We’ve featured Operation Supply Drop here at BigHeartedGamers in the past for the some of the work they’ve done supporting our military. Our military put their lives at risk for us. The least we can do as BigHeartedGamers is give something back to them, right? In conjunction with GovX, Operation Supply Drop’s relatively new program, Games to Grunts, allows us all to help our military enjoy themselves and take their minds off the rigors of…
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While the games featured in Humble Bundle are often highlighted, Humble Offerings features the charities these bundles are supporting while listing the contents of each bundle. Humble Bundle: Best of 2016 Charities Featured: For over 60 years video games have been a part of our lives in one form or the other. The National Videogame Museum works hard to preserve the many artifacts of our favorite form of interactive entertainment. Along with the physical pieces the organization…
Oh Humble Bundle, you know me so well. There’s something satisfying about building your gaming, audio and digital libraries AND helping out various charities from around the world. While I know I may not get to the piles of games, software, books and comics I’ve collected, I do pay attention to the charities that are featured for each Humble Bundle and gladly support them through my contribution. While the games featured in Humble Bundle are…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There are many things in life that are referred to as “game changers.” More often than not, they really aren’t but it sounds cool to refer to them as such. All exaggeration aside, GameChanger Charity has really been a game changer for quite a few people! GameChanger was founded in 2007 when Jim Carol’s son Taylor was diagnosed with terminal leukemia at age 11. After seeing how video games and the kindness of others helped…