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Angry Birds, Clash of Clans, Cut the Rope, Monument Valley and more backing charity drive for Product Red
Read More »Creative Assembly hosts memorial game jam for team member
Charity event will honour senior programmer Simon Franco and raise money for local hospital
Read More »Extra-Life charity event raises $5.5m for children’s hospitals
Gaming-for-charity drive Extra-Life 2014 broke previous fundraising efforts this past weekend, raising at least $5.5m for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Extra-Life’s annual charity effort revolves around a 24-hour gaming marathon, where teams and individual participants gather to livestream games and raise money for good causes. Games Industry reports the charity …
Read More »Playmob named in Talent Unleashed awards
UK firm could win trip to Richard Branson's Centre for Entrepreneurship in South Africa
Read More »GamesAid gives record-breaking £438,000 to partner charities
Special Effect, Lifelites, Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Safe at Last, Accuro and MAPS each receive more than £60,000
Read More »Rovio teams up with Room to Read to promote global literacy
Players of Angry Birds Epic are now able to donate to literacy charity Room to Read by buying an in-game item. In honour of International Literacy Day, which took place on September 8th, Angry Birds Epic is for the next two weeks offering players the chance to purchase a Good …
Read More »Voting for 2014 GamesAid partner charities opens
Industry raises record funding, which will be split between five chosen charities
Read More »PICTURES: GamesAid’s Cologne to Brighton bike ride
Members of the games industry cycling from Gamescom in Cologne back to Brighton have raised over 4,500 for GamesAid. It took the team four days to reach Brighton, passing through the Netherlands, Belgium and France along the way. In total they rode 337 miles over 29 hours and thirty minutes …
Read More »Nominations open for 2014 GamesAid charities
Send in your nominations by August 18th to be in with a chance of being a partner chairty
Read More »GamesAid opens nominations for 2014 charities
Members of games industry charity GamesAid can now put forward organisations for possible support this year. This process opened on Monday August 4th, and will close on Monday August 18th. Any member of the charity may put an organisation forward. Charities put forward should focus on helping disadvantaged or disabled …
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