NEWS | Stack Up

May 4, 2020
2 min

Stack Up in the Kitchen With Your Favorite Nerdy Food

If social distancing is keeping you from eating out at your favorite restaurants, then allow us to help you out by introducing you to some of our favorite nerdy food cooking YouTube channels. We know that being creative in the kitchen is quite challenging, so we thought it would be nice to give you some options to make yourself a meal worthy of a true gamer. The channels bellow have created all nerdy foods, snacks, desserts, and cocktails you could imagine. There is something

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Stack Up in the Kitchen With Your Favorite Nerdy Food

Apr 18, 2020
1 min

Supply Crate – Kyle

Hey, we have some more awesome news about another supply crate mission. We flew this one out to our new friend Kyle and his friends who are all air advisers for the Iraqi Air force. lets learn some more about them shall we? What better way than to bond over playing some games together, eh? We love supporting our service members when we can, and you boys definitely sound like you could use a crate. Stand by and we’ll get one to you asap. Kyle was stoked when he received his cr

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Supply Crate – Kyle

Apr 17, 2020
6 min

Gym Closed? Don’t like working out to begin with? Trapped at home with little to no equipment?

So, let’s say hypothetically you are under a stay-at-home order, are quarantined, practicing social distancing, or your gym is just closed. What is a gaming warrior like yourself to do to stay in shape? More importantly, how do you stay active inside, and not hate the act of doing so? Well, fear not, we’ve got you covered with some VR suggestions, Ring Fit (if you can FIND it), and some good ole between match mini-workouts you can do to keep the old dad (or ma) bod at bay. Be

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Gym Closed? Don’t like working out to begin with? Trapped at home with little to no equipment?

Apr 16, 2020
2 min

Supply Crate – Justin

Are you ready to hear about our latest supply crate story? Well then, without further adieu, we would love to introduce you to Justin who served from 2002-2007. When Justin told us his story of why he needed a supply crate, we simply couldn’t deny him. we’ll let him tell you himself: My name is Justin. I served from 02-07 and my deployment was like any other I supposed. We were deployed to Ali-Aslin Iraq in 2006 when we came in under fire and were bombard with IED’s at night

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Supply Crate – Justin

Apr 14, 2020
2 min

Supply Crate – Joseph

Hello everyone and welcome to another Supply Crate mission report, we have made another new friend and we’d like to tell you all about him. This supply crate was sent to California to a combat veteran infantryman named Joseph who suffers from severe PTSD. Joseph used to play ps3 with his battle buddies to relieve himself from the stress of his deployment… but enough from us, we’ll let Joseph tell you more: Hello there, I am a Combat veteran Infantryman. I’ve always been passi

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Supply Crate – Joseph

Apr 11, 2020
4 min

Kemono Heroes Review | The Four Musketeers

While watching a Nintendo Direct, I was eagerly anticipating releases of new and exciting games. When I saw the trailer for Kemono Heroes, and once I saw the publisher, I knew this was the next game I’d want to review. The trailer showed threw me off at first because I assumed that this was a fighting game, which I’m not exactly great at. After looking up gameplay videos, it was relieved to find that this was actually an action side scroller. Not only that, but it reminded me

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Kemono Heroes Review | The Four Musketeers

Apr 5, 2020
2 min

Supply Crate – Jon

We have a touching story to tell you about this supply crate. This request was submitted by a virtuous individual named Dustin, who sent in the application for his brother-in-law, Jon, a vet that has been going through a series of personal struggles. Jon served as a sergeant in the marines in 1/5 Charlie company in Round Rock, Texas. According to Ross, Jon is living in a very small apartment with very little to his name and would benefit greatly from one of Stack Up’s supply

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Supply Crate – Jon

Apr 3, 2020
2 min

Supply Crate – Kyle

We have some great news! Another supply crate has been successfully received by another amazing group of veterans we can’t wait to tell you more about. We had to hustle during this mission to make sure we could get games to these soldiers as fast as we could. The request came from Kyle, lets let him tell you why his troop needed these games fast: I am an instructor Pilot in B troop 3-17 CAV based at Hunter army airfield. B Troop 3-17 CAV is about to head out the door for anot

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Supply Crate – Kyle

Apr 2, 2020
4 min

Half Past Fate Review | Six Degrees of Separation

Half Past Fate by: Fernando DaCosta Publisher: Way Down Deep Developer: Serenity Forge Retail Price: $19.99 US With nothing to do, I decided to go into the eShop. My mission was trying to find my next review. That’s when I stumbled upon Half Past Fate, a game I hadn’t heard anything about. What attracted me to it initially was the aesthetic. As I read the description, it’s heavy reliance on story sold it to me and my inner author demanded it. I had to review this game Straig

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Half Past Fate Review | Six Degrees of Separation

Apr 1, 2020
2 min

Supply Crate – Alejandro

Another day, another supply crate safely delivered to another veteran in need. We shipped out this crate to Alex, a mental health technician who created a program that uses gaming to help veterans with mental health problems. We couldn’t help but to aid an ally in need against such a noble cause. Let’s learn a little more about Alex: I am a combat marine corps veteran. Did served deployments with 3rd light armored reconnaissance in Iraq and Afghanistan. I currently work with

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Supply Crate – Alejandro

Mar 3, 2020
3 min

Wargaming is Ready to Stack Up to Support Veterans

Operation Lifeboat aims to raise funds and awareness for 24/7 crisis intervention and peer-to-peer mental health support Austin, TX, March 3, 2020 — Wargaming, the developer of World of Warships, is ready to stack up to raise money and awareness for military veterans in need of mental health support. Wargaming will introduce a special bundle within its highly popular World of Warships online game over a nine-week period, with 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the bundle t

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Wargaming is Ready to Stack Up to Support Veterans

Oct 19, 2019
4 min

PTSD, Hearing, and Gaming

PTSD, Hearing, and Gaming by: Ali PTSD is a common condition among veterans, with statistics showing that around 12 out of every 100 Gulf War Veterans, in particular, have PTSD during a given year. PTSD poses a big challenge for those battling it, with symptoms including intrusive thoughts, increased arousal, and sensory sensitivity. A 2019 study has found that this condition has a major effect on noise and light sensitivity in particular. The findings indicate the extent to

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PTSD, Hearing, and Gaming

Jul 19, 2019
2 min

Supply Crate – Accidental Surprise

It is always great when we get a Supply Crate quest on someone’s behalf. This comes to us from Aimee who was helping gaming would provide some distraction for her husband who suffers from PTSD. Take a look at the full request below! I am nominating my husband and hope he gets approved. He is 100% permanent and totally disabled and struggles with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as traumatic brain injury. I am hoping maybe him being blessed by this organization th

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Supply Crate – Accidental Surprise

Jul 10, 2019
3 min

Lust From Beyond (Demo)

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1035120/Lust_from_Beyond/ Reviewer: Daniel “Nightmare-ACTUAL” Patterson Case #000-017 Codename: Cerberus Now, I don’t know where the hell to start with this one. This is only the beginning of this as the game has not come out, yet. It is a game in its early development stages, checking out the steam page there is no release date posted, yet. The build I could play through Keymailer is their Kickstarter demo. Let’s talk about their Kickstar

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Lust From Beyond (Demo)

Mar 16, 2019
1 min

Supply Crate – Hundred Heroes #32

It is time that we check in with another of our Hundred Heroes Supply Crate recipients! This one comes to us from Jesus who is in the Army. Keep reading to check out the full request below… I have been in the Army 11 years, I’m an Instructor at AMEDD C&S for the 68P students. Just returned from deployment a couple of months ago (June 2018) and PCSd to Fort Sam. In my free time I like to game, playing Madden, Call of Duty, Halo, NBA 2K, but I don’t currently have a system. My

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Supply Crate – Hundred Heroes #32

Feb 4, 2019
1 min

PAX South 2019 Air Assaults Recap!

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

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PAX South 2019 Air Assaults Recap!

Jan 22, 2019
3 min

Marvel’s The Punisher – A Look Back at Season 1

Marvel’s The Punisher Reviewer: Daniel “Nightmare-ACTUAL” Patterson Case # 000-010 Codename: Cerberus Who is Frank Castle? Francis “Frank” Castle (Born Francis Castiglione) is a fictional American character. Created by writer Gerry Conway, drawn by John Romita Sr; Ross Andru and published by Stan Lee. Stan was the person who greenlit the name; “The Punisher.” When I was younger, I remember the first time I came into contact with Punisher. It was around 1990 I had gotten NES

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Marvel’s The Punisher – A Look Back at Season 1

Jan 16, 2019
4 min

Air Assault – Stacking Up for PAX South 2019

With PAX South 2019 rapidly approaching we wanted to take a moment to introduce you to the incredible Veterans who will be joining us on what will be the first of many Air Assault missions in 2019! Our Air Assault program is where we hand-pick deserving veterans and bring them, all expenses paid, to attend life-changing video game and geek culture events, whether it be a Comic-Con, an Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), a Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) or even a game developer studi

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Air Assault – Stacking Up for PAX South 2019

Jan 7, 2019
2 min

Supply Crate Hundred Heroes #4

This one was a fun request to fulfill and it is in the best spirit of our Hundred Heroes end of year campaign. The request is for a former Attack Helicopter pilot named Anthony, but interestingly he did not submit the application. This Supply Crate request came from Anthony’s wife, who was looking for a little holiday surprise for your husband. I am requesting this Supply Crate for my husband. He medically retired from the Army after 14 years of active duty service. He found

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Supply Crate Hundred Heroes #4

Jan 6, 2019
3 min

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – Review

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch Case # 000-009 Codename: Bandersnatch Years ago I used to live in Monahans, Texas. I can’t remember much of the school name and the specific town. My late father worked as a writer for a local newspaper. At a young age going to the local school. I did not spend much time at the library but I did pick up books daily. In that time I read many books. Most of them highly regarded in the literature community, and among those books were these “Choose Your

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch – Review