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| Mar 23, 2021 | Momiji Studios will unveil its latest game at Makers Play showcase, with a VR twist | Delaware game designer Matt Sharp, founder of Momiji Studios, started working on his latest game about five years ago. The resulting Video Game Fables is his humorous take on replaying old games, set in a ’90s-style 8-bit world.
On March 26... |
| Jul 27, 2018 | SpecialEffect’s annual charity event for disabled gamers is September 28 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
SpecialEffect’s third annual fundraiser One Special Day is coming up soon, and the U.K.-based nonprofit is inviting the industry to con... |
| Jul 9, 2018 | Overwatch ‘Pink Mercy’ sale raises $12M for breast cancer research | It can be hard sometimes to grok the scale of the gaming community, but the occasional charity event not only demonstrates the hugeness of the industry but also its diversity and willingness to shell out for a good cause. Today Blizzard ann... |
| Mar 8, 2018 | Keep in Mind: Remastered will donate all game revenue to the nonprofit Child’s Play | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Little Moth Games’ narrative adventure Keep in Mind: Remastered tackles crucial topics like depression, abuse, and alcoholism. The two-... |
| Feb 22, 2018 | GameChanger Charity celebrates $18 million of donations with content platform for kids in hospitals | GameChanger Charity has received $18 million worth of donations in the last two months toward its goal of using video games to help sick kids. The nonprofit is also announcing a new venture, ZOTT, which is a content platform specifically fo... |
| Feb 22, 2018 | GameChanger Charity celebrates $18 million of donations with content platform for kids in hospitals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
GameChanger Charity has received $18 million worth of donations in the last two months toward its goal of using video games to help sic... |
| Dec 22, 2017 | Pokémon arrangement album celebrates the classics, all profits go to charity | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Tired of Christmas music? I mean, I’m not, but not everyone can be as jolly as me. Either way, we can all use more Pokémon music in our... |
| Nov 30, 2017 | Games on Demand game jam takes requests from ill children | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Though most game jams have developers creating projects on a single theme, Games on Demand takes a different approach. Founder Lana Chi... |
| Jun 23, 2015 | 8 Tech Nonprofits Changing the World with Innovation | Many people seek new charities to become involved with — whether through volunteer opportunities or monetary donations.
The nonprofit world, along with every for-profit industry, is changing rapidly with the advancement of technology. And n... |
| Jun 14, 2013 | Father’s Day: What’s your ROI? | Patrick O’Neill is the cofounder and CEO of YouGiveGoods.
To all the fathers out there who think they could be doing better, you are not alone. Recently released data from the federal’s government’s finds that 46 percent of you feel the sam... |
| Oct 9, 2012 | The Humble Ebook Bundle Is Back With Works By Doctorow, Gaiman, and Scalzi | Everyone’s favorite ebook bundle charity online sale thinger is back and you have 13 days to grab eight sci-fi books from folks like Neil Gaiman, John Scalzi, and the Craphound himself, Cory Doctorow.
This bundle has sold more than 18,000 u... |
| Jun 2, 2012 | Liz's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | Hello, Techdirt readers! |
| Mar 5, 2012 | The Yetis are coming to you at GDC 2012 | This sponsored post is produced by YetiZen.
This year at GDC 2012, prepare for a Yeti invasion the likes of which has never been seen before! YetiZen will be bringing you the biggest bash you’ve ever seen at GDC on Wednesday, March 7 starti... |
| Mar 5, 2012 | The Yetis are coming to you at GDC 2012 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
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This year at GDC 2012, prepare for a Yeti invasion the likes of which has never been seen b... |
| Jan 8, 2012 | Is a $10,000 donation enough to make the world forget about Ocean Marketing? | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
N-Control, makers of the Avenger Controller accessory that was recently the center of the Ocean Marketing disaster, has touted a $10,00... |
| Jan 8, 2012 | Is a $10,000 donation enough to make the world forget about Ocean Marketing? | N-Control, makers of the Avenger Controller accessory that was recently the center of the Ocean Marketing disaster, has touted a $10,000 to the Child’s Play charity via an official press release. The donation earns N-Control platinum sponso... |
| Jan 6, 2012 | Top ways gamers are raising money for charity | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Gamers are a generous sort, as evidenced by the countless ways they have been raising money for charities over the past several years. ... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Mariachi and margaritas mark wild year for Double Down’s Walcott, Enell | Double Down Interactive's Glenn Walcott and Greg Enell have added more than 65 employees this year.
Executives at Double Down Interactive hired a mariachi band to entertain staffers at a company meeting in September — a special treat for hi... |
| Dec 6, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Neil Roseman helps bring Zynga to Seattle | Zynga's Neil Roseman
One of the biggest stories in Seattle tech in 2011 was the arrival of the Silicon Valley tech titans. It seemed that nearly every other month a new company was establishing an engineering center in rain-soaked Seattle, ... |
| Dec 5, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Smilebox CEO Andrew Wright builds big business on life’s little moments | Andrew Wright of Smilebox at his company's offices in Redmond. Photo: Annie Laurie Malarkey
It’s that time of year when folks start thinking about connecting with family and friends through holiday cards. And Smilebox CEO Andrew Wright has ... |
| Nov 25, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Bryan Mistele guides Inrix on road to success | Inrix CEO Bryan Mistele is transforming how companies get traffic information. Photo: Annie Laurie Malarkey
With Bryan Mistele at the wheel, Inrix was on the move in 2011. The Kirkland provider of real-time traffic information raised a $37 ... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: T.A. McCann sells Gist to RIM | Persistence, courage and an ability to learn from failure. Those are some of the attributes of entrepreneurs, all traits exhibited by Gist founder and CEO T.A. McCann in 2011. One of Seattle’s most respected entrepreneurs, McCann sold perso... |
| Nov 22, 2011 | Drive A Bus Through The Desert On Your Phone (For Charity!) | I hope you like the landscape you see here because if you buy Amateur Pixel’s new Desert Bus app, you’ll be looking at it for the next eight hours. Seriously.
The $.99 Desert Bus app is a pixel-perfect remake of the original trek as seen in... |
| Nov 16, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Scott McFarlane guides Avalara | Scott McFarlane of Avalara has quietly built an online tax software juggernaut on Bainbridge Island. (Photo: Sheri Pollock)
Avalara is based on Bainbridge Island, and the company’s software helps online merchants manage the mundane tasks of... |
| Nov 14, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Swype’s Cliff Kushler and Mike McSherry | Swype's Cliff Kushler and Mike McSherry at the Seattle 2.0 Awards in March.
Swype revolutionized the way millions of people input text on Android devices, with the simple swipe of a finger. Founded by Cliff Kushler and led by CEO Mike McShe... |
| Nov 10, 2011 | Newsmakers 2011: Ben and Emily Huh unlock secret to Web humor at Cheezburger | Cheezburger's Ben and Emily Huh gobbled up new cash and Web sites in 2011
What’s it like being married to one of the worst-dressed men in tech? Emily Huh lives with that pain every day, and things seem to be working out just fine.
But it is... |
| Nov 3, 2011 | Humble Bundle & Bundlelytic: Donate to charity, receive great games and apps | Have you ever wanted to fork out for LastPass Premium, but couldn’t quite justify the grievous $12 per year expense? Or likewise, maybe you want to pick up a few games to help you unwind at the end of the day but you don’t have the spare $6... |
| Jul 27, 2011 | 5 cross-platform indie games for $1: Humble Indie Bundle 3 | The much-loved Humble Indie Bundle has returned, and yet again the phrase “pay what you want” is prominently pinned to the top of the site. For $1, or $25, or indeed any amount of money, you can get your Windows, Mac, or Linux hands on five... |
| Jul 26, 2011 | Humble Bundle Launches Its Third Pay-What-You-Want Video Game Offer | The Humble Bundle is set to launch its latest package deal today, continuing its successful “pay-what-you-want” business model with the release of a new bundle containing 5 indie games.
This bundle includes: Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, VVV... |
| Apr 12, 2011 | Humble Bundle Returns With Another Pay-What-You-Want Video Game Offer | The good folks at Humble Bundle are launching their latest project today: The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle.
I say “good folks” for a number of reasons. First, of course, it’s another pay-what-you-want deal, with which Humble Bundle has had grea... |
| Dec 27, 2010 | Lessons from the Second Successful Humble Bundle | The Humble Bundle ended its second pay-what-you-want deal on Saturday. After running for just 11 days, the startup, newly backed by Y Combinator sold over $1.8 million in video games, outperforming the great success the first bundle had ear... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Humble Indie Bundle 2 Embraces BitTorrent | Just in time for the Christmas holidays, the guys who brought us the Humble Indie Bundle have done it again. With their latest game pack, called simply Humble Indie Bundle 2, Wolfire Games are capturing imaginations.
Their pay-what-you-want... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | They Got Him! Children's Cancer Ward Console Thief Apprehended | You guys, some days I love the internet. Do you remember that despicable burglar who made off with a bunch of consoles from a children’s hospital? Well, I’ve got good news and more good news.
The local police have made a point of tracking d... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | Humble Indie Bundle 2 Available, Now With Y Combinator Backing | You may remember the Humble Indie Bundle from May, which was a sort of experiment in payment, trends, and distribution. It was extremely successful, raising quite a lot of money for the EFF, Child’s Play, and of course the developers themse... |
| Dec 14, 2010 | Humble Bundle Launches Another Pay-What-You-Want Video Game Deal | The folks behind the Humble Indie Bundle, one of the great pay-what-you-want success stories of this year, are offering their second bundle of games today – 5 more DRM-free games, priced at what you want to pay with the option to donate som... |
| Dec 10, 2010 | Help Identify A Guy Who Stole Game Consoles From A Children's Cancer Ward | Stealing toys from seriously ill children is a one-way ticket to hell, but hopefully before that happens we can find this guy and give him a bonus trip to prison as well. The man pictured here (video at the link) stole five game consoles fr... |
| Jul 15, 2010 | 8-Bit Vintner retiring geek wines | Geeks generally aren’t associated with drinking wine; soda, beer, sometimes even mead, but rarely do you connect wine drinking with being a geek. Mike James worked really hard to change that perception, and made great strides in bringing a ... |
| Apr 12, 2010 | Doritos Viralocity turns fans into marketers | Article content
Vancouver’s Shane Smith took second and third prize in Doritos Viralocity, an online video contest to launch Doritos newest chip flavour.
But Smith takes tops in comedy for his Peter Chao’s Full Moon video, a takeoff on the ... |
| Dec 15, 2009 | Reddit Users Band Together For Largest Secret Santa Ever | It’s easy to look at sites like Reddit, Digg, or any other substantially large web community, and view their aggregate userbase with a certain level of disdain — anonymity has the nasty habit of turning reasonable people into world-class je... |
| Jul 1, 2009 | Wiimbledon 2009: We raised ~$5000 for Child's Play | Wiimbledon 2009 has come and gone and I’m happy to report that it was a great success! We had 98 tournament participants and everything went off without a hitch. With the help of generous eBayers, tournament attendees and Barcade, we’ve rai... |
| Jun 12, 2009 | Donate your used gadgets to to help us raise money for Child's Play | Here’s a quick update on this year’s Wiimbledon, folks. If you’re unable to make the event in Brooklyn on June 27th and you still want to help CrunchGear raise money for Child’s Play then donate your used gadgets to Gazelle. We’ve set up a ... |
| Jun 8, 2009 | Wiimbledon 2009 set for June 27 at Barcade in Brooklyn, help us raise money for sick kids | Were visits to the doctor ever a pleasant experience as a kid? Of course not! Even regular checkups were a hassle and a nightmare, but those lollipops and model airplanes were totally worth it in the end. But my experiences differed greatly... |
| Nov 7, 2008 | The giving season is upon us again – Child's Play is up and running | Just as a heads up (for the three or four of you that don’t read Penny Arcade), I thought we should mention that Penny Arcade’s grassroots charity Child’s Play has begun its 2008 drive. Like Gabe says, some of us are in a bit of a money cru... |
| Apr 24, 2008 | Microsoft donating Xbox 360s to children's hospitals | Well, this is certainly a good thing. But I hope they can find a hospital that isn’t already filled to capacity from the efforts of Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play charity drive. They’re setting up 360 kiosks with cameras, headsets, and a varie... |
| Dec 12, 2007 | Win a Weighted Companion Cube TONIGHT at Funde Razor | Feeling charitable? In the Denver or New York City areas? Check out the Funde Razor, a fundraising event for Penny Arcade’s Child’s Play yearly charity. Head to the location, buy some drinks, enter a raffle, play some games, and the proceed... |
| Nov 12, 2007 | Iron Coder 7 under way, now with new twists | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Jul 24, 2007 | Stop What You're Doing and Soak In This Amazing God of War PSP Mod | Someone call King Solomon. I’m now torn between this God of War PSP mod and that old Zelda DS mod from a few months back: Which one is better? Both are made by the same guy, but I’m leaning toward the GoW one. I’ve included a few pics in th... |
| Mar 10, 2007 | SXSW 2007: All Hail Central Texas | Anyone care to hypothesize what’s happening here? Send emails to contest at crunchgear dot com by Monday for fabulous prizes
Well boys and girls, I’m now planted firmly in Austin for this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW). My trip to GDC 200... |
| Dec 6, 2006 | Buy Mac software on Dec. 7 for charity (updated list) | reader comments with 0 posters participating
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| Dec 5, 2006 | Child's Play Charity: 'Tis the Season | For those of you in a festive and/or generous mood, I wanted to give a quick update on the Child’s Play Charity organized by Penny Arcade. Child’s Play is a charity for the benefit of sick kiddies. It helps to provide them with much needed ... |
| Dec 5, 2006 | Best Gadgets Of 2006 | Now is the time for not-so-subtle hints about what you want for Christmas. If you’re debating over which Smartphones or MP3 player to get, we can help. Our editors at CrunchGear have searched the globe for the best electronics of 2006. Be s... |
| Nov 18, 2006 | PlayStation 3 Launch Line for Charity | So the PS3 launched yesterday to the tune of 400,000 units across the US. Gamers everywhere swarmed electronics stores hoping to get their hands on one of the coveted consoles. There were all sorts of reports of violence and general shenani... |
