With your help, we raised $10,000.71 for charity: water during UPickVG 5! That’s 333 people who get clean water access FOR LIFE, thanks to your support! And what’s more, we’ve raised over $31,942 for worthy charities over the lifetime of UPickVG! From the bottom of our hearts, thank you for all the tuning in, donating,… Read More »
For our 5th big charity game-a-thon, the UPickVG crew is proud to be venturing off to a brand new, undiscovered land: Refraction co-working space in Reston, Virginia! “But wait!” you exclaim, because you are very clever, and you not only read the title of this post, but you also distinctly remember UPickVG IV last year… Read More »
On Saturday June 4th starting at 12:30pm and ending at 1:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Mini Museum! This desktop acrylic museum contains ten amazing artifacts from earth and beyond. The Mini Museum is a portable collection of curiosities where every item is authentic, iconic and labeled. It’s been carefully designed to… Read More »
On Saturday June 4th starting at 4:30pm and ending at 5:30pm ET, we will be giving away a bundle of games via Steam. This collection covers a wide variety of genres and includes the following games: The U-Pick Crew is very grateful to our own Doctor Gyarados for his donation to UPickVG 5, and we look forward to… Read More »
Last year during UPickVG IV, we introduced a really fun game mechanic to our game-a-thon: Mystery Games. We had no idea how well it would go over. Would people hate it? After all, the name of our fundraiser is “U-Pick…” as in, YOU pick the games we play on air. What fun is picking if… Read More »
On Saturday June 4th starting at 6:30pm and ending at 7:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Gravity Gun Replica. This Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator is an officially licensed Half-Life 2 collectible made by NECA. The device is a life-size 1:1 scale replica of Gordon Freeman’s fantastic contraption. It features orange LEDs, 2 handles, 2… Read More »
On Saturday June 4th starting at 9:30pm and ending at 10:30pm ET, we will be giving away a bundle of Fallout 4 merchandise, along with a PS4 DLC code. This bundle has all sorts of useful items for lone wanderers of the wasteland, including: Fallout 4 Vault 111 Beanie Travel the Commonwealth in style with this fashionable headgear.… Read More »
We have a number of prizes for the UPickVG 5 charity marathon, donated through our sponsors and players. “Prizes? I love prizes!” you say. We do too! Who doesn’t? What prizes do we have? These! Just a few examples of fabulous prizes we have to give away during UPickVG 5! “How get prizes?” Well my… Read More »
On Sunday June 5th starting at 6:30pm and ending at 7:30pm ET, we will be giving away a Limited Edition Portal Gun Replica. This Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device is an officially licensed Portal/Portal 2 collectible made by NECA. The device is a life-size 1:1 scale replica of Chell’s fantastic contraption, limited to only 5000 pieces worldwide. … Read More »
Want to help spread the word about UPickVG 5, the upcoming game-a-thon funding clean water projects in the developing world? Want to earn shiny Karma points that can be used to enter giveaways, and for bragging rights? Like showing off the awesome heart-controller icon of UPickVG? You friend, are in luck! We’ve got a quick… Read More »