This past PAX South 2019 was, as always, a fabulous extravaganza of video gaming fun! We here at Stack-Up had the great honor of spending it in the company of some remarkable individuals, our PAX South 2019 Air Assaults. We sat down to chat with these three about their experience in San Antonio at PAX South and now we would like to share that with you. Sit back and hit play as we experience the magic of PAX through the eyes of these amazing veterans! We are thrilled that our

One of these partners looking to get into the gaming space is none other than Caesars Entertainment, the legendary Nevada gaming corporation with dozens of branded hotels, casinos, and golf courses. They have created what they call a “Streamer Suite” in the 50th-floor penthouse of the Rio Hotel on the Vegas Strip. Caesars is interested in getting big name streamers like your Ninjas and your Dr. Disrespects of the world to come and stay at their hotel. They also are savvy enou

Central Ohio Chapter of the Stacks – Event at Warped Wing BY: Chad Christian The Central Ohio chapter of The Stacks held its first official event at Warped Wing Brewery in Dayton, OH on Saturday, September 22nd. Those who played a round of Mario Kart and listened to a brief intro to Stack Up were entered into a drawing to win an NES Classic, a gift basket provided by Warped Wing, and a gift basket provided by a local salon! The whole family was welcome! We had many opportunit

Here’s the backstory: Sony has a group of inclusive employee work groups that cover a variety of populations: African American, Latino, Gay and Transgender, Women in Gaming, and last but certainly not least, a group known as VETS. Honestly, I can’t remember what the acronym for VETS is, but you can bet it’s something to the effect of “Veterans Employee Team at Sony” or some such. Bottom line: Sony has an initiative within their walls, giving their prior service military perso

Redshirts, we have an exciting event coming up this weekend featuring Conan Exiles and some awesome streamers. Starting this Friday, May 11th at 1 pm EST / 10 am PST, Fifty streamers, across ten teams, will compete across special 4x accelerated PVP servers. Each team will have 48 hours to race to the maximum level to kill a World Boss and claim a Legendary Weapon for fame and prizes. They will do this all while raising donations for military gaming charity Stack Up during the

The Stacks – Stacking Up at the Microsoft Store by: Ethan Whinston Members of the Queens chapter of The Stacks gathered with Microsoft employees at the flagship Microsoft store in Midtown Manhattan to hand off video games to army veteran, Marvin Cadet and his fiancee, Judith. The games, a Wii console, and several game discs were given to the Queens Stack by employees of the Microsoft store to use for the benefit of Stack Up and military veterans. Cadet, who was deployed in Ir

The Stacks – Stacking Up with SCA and Mission Continues by: Ethan Whinston Take a moment as we check in with the latest action out of our Queens Chapter of The Stacks! On January 18, members of the Queens chapter of The Stacks participated in a Martin Luther King Day event run by the Student Conservation Association. The Queens Stack participated with a contingent from The Mission Continues. The event was a restoration of historic St. Nicholas Park in Harlem. The SCA has made

Calling All Guardians! Stack Up with us as we celebrate the release of Destiny: Curse of Osiris! This December 8th through the 10th all weekend long streamers will be playing the latest Destiny Content as we celebrate the Holidays of Osiris. Join some of your favorite Destiny streamers for a weekend of fun as we all Stack Up and raise donations to help our mission of supporting US and Allied Troops with gaming! Not only that, but we also have two Destiny Raid slots for a priv

What is Call To Arms? Call To Arms is our year-long charity drive that supports our mission of using the awesome power of gaming to support “US, UK, Canada, NATO, Australian and New Zealand” veterans around the world! Through this initiative, we are able to fund and expand our three main programs The Stacks, Supply Crates, and Air Assaults and allows us to continue to support amazing veterans everywhere! The weekend of November 11th will be our Second Annual Veterans Day Call

The weekly Bored Room meeting for the week of October 11th, 2017! Stephen Call to Arms Veterans Appreciation Week at Twitch Long Beach Monday for Office Move Nightmare Actual Friday the 13th, please let us know if you can take part, would like to get the Redshirts together for a night of murdering each other Immortal Conquest Cuddles Call to Arms 30 days out (sign up link http://bit.ly/c2anov17 ) Shanghai Scouts Friday the 13th Skatch New Content Creators – Sign Up Steve Love

Check out episode six of the Stack-Up podcast the Red Shirt Report! Tune in each and every week on Twitch.TV/StackUpDotOrg for another great episode of the Red Shirt Report. We go live directly after the Bored Room meeting. Topics this week include: Ask a Vet Should a Civilian Salute? http://www.strawpoll.me/14026324/r Does Piracy equal lost sales? The rise of Retro gaming! Plus we recap the Bored Room meeting and have plenty of Stack-Up news! #stackup #podcast #gaming #chari

The weekly Bored Room meeting for the week of September 27th, 2017! Stephen No notes… Cuddles Call to arms Shanghai Scouts Need Volunteer hours? We need to talk tonight TwitchCon incoming. Skatch Tyler’s Rig – Video https://youtu.be/mR24MJzGXLg Ubisoft Review List – South Park – Assassin’s Creed and more reviews! Red Shirt Report with Clu and Cuddles after the meeting and if you miss it check it out on YouTube plus the meeting too! Dave Categories have been implemented in RSR

The weekly Bored Room meeting for the week of September 20th, 2017! Stephen One Gamer Fund event this weekend, Steam interview tomorrow? Get out there and support our people. 50 days left to Call to Arms Prepping for October 7th actual board meeting Stream, Twitter value (Dead Cells), Twitter Am being honored by the Sage Foundation Rated Top Great Non-Profits, let’s keep going! Cuddles Call to Arms LittleSiha ResurrectionFern Many many more to come Scouts Activate! Skatch Dau

Episode Three of the weekly Stack-Up podcast the Red Shirt Report! Tune in each and every week on Twitch.TV/StackUpDotOrg for another great episode of the Red Shirt Report. We go live directly after the Bored Room meeting. Topics this week include: PAX West Hype! Bungie’s Luke Smith PAX West Keynote. The military is using Augmented Reality to train soldiers. Plus we recap the Bored Room meeting and have plenty of Stack-Up news! #stackup #Vodcast #podcast #veterans #charity #S

Episode Two of the weekly Stack-Up podcast the Red Shirt Report! Tune in each and every week on Twitch.TV/StackUpDotOrg for another great episode of the Red Shirt Report. We go live directly after the Bored Room meeting. Topics this week include: AI In gaming. Is the Terminator coming? Ask a Vet! Is it OK for Civilians to wear Veteran Culture apparel? (Vet type T-shirts and gear) Random Twitch Virality! Plus we recap the Bored Room meeting and have plenty of Stack-Up news! #s

The weekly Bored Room meeting for the week of August 16th, 2017! Stephen Big thanks to Aggressive Jedi for securing TheUnit and its stream event for Stack-Up There are a dozen different things we are working on for veterans day, but until I get something actually locked in, I don’t want to get people excited about anything by talking about it here. One thing we have locked in: Global Game Jam’s “One Gamer Fund” (Extra Life, Able Gamers, Child’s Play, IGDA) Red Shirt Rumble Cu

Earlier this month the Red Shirt Raiders descended upon Los Angeles to Stack-Up for the gaming nirvana that is E3. Everything you could possibly imagine gaming related, from new title announcements, and the latest hardware, to the exclusive swag, is there to dazzle and amaze as the industry celebrates the hobby we all love…gaming! From right to left Stack-Up founder Stephen Machuga, Veteran Coordinator Dave Crouse and Air Assaults Richard Glass, Michael Anthony Carrasquillo,

This weekend, May 5th-7th, we are happy to announce an amazing Stack-Up.Org Charity Streaming event in conjunction with the developers at Robot Entertainment and the Twitch Teams: Khalico and Twitch Kittens! Starting on Friday, May 5th and continuing all weekend long until Sunday, May 7th, some amazing streamers will be raising donations for veterans through Stack-Up while playing the new Orcs Must Die Unchained 3v3 mode, Sabotage, all weekend long! Best of all donations will

We check in with another recent Supply Crate that was sent out to help a Marine reconnect with a battle buddy. The request comes to us from Frank who after being deployed is going through a rough patch readjusting to civilian life. Check out the request below… I have trouble sleeping at night. A friend of mine suggested I get a game system to keep in touch with him online and we would be able to play together. The only issue is I cannot afford to spend money on myself. Things

Guns Of Icarus Alliance. Corresponding with the launch of Guns of Icarus’ single player expansion Alliance, Stack-Up, Gamechangers, Save The Children, and Doctors without Borders played hundreds of matches of steampunk airship battles in the skies over this fictitious “Risk” (board game) style map. Each win would allow the Charities in-game faction to gain ground on the giant metagame map, with the four factions trading territories back and forth all weekend long. At the end