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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…

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Last year was a challenging and exhausting year for many. However, for those doing good work through gaming it was incredibly successful. The charitable gaming communities came together to raise record amounts for the charities they support. Let’s take a look at a selection of video game centric charities and what they did in 2016! The 24 hour marathon for Children’s Miracle Network hospitals in the US and Canada has raised nearly $9 million in 2016 with over…

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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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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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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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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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