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Microsoft Responds To Reports Of Xbox Live Account 'Jacking' Citing a large number of refunded donations and confusion over the goal of the “Retake Mass Effect“ Child’s Play charity drive, Penny Arcade’s Jerry Holkins draws the line: “Child’s Play cannot be a tool to draw attention to a cause. Child’s Play must be the cause.”
Some good may be coming out of the “Ocean Stratagy”/Paul Christoforo customer service debacle. N-Control, the company that makes the Avenger controller formerly repped by Christoforo, announced that they’d be making a large donation to Child’s Play.
You’ll never look at interstellar soldiers the same way again after watching this video by the MAKE design studio. The creators there made the clip pro bono — producing work which looks like it took weeks, if not months, to finish — to drum up support for the Child’s Play charity started eight years ago by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, creators of mega-successful webcomic Penny Arcade.
Artist Ashley Riot created this wonderful bit of original gaming art to donate to the Child’s Play charity dinner auction.
See this video here? It shows a developer from SEGA Studios Australia going up against a Firemint developer in a game of StarCraft II. Tonight, it’ll be CBS Interactive up against the developers at Wicked Witch Software, and tomorrow it’ll be Endgame Studios vs. Desura. So here’s a question: why?
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.
