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So every year I do a post about Child’s Play Charity and the importance of video games in my life. For those of you who don’t know what Child’s Play is all about, I will just point you in the direction of the Wikipedia article. It says more than I ever could, and it has lots of lovely facts. To date the charity has raised [...]

Tonight two groups of video gaming enthusiasts–The Fangamers and The Speed Gamers–had a Plush Charity Auction where all proceeds went to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease. The plushies auctioned off? Earthbound plushies. Lots of Mr. Saturns and one Master Belch. They were the little UFO catcher things (though some were quite large, I have to admit) you get in crane games. They’re [...]

I’m twenty-seven and I’m now fully realizing that this holiday is about giving and love and family and friends and joy. It’s not supposed to be commercial. We’re not supposed to be greedy. When we went to a family’s home today and gave them food they needed, it felt really good. I was hugged and kissed and tears were shed. I had to stop myself [...]

I’ve always identified as a gamer, even over the past couple years as my game time has significantly waned. I’ll sit down once in awhile with a console game, slogging through dungeons and saving distant worlds. I just don’t do it as much as I did in college and high school. Still, video games played an integral role in shaping me into the person I [...]

So, since Friday, I’ve been following a live USTREAM cast of these guys called The Speed Gamers, a group of college-age gamers that get together pretty frequently and have video game marathons.  The kicker is that through these marathons they raise money for different charities.  In the past they’ve helped charities like St. Jude’s, The Lupus Foundation of America and Susan G. Komen.  This time [...]