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Game developers team up for charity

Gamesaid aiming for £2,000 in donations

First 200 participants to receive free download code for Football Manager 2012

First 200 participants to receive free download code for Football Manager 2012

Think you know your football? Prove it and help raise money for charity in the process. GamesAid has teamed up with Sega and Football Manager developer Sports Interactive or a champion tipster competition for Euro 2012. All participants have to do is answer a series of questions on what they …

Italian bundle gives indie fans the chance to help Emilia Romagna region

A charity 5-A-Side football event held by HMV and sponsored by Microsoft has raised 19k for Teenage Cancer Trust. Sony Music emerged as the winners of the tournament, having come from two goals down to topple runners up OMD 4-3. Sony Music’s Ryan Slack was named as the player of …

Organisation speaks to the charities it has supported thanks to the games industry

GamesAid has released its annual video talking to the charities it has supported with the help of games industry donations. The six charities featured this year were Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Lifelites, Volunteer Centre Sutton: MAPS, SpecialEffect and The Willow Foundation. Each one received a donation of 29,000 in 2011 …

GamesAid will once again be asking attendees at this year’s MCV Awards to donate just 10. All donations will be then split amongst partner charities, as voted for by members of the UK games industry later in the year. The organisation aimsto raise 4,000 by the end of the night. …