Extra Life 2016!

extralifeIt’s time for a whole lot of hot video game nonsense in an effort to raise money for sick kids! This year Some Other Castle is going to rock 36 hours of video games to get those dollars for Children’s Hospitals. This post is here to tell you who is playing, when they are playing, and how you can donate.

First, the donation pages:
Elaine
Melissa
Karf
Justin
SOC Team Page

Second, the Twitch Accounts:
Some Other Castle Twitch
Elaine’s Twitch (she’ll likely be on and off that account outside of her time in the schedule)

Finally, a schedule (all times EST):

Friday, November 25

  • Noon-4pm:  Justin playing Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Skylanders Superchargers
  • 4pm – 9pm:  Melissa playing Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions, and misc other PSN stuff
  • 9pm – 2am (November 26):  Elaine playing Watch_Dogs 2, Dishonored 2, Titanfall2, other hot nonsense (She can be goaded into eating terrible things)

Saturday, November 26

  • 2am – 7am:  Elaine will likely continue playing on her personal Twitch account while…….
  • 2am – 7am:  Justin takes over the SOC Twitch with DOOM and The Order 1886
  • 7am – 11am:  Melissa playing more Infinity, Dimensions, etc
  • 11am – 3pm:  Scott playing Watch_Dogs2 and misc other back catalog games
  • 3pm – Midnight: Enter the VR zone with Karf

 

Ranting After Dark Podcast – Episode 15: Porkchops and Kegels

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In this episode Elaine and Carolyn discuss the Pokemons, the influence of certain SNES RPGs, some Persona grade JRPG nonsense, lawsuit settlements, how much they hate Flash, porkchops, and the necessity of frequent pelvic floor exercises. Yes, you read that last one correctly. Yes, we are sorry. Yes, that apology was a lie.

Send us nonsense! radcast@someothercastle.com

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Ranting After Dark Podcast – Episode 14: Want to See My Pokemon?

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On this episode Elaine and Karf sit down to discuss Pokemon and the art of catching them all, the deeply stupid story mode of Street Fighter V, Persona and Personalikes, executives leaving, games that are being made, hot new Xbox Avatars, and of course watching people eat. If you spend more than $13,000 you can achieve the highest level of this podcast!

Image Credit: The Chive

Send us questions! radcast@someothercastle.com

Invitation Only Podcast, Episode 4: Stamina, Green!

On this episode of Invitation Only Elaine is joined by Jeff Green! No not the basketball player the way cooler guy who plays video games and has talked or written about them online for a while! The duo discuss Ratchet and Clank, Dark Souls 3, the experience of streaming video games (and sometimes getting salty), Jeff’s career from a Macintosh magazine to Hit Detection, parenting (kids are hard you guys), PAXamania, ice cream, pie, and online dating profiles. This is a conversation that mixes fun and serious business in the perfect way. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS NONSENSE.

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