Charity

Charity headlines

• The latest Humble Bundle is full of great stories

  There seems to be a heavy narrative focus in the Humble ‘Game On’ Bundle, which includes some wonderful narrative-focused games.

• Playerunknown's Battlegrounds Charity Invitational just raised over $220,000

  The huge popularity of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds may have just saved some lives.

• Blizzard is getting involved in World of Warcraft's unofficial 'Running of the Gnomes'

  Blizzard is introducing tweaks that will cater to World of Warcraft players who partake in the ‘Running of the Gnomes’, a fan-run in-game event run to promote breast cancer awareness.

• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has sold over 2 million copies, devs kick off Charity Invitational

  PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is a hit. It has sold over 2 million copies since it went live through Steam Early Access on March 24.

• GamesAid invites you to laugh it up for charity at The Comedy Store, London on May 8

  GamesAid, the UK based video games charity, is hosting a night of laughs at The Comedy Store next month for a great cause.

• That fantastic, huge Humble Freedom Bundle earned a lot of money for charity

  The Humble Freedom Bundle was a huge fundraising success, bringing in $6.73m.

• Get Volume and Grim Dawn on the cheap in the latest Humble Bundle, and help support essential multiple sclerosis services and research

  This is a good Humble Bundle.

• The limited edition GayStation raised over $4,000

  The limited edition PlayStation being auctioned for a LGBT charity has raised over $4,000.

• This 'GayStation' PS4 can be yours - if you're feeling very charitable

  This very limited edition ‘GayStation’ PS4 paint job is being auctioned off for charity.

• Extra Life site knocked out by hackers

  The Extra Life video game streaming marathons for charity began this morning, but a few hours ago the event’s main site went offline. The event’s director Jeromy Adams has now said on the Extra Life facebook page that the downtime occurred because the site was DDoSed.

• GamesAid announces successful charities for 2012

  UK video games charity GamesAid has revealed the winners for its 2012 funding prize. Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Small Steps, Special Effect and The Willow Foundation received the plaudits and £36,000 in funding.

• Guild Wars 2-sponsored bike ride enters final leg

  NCSoft PR head Cat Channon, Mark Allen (Kalypso), David Priestman (Future), James Beaven (Indigo Pearl), Nick Haywood (Kuoda), Graeme Struthers (GetGamesGo), Nathan Ditum (Future) and Sarah Ditum (freelance) are cycling back to the UK from gamescom in an effort to raise money for the GamesAid charity. They’re going to be back in Britain tomorrow after […]

• Plants vs Zombies' Crazy Dave releases hip hop song for charity

  You might remember this video from way back in September. PopCap originally released this video during TGS for no apparent reason at all. Today we’re getting word that PopCap has made the song available for download on iTunes with all of the profits going to charity. The charity involved is called Concern Worldwide and works […]

• SEGA USA auctions rare stuff for Japanese earthquake relief

  SEGA of America is auctioning a ton of memorabilia – some of it rare, some not so rare – and donating all the profits to the Red Cross for the Japanese earthquake aid effort.

• Japan quake: Sony delays Motorstorm Apocalypse in UK

  Sony’s confirmed it’s to delay the UK release of Evolution racer Motorstorm Apocalypse following last week’s earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

• Fourth annual Desert Bus for Hope kicks off, people marathon worst game of all time for charity

  Want to see good people play a really, really bad game to help other good people? Then take a gander at this.

• GamesAid charity scaling mountains to raise money for good cause

  GamesAid, a game industry charity that aims primarily to help children, has finally figured out a way to make raising money X-treme: by scaling large rocks in dangerously small amounts of time. Rad. Martyn Northall, Richard Slater, Matt West-Robinson and Dermot Stapleton, employees of Just Flight and Mastertronic, are set to tackle the aptly named […]

• Ubisoft releases Handigo, says subtitles to be as standard

  With the proviso to make video games more accessible, Ubisoft has released Handigo The Game: a “serious game” created in conjunction with Handicap International as part of the Ability Together campaign. Ubisoft has also announced that from now on, all its in-house titles will include subtitles. Handigo consists of three mini-games “that each represent a […]