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Games industry charity GamesAid raised more than 3,000 at last week’s MCV Awards. Attendees of the event were invited to give via either envelope – of which there was one on each table – or by text, by texting GAID1010 to 70070 in order to donate 10. The total amount …
Read More »Top 100 Women in Games: Emily Britt
Emily Britt,PR manager at The PokmonCompany and GamesAid chair, tells MCV about her career working with some of the most iconic titles in video game history Tell us about your career in games. I started as a localisation tester in QA at GT Interactive, testing Abe’s Odyssey and Abe’s Exodus. …
Read More »GMG’s Tracey McGarrigan becomes GamesAid trustee
Games industry charity GamesAid has welcomed Green Man Gaming’s Tracey McGarrigan as its latest trustee. McGarrigan joined the games industry in 2010 as Sci-Fi-London.com’s games editor before subsequently joining GMG as head of global PR and communications. "I’m so proud to now be a trustee,” McGarrigan said. My legs are …
Read More ȣ438,000: GamesAid smashes industry charity record
At London’s Earls Court today, GamesAid revealed that it had raised 438,000 for seven charities over the last 12 months. It’s a huge increase over the previous year’s 260,000, which in itself was a record for the now six-year old games industry charity. In total, GamesAid has raised over 1.2m …
Read More »GamesAid gives record-breaking £438,000 to partner charities
Special Effect, Lifelites, Action For Kids, Jigsaw4U, Safe at Last, Accuro and MAPS each receive more than £60,000
Read More »GamesAid charity voting opens as funding hits record high
The voting is now open to select which charities will receive money raised by games industry charity GamesAid. The official amount of money has yet to be announced, but it will be the biggest year yet for GamesAid fundraising. Last year, the charity raise 260,000 for Action for Kids, Lifelites, …
Read More »Voting for 2014 GamesAid partner charities opens
Industry raises record funding, which will be split between five chosen charities
Read More »PICTURES: GamesAid’s Cologne to Brighton bike ride
Members of the games industry cycling from Gamescom in Cologne back to Brighton have raised over 4,500 for GamesAid. It took the team four days to reach Brighton, passing through the Netherlands, Belgium and France along the way. In total they rode 337 miles over 29 hours and thirty minutes …
Read More »Nominations open for 2014 GamesAid charities
Send in your nominations by August 18th to be in with a chance of being a partner chairty
Read More »GamesAid opens nominations for 2014 charities
Members of games industry charity GamesAid can now put forward organisations for possible support this year. This process opened on Monday August 4th, and will close on Monday August 18th. Any member of the charity may put an organisation forward. Charities put forward should focus on helping disadvantaged or disabled …
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