Fangamer is the official supplier of Desert Bus 8 t-shirts, with proceeds from sales during the run going to Desert Bus for Hope! Founded in 2008, Fangamer specializes in creating unique accessories, apparel, figurines, and other merchandise based on your favourite games and geek fandoms. If you want an oven mitt that looks like a Power Glove or some post-it notes shaped like Nintendo cartridges, they’ve got you covered. But that’s not all; they also host podcasts, reach out to the community through Fanfests and conventions, and contribute to charity events—like Desert Bus for Hope! We are incredibly grateful to Fangamer for their generosity, and you can order your Desert Bus t-shirts RIGHT NOW; no pre-orders necessary!
You’ll never guess what we just did! As of a few minutes ago, we’ve officially eclipsed the grand total of Desert Bus 7, thereby making
Desert Bus for Hope 8 the most successful Desert Bus ever!
As of right now, we’re at about $555,000 and are scheduled for 156 hours of bussing! Huge thanks to all of you for tuning in, donating, and helping us help the children!
Workers of the world, unite!
Think your job is hard? Can you can express your daily grind through song? If you answered “yes” to both those questions, this is the contest for you!
Driver Paul recently treated us to a stirring rendition of “A Folksinger Earns Every Dime” and challenged you viewers to rewrite a portion of the song — let’s say a verse and the chorus — about your job! (For reference, you can find the full lyrics to the song here.)
The best entry will receive a Paul lenticular prize pack, sweetened with a D&D Dragon Ampersand sticker, some picnic chocolate, some Desert Bus For Hope 8 patches, AND Paul will sing your entry, live on the stream!
To enter, send your entry to contest@desertbus.org and use the subject line “Earns Every Dime”! The contest closes at 6pm local time!
It’s often said that you never know what’s going to happen here at Desert Bus, and for good reason. Moments ago we had a call from Penn Jillette, the selfsame Penn of Penn & Teller’s Smoke and Mirrors, which is pretty awesome to begin with. But that was far from the end of it. Being an excellent fellow and great friend of our little enterprise, Penn spontaneously put up an incredible Las Vegas prize package for auction:
- 2 tickets to Penn and Teller‘s Live show in Las Vegas
- 2 nights in a suite at the Rio in Las Vegas
- Round of golf at Cascata with Emily Jillette
- 2 Tickets to Mac King
- 2 Tickets to David Copperfield
- Limo to and from the airport
- If you’re nice to Emily Jillette, she will also take you to dinner
- If you arrive by BUS, you can visit them at their house =)
As it looked like we were about to declare a winner, Penn dropped another bomb on us, something that had never happened before in Desert Bus history… he announced that the top three bidders would all receive the prize package! Boom. Our three, three, three winners who will soon be painting the town red in the City of Sin were:
- mugenity @ $7,700
- Impsy @ $7,613
- omega_lairon @ $7,500
(Put those numbers together, by the way, and you come up with the formidable sum of $22,813.)
Formed in 2011 as the collaboration between siblings Steven Dengler and Ash Vickers, MegaCynics is a webcomic that follows the wonderful interactions in their lives. It is a story that encompasses video games, popular culture, hockey, friendship, family, sibling rivalry, nature vs nurture, good vs evil, wealth vs poverty, black magic vs atheism, and giant anacondas vs robot gorillas.
Steven Dengler is the Co-Founder, Co-Writer, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of Megacycnics. Steve is well known to Desert Bus fans as a longtime sponsor and the King of Desertbus.
Ash Vickers is the Co-Founder, Co-Writer, Creative Director, and Lead Artist. Ash is well known to Desert Bus fans as the founder of Shame Tickets, being an awesome event manager, and her not-so-secret love of Speed Racer.
We appreciate everything that MegaCynics has done for us and welcome them back as a Sponsor!
These adorable Mal and Jayne Pillows from Firefly are the perfect addition to any couch! We are going to be running a donation drive until 2:30 PM PST where any donations of $7.28 or multiples thereof will enter you for a chance to win!
We have an announcement! The auction for the FULL SIZE Desert Bus 8 Poster done by Michael Lunsford will be at 7:00 PM PST!!!!! Tune in for your chance to win the ONLY large format printing of the official poster for this year!
(Pictured is last year’s DB poster as current year is not finished)
I can’t believe we did this so early in the last day!!!!!!
Guys we have passed HALF A MILLION DOLLARS with still at LEAST SEVEN HOURS left in Desert Bus 8. Let’s keep this magic bus rolling!
Joystiq is the definitive source for news about the video game industry. Featuring game reviews, videos, screenshots, and great previews, you won’t find a more enthusiastic and passionate group of journalists covering the games you love. We’re incredibly thankful for Joystiq’s corporate support at this year’s Desert Bus; this is their first year being a sponsor and it’s been a great time! Thank you, Joystiq!