News

Blizzard Auctions Off Entire Worlds Of Warcraft For Charity

Own a piece of World of Warcraft history and help a good cause, as Blizzard prepares to auction off more than 2000 original server blades for St Jude’s Childrens’ Research Hospital.


October 11, 2011
PC

If 10 Million Preorder This Game For $1, Charity Loses

Indie developer Nicolas Games wants to make a splash with its upcoming third-person post-apocalyptic survival horror title Afterfall: Insanity, so it’s devised an ambitious preorder system in which gamers can purchase the entire game for one dollar, as long as 10 million people preorder.


September 29, 2011
In Real Life

Watch Someone Kick Arse In FIFA Using Just Their Eyes

Maybe what drew you here is the chance to watch someone play a video game using technology that tracks eye movement. But make sure you stick around to hear about the people who make that possible.


September 21, 2011
In Real Life

Arcade Relief For Victims Of Tsunami

Kotaku AU

We’ve seen a lot of generous gamers starting up their own charity events, but we haven’t seen any create a PS3 compatible arcade machine that comes pre-loaded with 350 games… until now.


September 16, 2011
News

MLG’s Walshy Participating In Duathlon For Gamer’s Outreach

Halo pro gamer and MLG icon David ‘Walshy’ Walsh has announced he is participating in a duathlon for Gamer’s Outreach charity, to benefit his local children’s hospital. It’s a gamer trying to do good, so help out! Spread Word


September 2, 2011
In Real Life

The 14-Day Game Challenge For Charity

Kotaku AU

If there’s one thing that the Child’s Play charity has brought out of gamers (aside from generous donations), it’s creativity. And what’s more creative than making a game from scratch in 14 days to raise money for to help sick kids?


August 28, 2011
Xbox

The Pink Knight Comes To Life In Castle Crashers

The Pink Knight was an urban myth cooked up by Castle Crashers‘ Xbox Live community. No such dude existed. But he does now, as The Behemoth offers him for free and promises to make up to a $US50,000 donation to a breast cancer prevention and awareness organisation.


August 4, 2011
PC

Indie Bundle Adds Five More Games If You Donate Five Bucks Or More

The Humble Indie Bundle 3 has now added five more games, and still is being offered for the super-low price of “whatever you want to pay”. Provided whatever you want to pay is more than the average donation, which is $US4.96 as of now.


August 3, 2011
In Real Life

50 Games In 50 Hours? IMPOSSIBLE!

Kotaku AU

The Speed Demos Archive (SDA) is a cool site, and one I used to frequent quite regularly. It’s a resource for folks that want to watch incredible record breaking speed runs of video games. Now they’re trying to raise money for charity by play 50 games in 50 hours!


July 27, 2011
PC

And Yet It Moves And 4 More Indie Games Go Cheap For Charity

And Yet It Moves, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, Hammerfight and VVVVVV just went on sale… for however much you feel like paying.