EA announced an interesting DLC offering for SimCity this month that’s tied to a charitable cause. Starting in September and going on for a year, the Red Cross can turn up in your city and help with disaster relief efforts.
I like games, but I also like charity and cheap stuff. The team at Humble Bundle appear to have read my mind when they started combining great games and the ability to pay as much (or as little) as you wish between the developer/Humble/charity. The latest bundle includes Dead Space 3 and Burnout Paradise for whatever you wish to pay. You also get Battlefield 3 if you pay a little more than the average.
This past weekend, Co-Optimus and hundreds of other organizations teamed together to generate roughly 2 million dollars to the Children’s Miracle Network through the 2012 Extra Life fundraiser. Though slightly different in the fundraising approach than us, the developers of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will join in this charity season through the new "Halloween Skin Pack" DLC, where all its proceeds will go directly to charity.
This is one of those news posts that has that meta co-op element to it along side a real co-op element. If it's been a while since you've played some Halo Reach, you might want to jump back in, as this year marks the 6th year for the Halo FLAG tournament. Fight Like a Girl is a charity fund raising tournament where players compete against each via Xbox Live and raise money for Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer research.
Tickets which should be of interest to anyone loopy enough for all things Call of Duty will go on sale next Tuesday, July 19th. These tickets grant access to the first ever Call of Duty XP (short for "experience"), held in Los Angeles, California on September 02nd and 03rd.
The Humble Indie Bundle was first released last year as an experiment of sorts. A few independent PC developers got together and released their games, DRM free, for a name your price sale that not only supported them - but various charities like Child's Play. A second bundle was released a few months later continuing the tradition and success, but today marks the first time that a publisher has gotten on board with the unique approach.
You're running harder than you ever have before. You can hear yourself panting and the crunch of your boots on the snow-covered gravel. Snowflakes fall peacefully, a stark contrast to the close-quarters battle at hand. Death could be around the next corner. Toss a flashbang, or not? The sound would give you away, but you can't risk letting the enemy have the element of surprise. If there's someone waiting for you to step into their crosshairs, they'll put you down for sure. You hear the chatter of gunfire somewhere behind you and to your left. Two frag grenades can be heard exploding, and then relative quiet. It's enough of a distraction that you make your move, and dash around the corner-- only to stop in your tracks at the sight of two enemy combatants. One raises his rifle at you. Your breath catches in your chest. Your heart stops.
Registration is open for Halo: Reach players to participate in the two-day FLAG (Fight Like A Girl) tournament. Registration costs $10 per person, or $20 per four-player team, and the event takes place from Saturday, October 23rd to Sunday, October 24th. Co-op gamers are not left out - Firefight is featured as one of the four accepted modes.
In simplest terms, co-op is just a bunch of people working together towards a common goal. And while the latest Lost Planet 2 demo is a versus only affair, simply downloading it gets Capcom one step closer to donating $20,000 dollars to charity.
Every year the fine folks at Penny-Arcade put together a charity drive of epic proportions to benefit sick children. Called Child's Play, the charity event spans the internet raising what literally amounts to millions of dollars, all from gamers.
The TechKnow Podcast is doing something special to raise money for the Make a Wish Foundation. They've teamed up with Epic Games, makers of co-op greats Gears of War and Gears of War 2, and created a one of a kind Xbox 360 to auction off. The box features a hand-drawn Crimson Omen by none other than Epic’s own senior concept artist, James Hawkins.
In a surprising but pleasant twist to the usual video game marketing story, Activision has partnered with the United Service Organization to connect members of the United States Armed Forces with civilian gamers via Call of Duty: World at War and Guitar Hero III. The idea of the project is to boost moral, a mission that the USO was f...
