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Last May I talked with Rob Slaughter of Bee the Swarm about his mobile application. It’s an endeavor to support charities and good causes through mobile gaming. After a successful Kickstarter campaign and release of two additional titles, Flappy Bee and Ahh Balls!, the team is seeking feedback from charitable gamers. Now they are growing their “swarm”. Bee The Swarm is now creating a social network to connect the communities that have utilized their fundraising…

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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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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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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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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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We are happy to share our first audio feature here on BigHeartedGamers.com. Enjoy our pilot episode and be sure check out Bee the Swarm. It shouldn’t be too surprising, perhaps even befitting that a person who studies the stars has hopeful aspirations for terrestrial things. Rob Slaughter is a physicist for the Air Force. When he isn’t staring into space through an amazing telescope, he is helping others through gaming. His mobile app, Bee the Swarm, let’s…

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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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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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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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