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Supplying “Positive Impact” with OSD’s Sam Stephenson In this episode, “Small World Connections”, BigHeartedGamers visits with Operation Supply Drop’s Senior Producer, Sam Stephenson. We find out more about the organization’s gaming focused campaign, 8-Bit Salute and how the English born actor went from aspiring artist to Campaign Manager for the Austin, Texas based non-profit. Music for this episode is from Eric Skiff’s Resistor Anthems.  

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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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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? 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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Tactical Pinup, Gamers 4 Change breaking records for charity through gaming In this episode, “For Maggie”,  BigHeartedGamers visits with Twitch charity streamer, Tactical Pinup, on the final eve of her team’s campaign as it was on the verge of earning $125,000 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. We talk about her path as a charitable gamer and where her and her team, Gamers 4 Change, are headed. Intro and outro music for this episode is from Eric Skiff’s…

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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? “It was probably the first game I ever played (and beat), Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past on the SNES. I remember accidentally deleting my dad’s save file (I was probably like 4 or 5), and being grounded from the game…

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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? “But I was always a big fan of video games, and spent an inordinate amount of time playing Pac-Man, Dodge ‘Em and Combat with my brother on our Atari 2600.” What video game charities do you play or volunteer for?  “I concentrate…

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