In the event you were looking for something amazingly positive to do with your upcoming Saturday (the 18th), Gamers for Good is partnering with the Compton Initiative for their summer workday! Head on out and get your hands dirty with Gamers for Good! Work alongside fellow gamers and other BigHearted locals for restoration and beautification in the Compton community. Join over 1,500 other volunteers in painting schools, homes, churches, murals, block -clean ups and gardens…
Author: <span class="vcard">Peench</span>
Exergaming, we’ve all heard of it, right? Exercising while gaming? C’mon! Who doesn’t exercise when they game?! While some of us may exercise our lungs and our capacity for thinking up new ways of harassing our opponents, most of us don’t really work up too much of a sweat while gaming. Carrie Swidecki is an exception to this general statement. Between July 11 and 17, 2015, Carrie will will be attempting to set the overall…
There aren’t many things worse than not being able to do something you really want to do or feeling left out because you can’t do the things your friends are doing. People who are disabled often feel left out or left behind when their friends are all doing things that they cannot physically accomplish. For example, merely because someone is disabled doesn’t mean that they don’t want to play video games. Thankfully Special Effect is…
While not every one of our posts will be about helping children who are spending time in hospitals, you have to admit, that’s a pretty cool thing to do, right? Enter Child’s Play. Child’s Play was established in 2003 by the authors of Penny Arcade as a game industry charity dedicated to improving the lives of children with toys and games in a network of over 100 hospitals worldwide. Since their inception in 2003, as…
I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Zach Wigal for some years now. I’ve always been struck by his enthusiasm and never-ending desire to help. Not surprisingly, this desire to help started when Zach was pretty young. While I could do my best to fill you in on how his quest to help others began, the wiki page for Gamers Outreach (the nonprofit foundation he helps run), does a better job of it: In March 2007,…
Webster’s dictionary defines “BigHearted” as generous or charitable. Whether many of us know it or not, there are thousands of gamers in the world who are bighearted. With mainstream media focusing on sensational articles or scandals, much of this generosity goes unnoticed. It is time for this to change. We need more positive in our lives. We need to know that humans are not all negative and horrible. We need to have our faith in…