Child’s Play: Gamers Give Back

If you listened to all of the media hype you’d be led to believe that people who identify themselves as “gamers” care only about their systems, their games, Mountain Dew and how to get their moms to stop interrupting their LAN parties.

While there may be some truth to that stereotype, from what I’ve seen, the gaming community is filled with charitable types who are more than willing to put down their controllers to help out when help is needed.

The Child’s Play charity is a perfect example of how gamers help out.

Child’s Play has been around since 2003 and they’re still going strong. Over 100,000 gamers have come together and helped make the time that sick kids spend in the hospital not as boring and scary with game and game system donations.

The way it works is you can either donate directly via PayPal or you can click on one of the participating hospital’s links on the world map and  purchase a game, system or book from the hospital’s “wish list”. The purchase or donation is tax deductible if you’re worried about that kind of thing and the end result is that a kid [or kids] will have something to think about other than when they’re going to get their next shot or surgery.

Right now, Child’s Play has collected over $600k for these kids and any help that you can give would be amazing.

Gotta do what you can to combat that pesky stereotype.

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