Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Desert Bus 6 now accepting donations on its road to Hope]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/06/desert-bus-6-now-accepting-donations-on-its-road-to-hope/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/06/desert-bus-6-now-accepting-donations-on-its-road-to-hope/http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/06/desert-bus-6-now-accepting-donations-on-its-road-to-hope/#comments This year's Desert Bus for Hope gaming marathon is now open for donations. In little over 10 days, the bus will leave its virtual depot and take a road trip across several games in an effort to raise money for Child's Play.

The full schedule of this year's fundraising festivities isn't online yet; look for that on Friday. Prizes - sometimes not very good ones - will be given out throughout the event and interviews will be conducted with call-in guests. If you'd like to donate some of your simoleons, you can do that by heading over here.

JoystiqDesert Bus 6 now accepting donations on its road to Hope originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 06 Nov 2012 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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In perhaps the most compelling proof yet that we humans will happily donate money to see other humans suffer, the team at LoadingReadyRun announced that this year's Desert Bus for Hope marathon earned a whopping $378,895 for the Child's Play charity. All it cost the crew was 150 hours (a little over six days) of playing the stupifyingly boring "Desert Bus" minigame from unreleased Sega CD game Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors.

So LRR gets nearly $400K for playing a dull game, yet we listened to Great Uncle Jerry's post-Thanksgiving lecture on the ethical failings of the BCS system, and nobody gives us a dime? Where's the justice?

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Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>childs-playdesert-bus-for-hopeloadingreadyrunlrrTue, 29 Nov 2011 02:40:00 EST<![CDATA[Desert Bus for Hope raises more than $132,000 for Child's Play]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/27/desert-bus-for-hope-raises-more-than-132-000-for-childs-play/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/27/desert-bus-for-hope-raises-more-than-132-000-for-childs-play/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/27/desert-bus-for-hope-raises-more-than-132-000-for-childs-play/#comments After five days and 16 hours of playing the world's most boring game, the Desert Bus for Hope crew has reached its final stop for the year, bringing in a staggering $132,392.94 to benefit the Child's Play charity. With the third iteration of its annual marathon play session of "Desert Bus" -- a mini-game from the unreleased Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors -- comedy troupe LoadingReadyRun raised nearly $110,000 more than its first year. If you want to see just how brutal the experience was, you can try the game for yourself right here.

It's just the latest piece in a long line of evidence proving that a bunch of good-hearted gamers and Canadians with a brutal, masochistic streak can accomplish just about anything. Congrats, everybody.

JoystiqDesert Bus for Hope raises more than $132,000 for Child's Play originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>charitychilds-playdesert-bus-for-hopeloadingreadyrunsega-cdFri, 27 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Help the Desert Bus for Hope at 2 p.m. EST and win terrible games]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/24/help-the-desert-bus-for-hope-at-2-p-m-est-and-win-terrible-game/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/24/help-the-desert-bus-for-hope-at-2-p-m-est-and-win-terrible-game/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/24/help-the-desert-bus-for-hope-at-2-p-m-est-and-win-terrible-game/#comments Today at 2 p.m. EST, Joystiq's own preternatually handsome Justin McElroy will be visiting the brave men and women of the Desert Bus for Hope, and you should tune in! For starters, you'll get to watch former people who have been turned into little more than husks by extended exposure to one of the worst games ever draw strength from the timeless good looks and boundless compassion of Mr. McElroy. But, almost just as importantly, you'll also have a shot of winning a box of terrible games.

The Desert Bus team will select one person who donates here between 2 and 3 p.m. at random, and we'll send that unlucky SOB a box full of unpleasant games and other random swag. It's better than nothing but just barely. Besides, you're helping sick kids while treating your ears to a heaping dollop of everyone's favorite Thanksgiving treat: Justin McElroy. isn't that enough for you?

JoystiqHelp the Desert Bus for Hope at 2 p.m. EST and win terrible games originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>charitychilds-playdesert-busdesert-bus-for-hopeloadingreadyrunTue, 24 Nov 2009 12:40:00 EST<![CDATA[Desert Bus for Hope 3 pulls onto the road tomorrow]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/19/desert-bus-for-hope-3-pulls-onto-the-road-tomorrow/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/19/desert-bus-for-hope-3-pulls-onto-the-road-tomorrow/http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/19/desert-bus-for-hope-3-pulls-onto-the-road-tomorrow/#comments Can something still be considered a game if you know you're going to lose? That's the exact question the brave crew of the Desert Bus for Hope will have to answer as it sets off on its third annual excursion tomorrow. As they play the Desert Bus mini-game from Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors for days on end to raise money for Child's Play, sick kids will win, we the viewers of their live video stream will win, but the bleary-eyed LoadingReadyRun driving team will absolutely, positively lose.

If you'd like to help their sacrifice not be in vain (while at the same time prolonging it), you can donate on their homepage.

[Thanks, Koehler83]

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The best way to wield the hulking girth of the Joystiq Biomass is to help people. The second best way? Helping people by hurting Canadians. It's so rare that the opportunities to do that present themselves, we wanted to draw your attention one last time to LoadingReadyRun's "Desert Bus for Hope," wherein the British Columbia-based troupe raises money for the Child's Play charity by playing the world's most boring game.

They've been at it for four-and-a-half days now, and have raised a staggering $55,000. Sadly, though, it could all come to an end around 11 p.m. EST tonight unless you act now, give all you can give, and help keep those Canadians stationary. Go, Joystiq Biomass! Attack!

JoystiqWherein Joystiq helps sick kids by punishing Canadians originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There's something simultaneously charming and repulsive about this rap video by Canadian comedy-guys Loading.Ready.Run., performing under the nom de guerre of 64K. Power Gloves, Nintendo belts, sideways caps, and an uncanny ability to remain rhythmless throughout the entire song compel me to close my browser and forget I ever watched the thing ... but then, then I remember all the great gamer in-jokes and maybe it's all right after all.

"The master of unlocking"? Exactly! 1337 has all the subtlety and clumsiness of that classic Resident Evil line, put to music then captured on video with a fish-eye lens. Oh no, I'm torn again. For the morbidly curious, the whole thing is embedded after the break.

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Joystiq1337 nerd rappers wax gaming, b-boy style originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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