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The UK games industry can nominate charities to receive thousands of pounds from GamesAid, later this month. Between August 17th and August 28th, GamesAid members can put forward organisations they feel are deserving of receiving some of the funds it has raised. Only members of GamesAid are able to nominate …
Read More »Develop Awards raises close to £2,000 for GamesAid
£1,987.50 raised at last week’s awards ceremony in Brighton
Read More »GamesAid industry poker tournament raises nearly £7k for charity
Save the Children’s Maral Moghadasi beats Jon Hare and Samuel Rantaeskola to win
Read More »Full House: GamesAid industry poker tournament raises almost £7,000 for charity
GamesAid broke its own poker tournament fundraising record earlier this week, with the industry chipping in almost 7,000 towards the charity. Relentless Software, the developer behind the Buzz! series of quiz titles, served as one of the sponsors of the evening, as well as the host of the event at …
Read More »GamesAid: A Short History
GamesAid is the spiritual successor to games industry charitable initiatives SoftAid in the 1980s and ESC (The Entertainment Software Charity) in the early noughties, both led by Rod Cousens. GamesAid was formed in late 2007 by the Trustees, Greg Ingham (who was chair, ex CEO of Future Publishing and founder …
Read More »Why you should get involved in GamesAid
Out of all the things that the UK games industry has achieved over the past decade, GamesAid must stand as the best. The industry charity has raised well over 1.2m since it launched to support children from all walks of life. Yet its impact goes beyond changing the lives of …
Read More »GamesAid Tenner raises £3,088 at MCV Awards 2015
Games industry charity GamesAid raised more than 3,000 at last week’s MCV Awards. Attendees of the event were invited to give via either envelope – of which there was one on each table – or by text, by texting GAID1010 to 70070 in order to donate 10. The total amount …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Emily Britt
Emily Britt,PR manager at The PokmonCompany and GamesAid chair, tells MCV about her career working with some of the most iconic titles in video game history Tell us about your career in games. I started as a localisation tester in QA at GT Interactive, testing Abe’s Odyssey and Abe’s Exodus. …
Read More »GMG’s Tracey McGarrigan becomes GamesAid trustee
Games industry charity GamesAid has welcomed Green Man Gaming’s Tracey McGarrigan as its latest trustee. McGarrigan joined the games industry in 2010 as Sci-Fi-London.com’s games editor before subsequently joining GMG as head of global PR and communications. "I’m so proud to now be a trustee,” McGarrigan said. My legs are …
Read More ȣ438,000: GamesAid smashes industry charity record
At London’s Earls Court today, GamesAid revealed that it had raised 438,000 for seven charities over the last 12 months. It’s a huge increase over the previous year’s 260,000, which in itself was a record for the now six-year old games industry charity. In total, GamesAid has raised over 1.2m …
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