertag, along with several of his friends, have a regular name type of format so I'd like the same thing. I want to make sure the tag will match an available PSN ID, even though I hardly touch my PS3 anymore. Sucks that Sony won't just let you change your name on there but starting over doesn't sound too bad, I have games on my tag that I didn't boot up and you can't delete 0 trophy games. 
Once my Xbox One gets here I'll be slobbering all over it. Zoo Tycoon and Project Spark I'm super excited about! I think the bf wants to play Dead Rising 3 with me so I'll pick that up too. I still have a ton of 360 games I still want to play so hopefully I can just plug that into the hdmi input on the XB1. That reminds me that I need to order a play and charge kit too! Ahhhh new shinies! November 22nd GET! 
I'm listening to Pandora and this song just came on... enjoy!

(it helps drown out the Karaoke cover and children's songs lol) 

Sneak Peak - Extra Life 2013

The two Gamefly discs are Blur and XCOM... get your donation and request in before it's too late, kupo!  ^.^

Calling all gamer pals! Extra Life!

This year I am participating in Extra Life for my fourth year in a row. 
Extra Life is a 24 hour video game marathon to raise money for Children's Miracle Network.
Save the date, November 2nd!

Each year keeps getting more and more awesome and this year is no exception.
I always look forward to this event and even live broadcast the 24 hour gaming marathon on twitch.
http://www.twitch.tv/vitaminamy
All are welcome to come and watch... better yet, I'll be hosting two gaming sessions for friends to join in the fun! 
This year will be Happy Wars and Minecraft, both on Xbox 360.

• Happy Wars will be co-op mode and will start at noon (Pacific time).
• Minecraft will start at 6pm (Pacific time) and the goal is to build bridges going as far as possible and with no real purpose. It's all for fun. Falling off is not allowed. 

http://vitaminamy.blogspot.com/2013/07/extra-life-2013-schedule.html
Donation isn't required to join any of the above events.
However, if you'd like to donate because you're an awesome person, here's the link: 
http://extra-life.org/participant/amyk 
For a donation of $24 or more, you can pick out a game for me to play for an hour! (yes, even Kinect and indie games... just let me know in advance so I can rent/buy the game.)

Optional voice chat will be over Skype since Xbox party chat isn't loud enough for the stream.

If you're interested in joining me for one/both of these events, hit me up so I can save you a spot! If you aren't on my Xbox friends list and really want to play with us, let me know (comment below) then shoot me a friend request on Xbox. 

Here's a highlight video from last year:

Helping out my local Children's Miracle Network hospital while playing video games? Done.

Windows 8 on my Nexus 7? What?

I have a Windows 8 laptop... so far I've played all of the Win8 games on my gamercard with it.
However I've avoided a few games because I kept hearing that they're not great playing with a mouse... touchscreen is highly recommended.
Getting a Surface Pro isn't in my budget so I just moved along.

However... I had no idea something called "Splashtop" existed until yesterday.
I'm so out of the loop! 
This allows you to remotely access your PC from a compatible iOS or Android device. 
Hey! I have a Nexus 7 tablet! I dusted off the poor thing and charged up the dead battery.
"I'm sorry I neglected you Nexus 7..."
Downloaded the program on my Win8 laptop and then grabbed the app in the Play store on my tablet.

Since I'm not trying to play keyboard/mouse style PC games like WoW, Skyrim, etc... there was no need to get the paid gaming app... the free one is fine since Win8 games are touchscreen friendly.
It's free if you remain on your home network, I believe there is a monthly fee is you are accessing from a different network.

So yeah... I'm excited. Haven't actually tried gaming with it yet but I'll post again with the results. Seems pretty good just messing around in the start menu and desktop.
I feel like the last person on the planet to know about Splashtop but just in case... I'm sharing!

Games update!
What have I played recently?
Payday 2... love it with friends. I hear that the PC version is getting the nerf bat pretty bad, they haven't ruined patched console versions yet. I'm glad I played it before that happens. It'll take many many more hours if I want to get the full 1000 but having 900+ is satisfying. Garage escape scenario just never wanted to show up for me. 

Diablo III... my current addiction. Works fantastic on console and I'd give Blizzard a hug if I could.

I love love dungeon crawler action RPGs. 

Quarrel... Bought this arcade game on sale and it sat in my backlog for a while. Super easy with a Scrabble solver + guide button pause. I have 2 achievements left but see myself working on this game very slowly.

Last night I decided to grab a couple of the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" games on my Windows Phone 8. Got the French and Spanish versions... if they go smoothly I'll grab the other games too.
After all of these recent Xbox bans, I feel paranoid downloading foreign games, even when paying for them. 
I didn't do the Oman, etc. account tricks so I'm safe there... it's a very grey area so I won't go into my feelings about the issue. I can understand both sides.
Sucks for the people who had their consoles/gamertags banned. :( I'd be pretty gutted.

Oh... less than 10,000 until 200k! Yeah!  GAME ON!

Extra Life 2013 Schedule

Yep, it's that time again! Time to raise money for Children's Miracle Network and hopefully entertain you guys and gals for 24 hours starting on Saturday, November 2nd 2013 @ 12pm (Pacific time). 
100% of your donation goes to helping sick kids in need... plus if you donate at least $24 you can claim a time slot for a challenge or co-op gaming session! Click me for details!
I will also be hosting Happy Wars at the start of the event.
This game is free to play on Xbox 360. (Donation is NOT required to join)
Cheers!

1. 12pm - Happy Wars (15 player co-op, info and signups)
2. 1pm  - Halo 4 co-op (1000 Puppys)
3. 2pm  - Gears of War 3 beast mode (Chris) 
4. 3pm
5. 4pm - Fez (Arais)
6. 5pm
7. 6pm  - Minecraft (Pactra) "Building bridges going nowhere" Friends Welcome! (8 players max)
8. 7pm  
9. 8pm  - Resonance of Fate (biffstix)
10. 9pm  
11. 10pm - Twister Mania on Kinect (Lea)
12. 11pm
13. 12am  
14. 1am
15. 2am*
16. 2am
17. 3am
18. 4am
19. 5am
20. 6am
21. 7am - Leela (Jappe)
22. 8am  - Portal 2 (Cherry)
23. 9am
24. 10am

*Daylight Saving Time ends so the clock falls back an hour at this time.

Games to play but no specific time requested
Cate - XCOM
Scott P. - "Play your favorite" Diablo 3
JJP - Eternal Sonata