Save the Children | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Thu, 17 Apr 2014 05:40:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Save the Children | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Gaming for Good charity raises over $10 million https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/matthew-wilson/gaming-for-good-charity-raises-over-10-million/ Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:44:15 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=169188 Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity. Earlier this year, Gaming for Good started giving away game keys …

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Gaming for Good, a charity that was started up by celebrity gamer, Bachir Boumaaza, also known as Athene, has just passed the $10 million raised milestone. All of the money that gamers have donated so far has been passed on to the Save the Children charity.

Earlier this year, Gaming for Good started giving away game keys in exchange for donations, gamers would donate and the bigger their donation, the more points they would receive to spend on a game key. Some big name games have been given away through the charity such as: Metro Last Light, Tomb Raider and Deus EX: Human Revolution while some smaller games have also been donated, including Space Pirates and Zombies and War of the Roses.

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The amount raised this year is ten times more than last year when the charity raised $1 million through the ShareCraft project which donated money for the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa. Since Athene is a famous streamer, Twitch donates most of the subscription revenue from his channel, AtheneLive, to Save The Children's Newborn and Child Survival programs. The reason its most of the subscription revenue and not all of it is down to the fact that Twitch needs to take a bit of the money in order to cover support costs.

KitGuru Says: It's always nice to get stories like this, gamers sometimes get portrayed badly in the media and obviously here at KitGuru, We're against that. However, this is certainly something you can't put a negative spin on.

Source: Kotaku

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Great gamers raise $6.4 million for charity https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/great-gamers-raise-6-4-million-for-charity/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/great-gamers-raise-6-4-million-for-charity/#respond Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:40:42 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=151979 Gamers are a good lot. Really, we are. For all the media that paint us as rabid killing machines going through digital training before going on a rampage, we're generally good people who like to play games. Just because it's Call of Duty or League of Legends instead of checkers and backgammon, doesn't make us …

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Gamers are a good lot. Really, we are. For all the media that paint us as rabid killing machines going through digital training before going on a rampage, we're generally good people who like to play games. Just because it's Call of Duty or League of Legends instead of checkers and backgammon, doesn't make us any different. Just look at the Gaming For Good campaign. It raised almost $6.5 million for Save the Children over the past six months – $2.5 million of which came about in just one weekend of gaming, known as “The Siege.”

Teaming up with developers of some great indie titles, Gaming For Good is like Humble Bundle, in that you donate money, get games and help charity. However it works a little differently in that when you donate, you don't get games directly, you earn yourself points. Those points can then be spent on picking up a whole host of games. From titles like: Deponia, Beatbuddy: Tale of the Guardians, Skulls of the Shogun, Dungeonland, Organ Trail, Gunpoint, SPAZ, Trine 2; the list goes on and on.

It was doing very well too, earning millions of dollars for Save the Children and ultimately helping to reach over 150,000 children around the world. However last weekend, Gaming for Good took things up a notch with, “The Siege,” where gaming streamers around the world banded together for a marathon gaming session. Their plan: to game as long as they could, earning donations from fans and viewers along the way.

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The list of games available for “purchase” with your earned points, is absolutely huge

The money poured in. From the streamers with 40 viewers earning a hundred bucks here and there, to the big boys like SIVHD who pulled in over $100,000 in 12 hours of straight gaming. Over all, almost $2.5 million was raised over the two day “Siege.”

While the Siege of G4G might be done now, the donations aren't. They're still coming in. $5 here, $10 there and the total is continuing to creep up. The currently listed goal on the site is $6.6 million and as it stands, the total is just $114,000 shy of that threshold. What do you guys say we see if we can help tip the scales there?

One of the big stories to come out of this gaming event however, has been the coverage in the press. While a few publications have covered it, there's been a lot of apathy going around, especially according to event organiser Athene. He attempted to have the story covered by the Associated Press, who refused.

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A few select publications have mentioned the heroic efforts of these gamers, but too few.

Kitguru Says: So not only do we need to help out with a few bucks if we can, but we need to spread this campaign around and show the world that gamers as a whole, are a good lot. We are not represented or dominated by those few crazy individuals who do something horrific. 

Let's help stop the stigma and save some kids at the same time.

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