What is Extra Life?

In 2008 and 2009 Extra Life raised a combined $302,000 dollars, 100% of which went directly to help kids at The Texas Children's Hospital. While thousands of gamers, over 100 websites, and over 12,000 donors were more than happy to support Extra Life, many expressed their desire to raise money to help kids closer to home.

This year, when you sign up to play video games for 24 hours on October 15th, 2011, you won't just be raising money for kids. You'll be supporting LOCAL kids and their families. Kids right in your own back yard.

100% of the money you raise in Extra Life 2011 will go directly to the Children's Miracle Network Hospital closest to you if choose to participate, create your own team or join Team Meerkat.

Find out more Extra Life information at Extra Life.

New Avatar freebies for 2010

As we’re fast approaching October the Team is again beginning to get ready for our sponsorship drive. To kick off the launch of our new 2010 site we’ve uploaded some more avatar freebies for you to download. More freebies will be online as we close in on the event date.

The avatar icons themselves come in three sizes, if you’d like the whole set you can download the zip provided below. If anyone asks where you got the icons we’d love it if you could point them our way, we need as many individual or team sponsorships as we can get, Extra Life 2010 is getting closer!

Download all the icons here!