Child's Play Charity

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Child's Play Nears $1M Mark



Amidst the bad PR we gamers usually get, Child's Play trudges on to get the world to think otherwise. This year, it has raised around US 963,000 for sick children in hospitals around the world.

Child's Play is a Seattle-based charitable organization founded in 2003 by gamers Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins, aka Gabe and Tycho of Penny Arcade. The organization donates games, DVDs, books, and other toys to sick kids around the globe, including hospitals in Canada, Britain, Egypt, and Australia. Gamers, or people who simply wish to help, can see the wish lists at Amazon.com or donate cash through PayPal.

This helps a lot of sick kids go through uncomfortable treatments and gives them some sort of relief that they would be able to play while in therapy. And some people think gamers are mindless zombies with cash to burn. Think about it, hitting the one million mark would be a great milestone for all of us.


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Child's Play Raises Over $1 Million For Children's Hospitals



Officials representing the Child's Play Charity, a gamer-focused toy drive organized by web-comic Penny Arcade, have announced that the charity has raised an all-time high of $1,024,400.31 worth of toys, games and books for participating children’s hospitals.

Child's Play, now in its fourth year, also held its annual charity auction dinner in December, during which attendees were able to bid on rare and one of a kind collectibles, with all proceeds going to assist those hospitals within the charity's network.

Last year, the charity dinner raised $82,100, while this year's event greatly surpassed that number by raising an impressive $210,000. Highlights from the sold out $125 per plate fundraising dinner and auction included an appearance in a Penny Arcade comic strip that went for $10,000 and a voice over line in Bungie's upcoming Halo 3 for the Xbox 360, which raised $9,000.

Other notable auction highlights included $4,000 for a trip for two to Iceland, including a tour of CCP Games; $3,700 for a Nintendo Wii and DS combo pack signed by Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime; $2,700 for a tour of the Penny Arcade studios; and $1,200 for a Xbox 360 signed by Microsoft executive J Allard.

“The game community has just been so amazing in its support,” commented Penny Arcade’s Robert Khoo. “What started as a challenge to our community has grown into something that impacts the lives of children, and that’s something we can all be proud of.”


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