Charity
AWESOME GAMES DONE QUICK 2020 BEGINS THIS WEEKEND CELEBRATING 10 YEARS OF THE ANNUAL SPEEDRUNNING MARATHON
Games Done Quick, a grassroots organization known for its speedrunning charity events, will be hosting Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2020 at the DoubleTree Hilton at the Entrance to Universal Orland...
DrLupo to host second 24-hour livestream for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®, aims to break record with $2.7 million fundraising goal
Professional gaming streamer Benjamin “DrLupo” Lupo announces his second annual 24-hour livestream to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® on December 21 at noon CT/1p.m.ET. This year, DrLup...
SENNHEISER LAUNCHES ‘SEASON OF GIVING’ CHARITY PROGRAM TO BENEFIT GAMING COMMUNITIES
Renowned audio brand Sennheiser is giving back to the gaming community through its Season of Giving program, an initiative designed to spread the joy of gaming to those in need. Sennheiser is donating...
ANGRY BIRDS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF POPPING PIGGIES & USING ANGER FOR GOOD
Ten years ago today, the first Angry Birds game was released on the App Store, introducing the world to the flock that would be ever-present on app stores and grow to an entertainment brand spawning t...
GameBlast 2020: SpecialEffect aim for £1M in ‘the best excuse to game ever’
SpecialEffect’s annual GameBlast fundraising spectacular is back over the weekend of 21-23 February 2020, and the charity are inviting gamers to hit £1M raised over the event’s seven-year history. Gam...
Schell Games Partners with play2PREVENT to Tackle Opioid Addiction and Prevention
In an effort to deter adolescents from using and misusing opioids, game development company Schell Games is working in conjunction with the play2PREVENT (p2P) Lab at the Yale Center for Health & L...
World of Warship Players Help Muskogee War Memorial Park Save Historic Submarine
Wargaming has partnered with Muskogee War Memorial Park to raise money to repair the USS Batfish, which experienced extensive damage due to flooding earlier this year. The USS Batfish was integral to ...
ANGRY BIRDS’ 10TH ANNIVERSARY #BringTheAnger CAMPAIGN CONTINUES WITH THE REVEAL OF THE “VENTING MACHINE”
Rovio Entertainment continues to count down to the official 10th anniversary of Angry Birds on Dec. 11, 2019, with its #BringTheAnger campaign, which aims to show how anger can be converted into posit...
BAFTA YGD award-winning puzzle adventure game, Fractured Minds, launches on multi-platforms to raise support for mental health awareness
Fractured Minds, a first-person puzzle adventure game highlighting the impact of mental health issues, launched today digitally on PC, Nintendo™ Switch, the PlayStation®4 Entertainment System, and Xbo...
Twitch marathon for type 1 diabetes starts today with giveaways of Red Dead Redemption swag, Nintendo Switch consoles, and more
More than 60 streamers are taking to Twitch today to try to raise $100k for type 1 diabetes research. The weeklong marathon is organized by JDRF, a global nonprofit whose mission is to improve lives t...
ANGRY BIRDS 10TH ANNIVERSARY CAMPAIGN ENCOURAGES FANS TO #BringTheAnger AS A POSITIVE FORCE FOR GOOD
Since the original Angry Birds debuted nearly 10 years ago, the beloved mobile game and its many hit follow-ups and spin-offs have been downloaded over 4.5 billion times collectively. Today millions o...
MEGAN FOX AND BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN CO-HOST THE PUBG MOBILE #FIGHT4THEAMAZON CAMPAIGN TO HELP GLOBAL GREEN RESTORE THE AMAZON
PUBG MOBILE, one of the most popular video games in the world and the official mobile version of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS, has partnered with Global Green, a world-renowned non-profit, for ...