The League of Extraordinary Gamers

Throughout our week long, summer marathon for EveryMan, LOEG will be hosting our first ever live tournament for The Binding of Isaac. How does one race The Binding of Isaac you may ask? Starting back up on May 28^th when Wrath of the Lamb DLC comes out, Crumps2: www.twitch.tv/crumps2 and LethalFrag: www.twitch.tv/lethalfrag will resume their regular Tuesday racing where you’ll be able to get an idea how racing will work with The Binding of Isaac. Details on how to participate in the race are as followed:

-You have to have Mom’s Heart unlocked

-Be able to stream

The first two are an absolute requirement if you wish to participate in the tournament. The following will be the rules for the race.

-Have the same characters across the race (ie both players must use Isaac, Eve, ect)

-If the character Isaac is selected, no usage of his D6 if unlocked

Prizes are still TBD for the race and will be updated whenever we have new information regarding prizes. If you wish to sign up for the race, please PM www.twitch.tv/crumps2 with the title of Binding of Isaac Tourney Sign Up.

We here at LOEG are proud to announce our latest partner/sponsor: Bronies for Good. BFG is a network of dedicated fans from the MLP community who show a genuine desire to reach out to people and problems that many of the people in this world tend to disregard. That being said, it’s also a support group for any Brony who genuinely shows the desire to reach out and help, a mission that very much correlates with what we do here at LOEG. Through service, dedication and sacrifice, they hope to demonstrate that the brony community is not just an atypical assortment of fans for a children’s TV show, but rather, an altruistic group of people that embody the ideas of love, tolerance and practice those ideas in a meaningful and substantial way.

Bronies for Good’s current project, as a few of you brony/pony fans in our community may know, is known as the Seeds of Kindness. It’s a fundraiser dedicated to raise awareness and money to help fund two major, ongoing projects for the non-profit group of Your Siblings.

The first project, which has since been fully funded as this time of writing, was to help build, supply and operate a clinic in Uganda. The second, ongoing project is the construction of a Green Village in Burundi, where street children who have lost their parents to the civil war can find a secure home that allows refugees to become self-sufficient without resorting to criminal activities. You can learn more about Your Siblings group over at: http://yoursiblings.org/faq

In order to help boost awareness and funds towards the second project, BFG will be teaming up with Everfree Radio: http://everfreeradio.com/ on June 8^th for a livestream starting at 10PM CST. Which, then will transition on over to Ponies Live Now: http://ponyslivenow.com/ for a 24 hour gaming marathon.  With that being said, you can find more information about BFG and their current project over at: http://broniesforgood.org/ or alternatively, just click the Seeds of Kindness banner on the right of our site.

July: The Final Frontier for Summer Break; known as the last stretch of having fun in the sun before school is back in session. One could say they’ve done it all over their break: parties, booze, ogling at beautiful girls in bikinis/hot, muscular guys at pool/seaside and everything else in between. For others, it was a general day to day routine of a quiet, lazy summer: sleeping in, hanging out with friends, spending time online, etc. However, one thing is for certain, we all strive for the last month to be something that we’ll always remember.

With the community we have, there’s no better way than to sink near endless hours into gaming thanks to all the free time in between with our social life. That being the case, summer break is the perfect opportunity to finally exact our revenge on the games that troll us endlessly such as Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac, or Dark Souls. It could even be games that you’ve never beaten as a kid like Final Fantasy Tactics, Metal Gear Solid, or even Yoshi’s Island. With summer vacation coming to an end, we’re gonna go out in style!

The League of Extraordinary Gamers is proud to present our 5th and 2nd summer annual week-long charity marathon for Everyman. And for the first time ever, in spirit of the charity we’ll be gaming for, there’ll be two themes this time around.

As always, PM KitsuneKyon: www.twitch.tv/KitsuneKyon if you wish to cast for the event. And if you’d like to donate prizes, PM Aria www.twitch.tv/Ariablarg

Binding of Isaac Tournament info here: http://theleagueofextraordinarygamers.com/the-binding-of-isaac-tournament-for-everyman/

When: July 22nd-29th

What for: EveryMan: http://everyman-campaign.org/index.shtml

Themes: Manly games and Revenge on X Game

Glitz! Glamour! Kappas! It’s everything that you’d wish for in Hollywood, but much better. Starting on August 31^st in Seattle, Washington, at the Washington State and Convention Center, one of the gaming community’s biggest conventions will be happening; second only to E3, PAX Prime. PAX Prime, as you may know, is Penny Arcade Expo’s original convention, and its second annual event of the year that everyone can attend, unlike E3 and excluding PAX Dev. It’ll feature some of the gaming industry’s greatest minds and developers, musical acts, critics and fans alike.

The annual event got its start in 2004 in Bellevue, Washington at the Meydenbauer Center by Penny Arcade comic authors Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik. The inspiration in creating this event stemmed from the fact that the pair wanted to attend a show that gave equal attention across the gaming spectrum of console, computer and table top gamers. Thus, PAX itself was born.

It wouldn’t be until 2010 at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, that PAX East was born. Given the highly successful event of PAX in the previous years, now named PAX Prime to avoid confusion, it made sense to expand the event.

It wouldn’t be until 2010 at the John B. Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention Center in Boston, Massachusetts, that PAX East was born. Given the highly successful event of PAX in the previous years, now named PAX Prime to avoid confusion, it made sense to expand the event. With that said, Prime is typically the bigger event of the two given that gaming developers are more likely to talk about their product(s) since many of the Triple A titles are scheduled for a fall/winter release, as well as debut demos of said product(s) to gauge customer feedback in working the last few months on refining said product(s) as well as hype it.

So what goes on at a PAX event? Citing from the site: “in addition to dedicated tournaments and freeplay areas, we’ve got nerdcore concerts, panel discussions, the weekend-long Omegathon event, and an exhibitor hall filled with booths displaying the latest from top game publishers and developers.” Of course, there’ll be parties, meeting up with friends, enjoying that which is Seattle, ect.

AriaBlarg and Friends, being Angeho, Luigi__91, Tagros, Brett, Raptor Jesus, kashi, Ransom, Lucario, and LOEG creator, KitsuneKyon will be attending PAX Prime 2012. As Ariablarg.tv Staff, we will be dedicated in bringing you, the viewer all around coverage of this event as well as what we encounter in Seattle. If fellow Blargnauts, or TTV members in general are attending, don’t hesitate in meeting up with us. You can find more info about our trip and if you like to help at Ariablarg.tv