Fundraising
GameBlast21 Raises over GameBlast21 £228,000
The final total is in: SpecialEffect’s GameBlast21 charity weekend raises over £228,000 The total raised for GameBlast21, the UK’s largest charity gaming weekend, has been confirmed at £228,300 ($317,...
GameBlast21: Industry joins community for SpecialEffect’s vital fundraising weekend
Staff from EA DICE, Mediatonic, SEGA Europe, Unit 2, Fanatical and many other games industry companies will be joining hundreds of gamers and gaming communities from around the world in supporting Spe...
Game Theory $1,000,000 Challenge for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital triples goal, raises $3,000,000
During an over nine-hour charity stream on #GivingTuesday that included highlights like a robotic haircut, an IQ trivia challenge, a $25,000 donation hidden in a tub full of canned vegetables, the wor...
The JINGLE JAM 2020 Kicks Off, Games Bundle Now Live
The Jingle Jam, the world’s biggest games charity event, has kicked off two weeks of fundraising with the launch of the 2020 Jingle Jam Games Bundle today. Available by donating £25 or more to the Jin...
Games industry unites to support SpecialEffect with most successful One Special Day ever
Gamers’ charity SpecialEffect is delighted to announce that, thanks to a record number of partners from the games industry, their One Special Day fundraising campaign on Friday 2nd October has raised ...
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...
STUDIO WILDCARD REVEALS ARK: GENESIS SECRETS DURING $90K+ TEAM FUNDRAISING FOR EXTRA LIFE!
This past Saturday during its 24-hour livestream for the ExtraLife charity, the Studio Wildcard Team, along with its community and ExtraLife partner team, raised over $91,000 and beat its highest amou...
JDRF Teams Up with Video Game Industry to Fight Type 1 Diabetes
JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research, is announcing a new fundraising effort in partnership with the video game industry. Spearheaded by the nonprofit’s S...
The games industry mobile-ises for One Special Charity Day
For the fourth year running, the mobile games industry has come out in force to support SpecialEffect’s One Special Day fundraising event to help more severely disabled people from all over the world ...