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Quake 4 fundraising marathon tonight
Posted by M (13 Jul 2006, 4:35 p.m. NZST)
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A brave group of PC gamers are set to become Sport Relief's first-ever cyber athletes, as the team behind Future Publishing's PCFormat magazine hold their own marathon games session to raise money for the charity.
Aiming to raise £1000 for the worthy cause, six gamers from the magazine will play an epic first-to-a-thousand-kills deathmatch of the multiplayer PC first-person shooter, Quake 4. As they prepare for their challenge, the PCFormat team are appealling to games industry and media readers, to support their fundraising event. Gaming experts believe the marathon session will last anywhere between four and seven hours, which will push the PCFormat gamers to the limit.
The PCFormat Quake 4 Marathon takes place tonight from 4am NZ time, just two days before thousands of people across the UK run a mile for Sport Relief. Sport Relief is organised by Comic Relief and the BBC and aims to raise much needed-cash to help kids leading tough lives in some of the world's poorest countries.
Taking a breather from his training regime, deputy editor of PCFormat, Alec Meer comments: "Our usual bouts of Quake 4 last about half an hour before we're absolutely knackered and slump off to the pub. We're strictly lunchtime amateurs and not pro-gamers - in other words, this will completely destroy us. PCFormat wanted to do something different to raise some money for Sport Relief - we hope everybody will get behind us, supporting Sport Relief's first cyber-athletes in the process."
To donate to PCFormat's Quake 4 Marathon, visit http://blog.pcformat.co.uk/page/pcformat?entry=sponsor_us_to_play_1000 and click on the Sport Relief button at the bottom. Viewers will be able to monitor the progress from a live webcam feed whilst other Quake 4 players can become in-game spectators.
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