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Our friend TacticalPinup is leading the group of super-streamers, Gamers4Change, once again for a month long journey of charity gaming marathons, all for St. Jude PLAY LIVE. Last year we talked with TacticalPinup as she was in the midst of raising $50,000 for St. Jude. The donations directly support the amazing work done at the historic research hospital. The hospital’s goal is simple, end childhood cancer. Are you up for the challenge? Join the Gamers4Change…

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United #ForTheKids “I’m going. I’m going!” I shouted in a small bar in Denver when I received my welcome email for the first Extra Life United. The bar was empty except for the bartender who continued to wash glasses before the dinner crowd shuffled in. I felt my heart fill just a bit in that moment as I poured over the email several times. It was 2014 when the gaming focused program for Children’s Miracle…

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The indie game publishing company Versus Evil launches their inaugural charity event, Versus Evil Charity Clash (#charityclash) this weekend. Gamechanger Charity, 8-Bit Salute (Operation Supply Drop), Save the Children and St. Jude’s PLAY LIVE have selected Twitch streamer teams to play for their respective charities in hopes of raising donations and winning a prize purse of $10,000 USD to be donated to their cause. The game of choice is Antihero. Versus Evil’s turn-based strategy game pits thieves’…

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Every January for the past six years, Awesome Games Done Quick amazes, delights and inspires  its viewers with a cavalcade of gaming marathons. These feats of gaming prowess at the beginning of the year benefit the Prevent Cancer Foundation. Since 2011, this gaming-based charity endeavor has raised nearly $4.5 million for the foundation. The week long event begins on January 8th at 7:30am EST. You can watch the event on their Twitch channel as scores of…

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Microsoft has provided BigHeartedGamers with an Xbox One Elite Controller and we’re giving it away to one of you BigHeartedGamers out there!  Read on to enter for this Elite Controller Giveaway! We’re raising awareness not only about the awesome Xbox One Elite Controller, but also about all of the BigHeartedGamers out there.  Comment below to let us know why you want to win an Xbox One Elite Controller.  You’ll earn bonus entries for letting us…

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Because “One Day is Not Enough,” join the VETOBER® campaign to raise funds and awareness for the veteran support programs of Operation Supply Drop.  We’ve talked about Operation Supply Drop before here when they were involved with the Spartans for Troops Livestream charitable program.  They’re back at it and setting some lofty Goals for October and our United States Veterans: Supply Drops for over 30,000 service members will be assembled, packaged and shipped in November/December…

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Gamers for Good has announced that they are creating another charity artbook and they need your help! With the participation and fundraising success of their last charity artbook, Gamers for Good is ready to create another charity artbook. This time around with Toby Fox’s blessing, Gamers for Good will be producing an Undertale Charity fan art book (Book Name TBD). Gamers for Good believes that that Undertale challenged the way we play games primarily through…

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What do you get when a highly philanthropic gaming platform rallies around the charitable efforts of the gaming community?  Well, you get the XBOX Gives Back community event! Xbox community manager are sharing their favorite charities during their regular, weekly streams.  You can find stream and event information on the Xbox One Community Calendar app, or through Xbox.com.  Donations are accepted from July 17th – July 23rd. This awesome, week-long event will include daily promo…

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This week BigHeartedGamers we will be attending a couple of days worth of E3 in Los Angeles, California. We’ll start the week at the E3 Microsoft Press Event and make our way from there to various other press events and then to the show floor.  While there have been a few leaks of info about new or revised consoles, there doesn’t seem to have been anything earth shattering leaked so far.  Or maybe we haven’t…

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A relative newcomer to the charity scene, Streams for Dreams hosts events to raise money for charities.  As they see it: At Streams for Dreams we host gaming events with the intention of raising money for charities. We find games entertaining, and we want to share that entertainment with you, but we don’t want anything back for ourselves. Our dream is just to help people with theirs. Simple, right? So we ask that you donate…

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