Congrats, you cruel, cruel people. Thanks to your generosity, our own James Turner now has to play Desert Bus for 12 hours. This is more Desert Bus than I think anyone has ever played before in one sitting (possibly a lie?), and certainly enough to kill a man. You should all be proud.

Thanks to Owen at Kotaku for the fantastic writeup :). Remember, the more coverage we get, the more viewers we can grab, and the more viewers we have, the longer we’ll probably have to go. Let your favourite blog know about Desert Bus :).

We just had a MUCH FASTER internet connection donated at the 11th hour. We are about to make the switch, but be aware: something could go wrong. Stay tuned.

Update: As of right now it looks like we’re going to start a little late; however the new internet connection works, so that’s a plus. We wont be very late in any case (and obviously we’ll honour the actual start time). Sorry guys!

James has just returned from Denver to remind us of the rules for his $10 000 challenge.

I am also publicly stating my $10,000.00 challange. If we can manage to raise $10,000.00 before the event starts I will personally drive for the first 12 hours of the event. 6PM until 6AM. If we are at $8000.00 or more at the start of the event you then have 4 hours (my first official shift) to raise the final $2000.00 and I will honour the challange and go for 12 hours straight (at which point I will probably cry myself to sleep)

This means we have 30 minutes to raise just shy of $1,860 to get an extension on the $10 000 we ultimately need to raise make him drive for 12 straight hours. If you’ve been holding out for a worthy reason to donate, this might be it! Let’s make him drive until his thumbs BLEED.

Hold on to your seats, guys and gals: Elevator’s own Woody Tondorf has entered the LoadingReadyRun moonbase. Incidentally did you see the latest Elevator update? The one that’s more-or-less a giant Desert Bus promotion?

It’s awesome: go look!

Also: Rosco P Jangles IV had entered the building.

Our friends at The Escapist Magazine have started a fantastic portal on their site, amalgamating our feeds, our twitter, our donation total, and some cool content of their own on a super-sweet hub site. If you’re a member of the Escapist community–and even if you’re not–totally go check it out; you could win a special avatar badge :).

Update: also check out the fantastic writeup The Escapist has done for us. Thanks, guys :)!

As of several minutes ago, we’ve been linked on Daily Radar. If you’re looking for a place to promote Desert Bus, remember that your every vote, digg or stumble counts. Let’s shoot hte moon this year and take this thing all the way … to Vegas … and back!

Thanks to Joystiq and Wired News for the lovely writeups. It’s thanks to coverage like this that Desert Bus has been able to gain the traction it has over the years, and to raise as much as it has.

Remember, folks, to let your favourite media sources know about Desert Bus. They can contact us at contact@desertbus.org.

A big part of what makes Desert Bus so fun is that we get to give away and auction off some amazing things. This year we’ve had an amazing amount of help from some corporate sponsors to make sure we have even bigger and better prizes.

We would like to say a big thank you to Hothead Games, Oni Press, Penny Arcade, The Escapist, Antec, Harmonix and Twisted Pixel Games. Please check out our sponsors page for more information!

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