{"id":28603,"date":"2013-05-03T07:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=28603"},"modified":"2013-05-03T07:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T21:36:30","slug":"join-the-25-hour-fundraising-game-a-thon-for-starlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=28603","title":{"rendered":"Join the 25-hour fundraising game-a-thon for Starlight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Mario live in Melbourne\u2019s CBD &#8211; Thursday 2 May<\/b><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Today, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlight.org.au\/Pages\/default.aspx\">Starlight Children\u2019s Foundation<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ebgames.com.au\/\">EB Games<\/a> will join forces to celebrate <b>Starlight Day<\/b> with a 25-hour gaming extravaganza in Melbourne\u2019s CBD in an attempt to raise more than $550,000 as part of the EB Games Starlight Week event.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be a high-octane flurry of non-stop fun for avid and novice gamers of all ages enjoying a range of games including a \u2018noob celebrity challenge\u2019, a retro gaming challenge, and a blindfolded gaming competition.<\/p>\n<p><b>WHERE:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>EB Games Store, 67 Swanston Street, Melbourne<\/p>\n<p><b>WHEN:<\/b> 12pm Thursday, 2 May \u2013 1pm Friday 3 May<\/p>\n<p>Starlight CEO, Louise Baxter said: \u201cAll funds raised will help secure the future of much needed programs including Starlight Express Rooms, Livewire.org.au and Starlight\u2019s Wish Granting Program, which will grant its 8000<sup>th<\/sup> life changing wish this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gamers and supporters who can\u2019t make it to the gaming challenge can stream the entire event live at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitchtv\/ebgamesaus\">www.twitchtv\/ebgamesaus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 25 hour Challenge will run from 12pm Thursday, 2 May until 1pm Friday, 3 May.<\/p>\n<p>Starlight Day is the charity\u2019s biggest annual national fundraiser and this year, Starlight is celebrating 25 years of transforming the experience of hospitalisation for seriously ill children around Australia.<\/p>\n<p>EB Games is exclusively partnered with Starlight to help bring a little joy and happiness to sick kids around Australia.<\/p>\n<p>More than 2,500 volunteers will hit the streets on Friday 3 May to raise much-needed funds to help Starlight &#8216;Shine On&#8217; for another 25 years and continue supporting seriously ill children and their families into the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mario live in Melbourne\u2019s CBD &#8211; Thursday 2 May\u00a0 Today, the Starlight Children\u2019s Foundation and EB Games will join forces to celebrate Starlight Day with a 25-hour gaming extravaganza in Melbourne\u2019s CBD in an attempt to raise more than $550,000 as part of the EB Games Starlight Week event. The event will be a high-octane<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=28603\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news","category-mind-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28606,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28603\/revisions\/28606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}