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Comic-Con and Greenlit will feature celebrity livestreams to support Extra Life charity (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Greenlit Content is teaming up with Comic-Con International and Future Tech Live to launch a livestream for the Extra Life charity for gamers and children’s hospitals.

Greenlit, a division of Rekt Global, will host a 10,000-square-feet esports gaming lounge at Comic-Con in San Diego, California, this week to show off the latest games to convention goers. As part of that booth, celebrity guests and influencers will livestream gameplay and raise money for Extra Life and St. Jude’s Chidren’s Research Hospital as part of the 50th anniversary of Comic-Con.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.