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GamesRadar's annual 24-hour gaming marathon for Child's Play

Join us and guests from Capcom, SuperGiant, etc. on Friday, August 24 at 12pm PDT

Words: on August 23, 2012
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GamesRadar's annual 24-hour gaming marathon will begin today, August 24, at 12 pm PDT and run through noon the next day. We hope you come and game with us, or at least check out the livestream on , where we'll eat pizza, play games, chat with guests, and try our best to stay alert and somewhat coherent. Besides the pizza, community gaming, and sleep-deprived ramblings, it's also for a good cause: all proceeds from the event will be donated to Child’s Play, the gamer-driven charity that hands out games and toys to more than 70 children’s hospitals around the world. We ask that you tune in, support Child's Play, and have fun! We'll also be doing giveaways every hour so tune in for a chance to win and make sure to be following our @GamesRadar Twitter account! Giveaway rules and details are here.

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What we'll be playing with you

At noon we'll be playing Team Fortress 2 on PC, Gears of War 3 and Mass Effect 3 on Xbox 360, and Uncharted 3 on PS3, but as the day goes on we'll be playing other games. What other games, you ask? Well, just to name a few...

Minecraft, League of Legends, Battlefield 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Tribes: Ascend, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Burnout: Paradise, FIFA 12, Madden 13, Super Monday Night Combat, Assassin's Creed 2 (Brotherhood or Revelations), Max Payne 3, Mario Kart 7, Left 4 Dead 2. And, obviously, plenty more.

If you want to play along, come back to this article on the date and chat with us, letting us know what you want to play. You can add us on...

How to play with us

Xbox Live: GR Video, GR Video Team, GRBoss and GRMiniBoss

PSN: GRBoss, GRMiniBoss, GSI_Sterling_M (Sterling is using his personal account for certain games)

TF2 server: 8.17.251.163:27015 (PC Gamer's server)

Minecraft server: 107.22.238.180 (Sophia is playing as soapymoose)

League of Legends: Coop and LJRepresent

Mass Effect 3: iheartdest0y

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive: RyanTheEskimo (PC/XBLA) (guest from @Gamer)

And you can follow us on Twitter and chat with us throughout at...

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Our goal is to raise $5,000 for Child’s Play. Help us!  And as an added bonus for donating, we’ll perform truly mortifying feats of gaming when we hit donation milestones.

Schedule for livestream

  • 12:00 PM: Sleeping Dogs
  • 1:00 PM: Darksiders II
  • 2:00 PM: Bastion with Supergiant Games
  • 3:00 PM: The Walking Dead with Telltale
  • 4:00 PM: Beyond Good & Evil Game Club Episode 4
  • 5:00 PM: Street Fighter 25 anniversary collection with Capcom
  • 6:00 PM: Happy Action Theatre 2 with Double Fine
  • 7:00 PM: Rock Band Blitz
  • 8:00 PM: Transformers: Fall of Cybertron multiplayer (360)
  • 9:00 PM: Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 multiplayer (360 for livestream, PC for community)
  • 10:00 PM: Battlefield 3 multiplayer (360)
  • 11:00 PM: Gears of War 3 multiplayer
  • 12:00 AM: Guild Wars 2
  • 1:00 AM: Shadow of the Colossus
  • 2:00 AM: Mass Effect 3 multiplayer (360)
  • 3:00 AM: A SCARY GAME WITH SOPHIA (if we hit that mark, otherwise something else)
  • 4:00 AM: Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD
  • 5:00 AM: Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo
  • 6:00 AM: Trials Revolution HD
  • 7:00 AM: Burnout Paradise multiplayer (PS3 on Stream, 360 for community)
  • 8:00 AM: Journey
  • 9:00 AM: You Don't Know Jack
  • 10:00 AM: Castle Crashers
  • 11:00 AM: Johann Sebastian Joust

For every tier we hit, we'll do some sort of... thing. What sort of things? Here's the list so far, which is subject to change based on what you want.

Charity tiers

  • $500: Sophia (our easily-frightened EiC who can barely play BioShock without running out of the room) will play a VERY SCARY GAME at 3am.
  • $1000: One person (chat chooses) will sing an embarrassing song in Singstar
  • $1500: Two people (chat chooses) will sing an embarrassing duet in Singstar
  • $2000: Dance to “I’m Han Solo” from Star Wars Kinect
  • $3000: Dance to “I’m Han Solo” from Star Wars Kinect. Twice. In a row.
  • $4000: Someone will get slapped in the face for 1-minute with the Wolverine foam hands
  • $5000: MYSTERY

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53 comments

  • LazyBlueGuy - August 24, 2012 10:50 p.m.

    Hm

  • BladedFalcon - August 24, 2012 10:34 p.m.

    Holy crap, just now, seeing Henry singing to THAT song was priceless XD It may be too much too ask, but do you guys think it could be possible to later post those kind of stand-out moments in an article later? ^^; (At the very least THAT one... if only because the audio and video were incredibly out of sync...)

  • Three Seconds - August 24, 2012 1:02 p.m.

    Nice! I shall be playing mass effect with you fellows. Why not play some Hybrid, the new multiplayer summer of arcade shooter, at some point during the stream?

  • nintendo365 - August 24, 2012 8:27 a.m.

    So no SSX or Borderlands? We could at least squeeze out a bit more from Borderlands before the 18th hits!

  • EnragedTortoise1 - August 24, 2012 7:13 a.m.

    No Dayz or Counterstrike? Oh well. I'll play a mean Medic in TF2 regardless.

  • Wizrai - August 24, 2012 4:36 a.m.

    It's a shame there's not much PS3 love, but Burnout Paradise's my specialty! Expect to see me there~! >;D

  • n00b - August 23, 2012 6:51 p.m.

    persona 4 arena plz

  • BladedFalcon - August 23, 2012 6:30 p.m.

    Wait... no mass Effect 3 on PS3? Dammit, that's the only thing I can play >.<

  • GrandmaSlayer - August 24, 2012 9 a.m.

    Same here bro

  • Matt Hughes - August 23, 2012 12:19 p.m.

    Some Super Street Fighter 4 endless rooms would be great.

  • JMarsella09 - August 22, 2012 3:19 p.m.

    I would like to see some P4 Arena... It's literally all I'm playing right now.

  • panchitoskiwalker - August 22, 2012 12:39 p.m.

    are you going to have to register or just start playing at that time???

  • Augers - August 22, 2012 11:51 a.m.

    league of legends will be awesome :)

  • Crimmy - August 22, 2012 10:32 a.m.

    League and SMNC? Hellz yeah!

  • avantguardian - August 22, 2012 1:42 a.m.

    you guys gonna have a schedule up soon? it would be nice to have a heads up:) nobody plays ssx, huh?

  • NullG7 - August 21, 2012 11:54 p.m.

    Hey could you guys give a list of supported platforms if its not PC only that would be great. If its all PC that's fine by me at least I have SMNC and TF2!

  • EwoksTasteLikeChicken - August 21, 2012 6:05 p.m.

    Please play Revelations, the matchmaking is much better and faster than Brotherhood.

  • BladedFalcon - August 21, 2012 5:22 p.m.

    Whoooo! Mass Effect 3! I suppose you guys are going to play using all the MP expansion packs so far, yes? If so, I probably should get up to date, and get the earth DLC pack... and hopefully get lucky enough to get a new character to level up along. I has no microphone though... will that be a problem? >>; Also augh! those are awesome incentives, and we're only 170 in! ): c'mon people! it's for charity and lols! (I really wanna see someone get slapped for one minute with those wolverine claws...)

  • somerandomchap - August 21, 2012 4:17 p.m.

    By L4D do you mean 1 or 2? i would suggest 2 as it now has every L4D 1 map

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