Infinity Ward's Robert Bowling to be noob tubed for charity

by Richard Mitchell on Sep 20th 2010 10:00PM

Is there anything worse than succumbing to the grenade launcher -- AKA the dreaded noob tube -- in Modern Warfare 2? Several scientific studies (not really) have shown that there is not. And yet, Infinity Ward's Robert "fourzerotwo" Bowling has agreed to do just that. As part of an Extra Life charity gaming marathon supporting Children's Hospital of Los Angeles, Bowling has agreed to a match of Modern Warfare 2 with Pixel Enemy's BrassMonkeigh. Furthermore, Bowling will actually allow himself to be noob tubed during said match.

Bowling is hoping to raise $5,000 with his marathon, with users contributing $1 for each of the 24 hours he will be playing various games. With a degrading noob tubing on the table, we can only hope he reaches his goal. If you're interested in setting up your own charity marathon (with or without celebrity pwning), head over to the Extra Life charity website.

Source: Extra Life, Pixel Enemy, fourzerotwo.com

Tags: charity, extra-life, microsoft, Modern-Warfare-2, pc, playstation, ps3, robert-bowling, xbox

Reader Comments (42)

You have the option to choose whether you are 'tubed or not? O_O

@SpydaKat
Yeah that confuses me too.
If so I want to opt out of the Gustav in BC2.

@The Aquacharger I havent played BFBC2 since about April, what's so bad about the gustav?

You know, I never understood how these things work. Where is the money coming from and how is playing video games non-stop making money?

...I'm sorry, but I just don't get it.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2 same way as people getting money for running a marathon or even walking, made by donations and pledges

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

I imagine people make commitments like they do in walks.

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

it's called google

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2

Essentially it's like any other marathon, where people (typically friends and family) can pledge to donate $1 for every hour you play, for a total of $24.

In reality, they can donate as much or as little as they like, however it's a fun way to encourage at least a $24 contribution.

@fourzerotwo

is it just me though but i think i could get more money from people by not playing video games than i could for 24 hours straight

its kinda like paying me to stay up for 24 hours straight

i don't do it all that often but it's no challenge to do it

He is a great guy! He donated to my page, so we all should donate to him. His goal is $5,000 and is a community manager that participates in the the actual community. So pry open those wallets and help him out!

@rorshac

Donate cause hes playing a game? Umm... no.

Im part of the "Relay for Life", I rather help fight cancer then support some guy playing games for some charity.

@Faenix The money goes to Children's Hospital of Los Angeles. I don't see the point in down-playing one charitable cause for another.

Relay for Life is a great charity to help bring awareness to cancer. Bringing awareness and raising funds for sick children is no less important regardless of how it's raised.

@Faenix

Instead of running/walking around a track for 24 hours, people play video games. Instead of raising money for the American Cancer Society, money is Raised for the Children's Miracle Network. What is the difference?

Playing games in a 24 hour marathon getting people to pledge money for every hour played is the same thing. There is a community building around this and good is being done. So rather then be a troll, why not try to support those that are also trying to do some good in the world, just like you.

This event has raised over $350,000 over the last two years for Texas Children's Hospital.

I think you are splitting hairs over helping people help people.

Play Games, Heal Kids.

@rorshac

Sorry but Robert Bowling is just about *the* worst community manager there is. He's so bad that he never even posted on his own website, forsaking it instead for his twitter page and his own personal blog. Really, nobody wants to have to sort through family pictures to find information on the latest Modern Warfare.

If you want to donate money to charity, do it. If you want to inflate the ego of Robert Bowling join the psychofants on the many pages he abuses.

@fourzerotwo
Mad props to Bowling for signing up here and straightening out all the conspiracy theorists. That's dedication, man. I'm totally sold.

@rorshac

Please, running/walking for 24hrs is not the same thing as play video games.

Firstly, running/walking promotes a healthy activity and is actually a challenge. Sitting around playing games neither a) healthy or b) challenging. Don't get me wrong, I love to game, but I'm sure as shit not going to claim it's worth people donating money over. Seriously, I've gamed at LAN parties for well over 24hrs when I was younger and that certainly wasn't healthy.

Perhaps if there was an actual challenge (like driving 1200+ laps of a virtual race track within the allotted time, and you donate 1c per lap completed), but as it stands it's just lame.

Maybe I'll start a charity drive where my mates and I sit around for 24hrs and drink beer. I mean sure, we were probably going to do that anyway, but really, doesn't it just inspire you to donate? Incidentally, I'm an employee at the brewery making beers we're drinking. Hey, here's a link to my innocent looking blog with said articles about said beer all over it.

@JesseDeya I don't see where anyone claims that charity drives should be challenging. The goal is to donate as much money as possible for Children's Hospital.

The "24 hour game marathon" is just a fun reason to get people (who may not be able to donate themselves) involved and excited to participate while also bringing awareness to a great cause.

I was asked by Children's Hospital of Los Angeles to participate in hopes of getting more people to sign up to play, and therefore get more people pledging on their behalf, therefore raising the total amount raised.

Babies, Always getting a free ride...

I remember a time when people did something worthwhile or extraordinary in order to raise money for charity. Seriously, gaming for 24hrs? That's it?

I'll keep my monthly donations going direct to the charities I support, without promoting something as ridiculous as this. Thank you.

And don't get the sceptic in me starting with the not-so-subtle product promotion going on here. What a coincident the "Creative Strategist @infinityward" decided to play MW2. *rolls eyes*

@JesseDeya
Yeah that's how I feel about it too. I'd much rather donate the money my self then simply to watch someone destory a golden wrench. Which, lucky for that guy, got a massive tax write off.

@The Aquacharger I get no tax write-off for this, nor do I receive any money. You pay the charity, and you (or whoever is donating) gets the write-off. I'm simply bringing awareness to the cause by playing.

In addtion, this has nothing to do with Modern Warfare 2, other than the fact someone offered to donate $250 to Children's Hospital if I allowed them to noobtube me. I don't see how you're turning this into a negative hidden agenda.

If you read the source blog post, I'll be playing a slew of games that day.

@fourzerotwo
We're not downtalking you or anything. We just don't see the point in donating to this, rather then just making the donation ourselves. And the write off I didn't mean you. I meant the guy who did the TF2 golden wrench. As he took all donations as a paypal payment. So, I'm sure he got a pretty nice tax write off.

@fourzerotwo
Also to clarify, no I don't donate to any of these charity drives, except the one's that ask for money on the street I give what change I have. I just prefer donating myself rather then a drive. I find it sad people need a charity drive to remind them that they should donate.

@fourzerotwo

You're raising money for charity, great, I've no issue with that. I do however think it's an unfortunate reflection of our society that gaming for 24hrs is required to inspire some people to donate.

I'm sure you mean well, I think it just would have been more transparent if you were raising money without also pimping your own product. You can't deny how much free press IW and MW2 will get from this and that's all just a little convenient for my liking. Sure you have other games listed on your blog, but let's face it, all the media coverage is about MW2 and you getting noob tubed. It's just a personal preference but I prefer more conspicuous acts of charity.

Good luck with the drive, I'm sure you'll exceed your goal.

@JesseDeya Playing games isn't "required" to inspire people to donate. It's just a fun way to get people involved. Who cares how people get involved, as long as they do.

Secondly, no one is pimping anything. I can't help if Joystiq or anyone else decides to pick up this story and include Modern Warfare 2 in the headline. I never mentioned Modern Warfare 2 once when announcing this charity on my personal blog and Twitter. All I said was, please spread the word and share if you can.

Only after that, was I approached with an offer to play one match of MW2 with someone in exchange they pledged $250 to the cause. I'm not going to refuse $250 for charity simply because it could be misconstrued as "pimping my game".

You're losing sight of the entire purpose of all this, which is to bring as much awareness to the charity as possible. If the fact that I work at a developer that made a popular game gets the charity more awareness then that is awesome, not negative.

This moron is still employed. Neat.

@(Unverified)

Yeah isn't this the guy who tried to hype up that Dedicated servers weren't needed for the PC version of MW2?????????

Made all kinds of promise's that the Matchmaking system was the greatest thing since slice bread?????????

That's not how you hold a baby.

This is the proper way:
http://img831.imageshack.us/img831/1795/michaeljacksondanglingb.jpg

@TheMichaelJackson I knew what was coming but i still lol'd

@TheMichaelJackson

I'd say I'm not laughing but my Grandmother would not approve of me lying.

@TheMichaelJackson I feel bad for it by I lol'd in the middle of history class.

So, getting killed willing by an easy weapon in the game is somehow a big thing worth donating for?

There should be a charity event where we get to shoot him all day with paintballs.

I always hated how he avoided answering certain ps3 COD4 questions. Especially about the ps3 version and whether or not it was ever going to get patched for DS3 support.

I prefer "pro pipe"

Maybe he should just give the money instead of getting press for IW.

That's nice, charity stuff is always a great thing, but i was expecting him to get noob tubed in real life. You know like with one of those police bean bags or rubber ball things

when I started reading this article I thought he was agreeing to be shot at with a real grenade launcher. if you could figure out a safe way to do it (not likely) that would be cool.

That picture needs a caption badly

@ben linus
Don't forget the shotguns and predator missiles.

I prefer AT4's as my noob tube. I loved hearing people whine online in SOCOM when I'd blast them with it.

I feel really bad for Mr. Bowling. The so called fans of MW always complain and whine about everything he says. They'll probably complain that he shouldn't be doing charity because that takes time away from his main job.

At PAX East, there was a Xbox Live discussion with the one lady from @XboxSupport, Major Nelson and Mr. Bowling. Minus one or two questions and the awesome Rock Band intro the lovely lady from @XboxSupport did, the whole hour was just complaining about MW2. Bowling handled it quite well, though. Like he is used to being hounded about MW all the time.

Now he makes a post about donating to charity OR starting your own and people complain? *shake my head* I don't play the MW games, but I appreciate everything you do and have to deal with, Mr. Bowling.

I want him to be noob tubed in real life.

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