Tag: Child’s Play

Carbine Studios Donates To Child's Play


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This year at PAX East, Carbine Studios has announced a special donation to Child’s Play. In addition to a comically sized check for ten thousand dollars, Carbine Studios has partnered with LEGO artist Mariann Asanuma to recreate the Wildstar rocket house in all of its blocky glory. The structure stands three feet high and four feet long and is the result of fifty thousand LEGO blocks.

The rocket ship will be auctioned off later this year at the annual Child’s Play Dinner and Auction. Mona Hamilton, Vice President of Brands at Carbine Studios, weighed in on the contribution.

Child’s Play is a wonderful charity doing really great things with the gaming industry and we’re looking forward to seeing the result of the auction later this year. It was also important for us to say thanks by giving back to the Boston community; they’ve been great to us over the years at PAX East.

Child’s Play’s goal is to improve the lives of children in hospitals and welfare facilities through the positive impact of video games.

(Source: Carbine Studios Press Release)

Mass Effect 3: The Right Way To Protest


Here at MMO Fallout, I’ve devised a sport known as “competitive charity,” a corporate sport where the rules are simple: Donate more than anyone else to a respectable charity and you win the prize. What is the prize? We haven’t figured that out yet, but it is in progress. So far, competitive charity has been extremely successful, with a majority of the companies listed here at MMO Fallout participating on an occasional basis.

Over at Bioware, the Mass Effect community decided to express its outrage at the ending of Mass Effect 3 in the only way it knows how: Throwing the rules of competitive charity right out the window and starting up a charity fund. So far, over two thousand contributors have donated more than fifty three thousand dollars to Child’s Play. Sure, it’s an odd marriage: The joy of charity and the general useless endeavor that is an internet protest.

This is my kind of protest, and I’m sure Child’s Play is just as happy as I am to see the money rolling. The charity drive runs until April 11th. If you want to chip in, or just want to donate to Child’s Play, click below. I will also have a counter running on the side of MMO Fallout until the charity ends.

(Source: Child’s Play)

Atlantica Online Vs Child's Play: Blame The Players


Atlantica: You can't fire me!

“due to some negative player complaints, Child’s Play has regrettably asked to be withdrawn from our efforts to raise money for their cause. We were informed that Child’s Play received negative emails from Atlantica Online players around the nature of the donation and the box, causing them to request removal from our fundraising efforts. “

There’s an unwritten list of things that fall under the category of “burns you can’t recover from.” The list includes, but is not limited to, getting divorced via text message, getting fired via text message, starving while snowed in at a grocery store, and finally having a charity tell you “thanks, but no thanks” to your donations.

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Atlantica Online Vs Child’s Play: Blame The Players


Atlantica: You can't fire me!

“due to some negative player complaints, Child’s Play has regrettably asked to be withdrawn from our efforts to raise money for their cause. We were informed that Child’s Play received negative emails from Atlantica Online players around the nature of the donation and the box, causing them to request removal from our fundraising efforts. “

There’s an unwritten list of things that fall under the category of “burns you can’t recover from.” The list includes, but is not limited to, getting divorced via text message, getting fired via text message, starving while snowed in at a grocery store, and finally having a charity tell you “thanks, but no thanks” to your donations.

Continue reading “Atlantica Online Vs Child’s Play: Blame The Players”