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Here at BigHeartedGamers.com, we love to highlight individuals within the community that support charity through gaming. Among the questions we ask is “If you were a video game character, who would you be and why?” Enjoy these responses and remember these Big Hearted Gamers of 2016 (and few from 2015)! Joey “Gnome” Barranco says… Honestly? No one. I like being me, and I like being able play as someone else in a fantasy world, or a…

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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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We support the gamers who play games and volunteer for charity. BigHeartedGamers.com wants to recognize people who support their communities, locally or at large. What was the game that turned you into a gamer? The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. What video game charities do you play or volunteer for? I play for AbleGamers and Child’s Play. Do you volunteer or support any non-gaming charities? I also support ALS and the Lupus…

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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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We support the gamers who play games and volunteer for charity. BigHeartedGamers.com wants to recognize people who support their communities, locally or at large. What was the game that turned you into a gamer? I’d have to say Halo 3. Though I had grown up playing games and had certainly played many games before it, Halo 3 was my first foray into modern console gaming. I picked up the controller on a lark and it…

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We support the gamers who play games and volunteer for charity. BigHeartedGamers.com wants to recognize people who support their communities, locally or at large. What was the game that turned you into a gamer? The game that turned me into a gamer would have to be The Legend of Zelda on the NES. My mother was really deep into video games in that era, and she always kept her games to play with me. Zelda…

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What is Charity Live Stream? It started simply enough. Several ideas jotted down on a piece of paper in February of 2015 outlining a new idea for a new business venture. An idea to centralize thousands of gamers that raise money for charity. Every year video game driven events raise millions of dollars across the world for various charities. These communities are passionate, diverse and eager to play, work and sacrifice for their charity of…

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We support the gamers who play games and volunteer for charity. BigHeartedGamers.com wants to recognize people who support their communities, locally or at large. What was the game that turned you into a gamer? Tetris, for the GameBoy. What video game charities do you play or volunteer for? I’ve been doing Extra Life going on six years now. While I don’t play for them anymore, I try to support Operation: Supply Drop and Stack-Up.org. Do…

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Charity and games people, that’s what we’re talking here. Anyone here of the game Halo? Anyone hear of the United States Military?  Well put those two together with a live stream and you have a match made for raising awareness and funds!  Check out this info: In conjunction with Operation Supply Drop, Podtacular is pleased to announce the inaugural Spartans For Troops Halo Community Livestream event!  Partnering with over twenty groups and personalities, this event…

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We talked about Gamers Outreach in July of last year here at Big Hearted Gamers because they are pretty awesome.  The goal of Gamers Outreach is to provide kids in hospitals with recreation and therapy through the power of video games and they’ve done an amazing job. As of publication, Gamers Outreach is helping 78,840 children per year.  That’s a staggering number!  Think about the city in which you live.  Your home city might be…

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