N-Europe forum members are playing games later in the week to help a good cause. Find out the details below.

Over in the N-Europe Forums a motley crew of members under the direction of our very own flameboy are getting ready to assemble together on the 16th October to play videogames for 24 hours to raise money for Extra Life, a childrens charity based in USA. The N-Europe team will be gathering at a secret location in a room full of TVs, consoles, handhelds, laptops and of course cameras. The entire event will be streamed live for you to check up on their progress and see how they are getting on.

So what is Extra Life and why should you care? Their website provides the back story to the origins of why the charity and the event were set up:

Extra Life began in 2008 as a way of honoring a young lady named Victoria Enmon. Tori’s battle against acute lymphoblastic leukemia (A.L.L.) inspired the Sarcastic Gamer Community in a way that is difficult to describe. Members sent in video games and bought gifts to try to keep Tori’s spirits up despite numerous hospital stays and 3 bouts with the deadly disease.

Tragically, we lost Tori to cancer in January of 2008. Later that year, I asked my partners at Sarcastic Gamer if they would be interested in Extra Life, a 24-hour video game marathon to raise money for the hospital that treated and fought beside Tori. In 2008 and 2009 Extra Life raised a combined $302,000 dollars, 100% of which went directly to help kids like Tori at my local Children’s Miracle Network hospital (Texas Children’s).

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. In what I can only consider destiny, in 2009 I left behind my radio career and went to work full time for Children’s Miracle Network, as a Radiothon Director. This life-changing event gave me unique insight into an incredible non-profit organization that helps to heal kids all over the United States, Canada, UK, and Australia.

I quickly realized that CMN would be the perfect solution to expanding Extra Life into more communities. This year, when you sign up to play video games for 24 hours on October 16th, 2010, 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 2010 will go directly to the Children’s Miracle Network Hospital closest to you.

So what can you do to help? First get over the N-Europe Team page and donate. The target amounts are set and everyone's personal target is to donate 1 dollar for every hour played but please sponsor as much or as little as you can. You can also sponsor as many members of the team as you'd like or just one member and help out those kids.

The teams page is right here: https://www.hospitalshelpingkids.org/ExtraLife/team.aspx?id=5BA7F91A

Also why not go to http://extralife.sarcasticgamer.com/wp/ and sign up yourself and take part in your own gaming marathon?