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Feed Starving Children And Build Them A Place To Play In Safari Challenge
Launched this week by Desert River Games, Safari Challenge is an example of the sort of Facebook games I admire the most, one that harnesses the actions of gamers sitting at computers in their comfortable homes to create a living charity engine. I feel much better building a virtual village when I know my lazy clicking could help feed hungry children in Africa or build them a playground.
A New Way To Get Toto’s ‘Africa’ Stuck In Your Head
When was the last time you heard an a capella send-up of shooter Battlefield: Bad Company 2? Never? Me too!
An Informed Expert Speaks Out On RE5 Racism
VideoGamer.com played through the first three levels of Capcom’s latest with one of the UK’s top experts on racism to get the final word – is Resident Evil 5 racist?
Play Game, Combat Malaria In Africa
While Ethan Allen makes mosquito nets look romantic, living in a country where mosquito nets are purely utilitarian and totally necessary (mine was a hideous blue colour with an ugly flower pattern in the netting, and was rigged up to the ceiling with fishing line – no four poster beds to be found) will dash any romantic ideas post-haste. April 25th is World Malaria Day, and as part of the ‘Nothing But Net’ campaign to get mosquito nets to parts of Africa where malaria is a very real and very deadly problem, the UN has commissioned an easy little came called ‘Deliver the Net’: The challenge: race the sun and hand out as many insecticide-treated bed nets as you can to African families. The more nets you deliver – before the mosquitoes come out – the more lives you save. Once you’re done playing the game, sign up, confirm your email, and a life-saving bed net will be sent on your behalf!
Sega To Open A Ton Of Amusement Parks (Nowhere Near You)
SegaWorld’s dead, right? Don’t tell Sega! They’ve just signed a deal with Dubai-based property firm Emaar to open a whole load of “indoor theme parks” across…the Middle East and North Africa. The first, to be built in the Dubai Mall, will feature arcade cabinets, more complex/expensive simulators and a roller-coaster, and will be based heavily on Sega’s Japanese Joypolis centres. Sega CEO Hajime Satomi: Entertainment is about living dreams, it is about experiencing joy and culture. In joining with a company of Emaar’s stature and power, we hope to convey the pleasure and excitement inspired by great entertainment to people all over the world.
Hajime, I think most of the people you just excited live nowhere near Dubai. Sega and Emaar to open Middle East theme parks [GI.biz]
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