Games For Soldiers

Donations keep coming in… donations keep going out.  Interestingly, the last few boxes to go out have contained fewer games because they’ve included things like Scene It!, Lips, or other larger-than-normal boxes.  The one going out tomorrow only has 18 games, but they are all top-quality, brand new games donated by Microsoft, EA Sports and 2K Games.  Not… too… shabby!

The Summer Donation Drive continues in full effect.  Unlike the last two summers, this year has seen a huge gain in private individuals donating, and a major decrease in developers and publishers donating.  Not a bad thing… used games make troops just as happy I assure you.

There’s been a sudden uptick in donations by private individuals.  Thank you!  We’re actually just announcing our summer drive for games to donate.  Primarily we are running low on our stock of 360 and PS3 games, though we’re still happy to take any game or movie donation that anyone is willing to provide.  However, due to storage issues and problems with usability overseas, we are asking people to consider not donating previous-generation video game systems at this time.  Systems propose some difficulties with shipping (our standard boxes are designed to ship games only, and allow us to do so at a known cost per box), and since we don’t have many games to offer for older systems, it means that we cannot provide the same level of benefit if shipping an original Xbox, original Playstation, or even older system.  We have, when games have become available, actually donated some systems (even a Turbo Graf-X 16) if we can provide the system, all cables and enough games that it’s beneficial in comparison to the shipping costs.

Regardless, thank you all very much for your continued support.

I don’t post here too often because activity on the site never really took off, but I’d like to give an update to those who do check in now and then.

Currently, I’m in the process of contacting some units that are pending deployment so that they can forward their APO addresses when they arrive in country.  I’m also trying to get in touch with some FRGs to find additional units to send games to.

Thanks to all those who continue to donate games to the cause.  My lack of updates on the site do not reflect a lack of appreciation from GFS, and definitely no lack of appreciation from the forward-deployed troops who receive the donations in the end.

Thank you all for helping to keep GFS in the business of offering entertainment to the troops.

FINALLY!  Our Summer raffle has arrived.  For information, please visit our raffle page here.  Thank you!

GFS is continuing to send shipments of games, despite our lack of website updates.  Currently, our largest needs are monetary donations to continue shipping boxes and Xbox 360 games, which we are sorely hurting for.  360 and PS3 game requests are what we receive the highest number of.  Please keep us in mind if you are able to help.  I’ll try to post more about our activities, including boxes shipped, so that our progress can be seen.

Sorry about the lack of recent updates.  Moving, work and school have been fighting for every last minute of my time.  Fear not, packages are still going out.  I’ll try to put together a better update soon.  Also, the raffle is still in the works.  Thanks for the interest.

Hey everyone.  Sorry for the lack of updates over the holidays, it’s been a crazy month.  We’ve still sent out several boxes so far this year and are about to take delivery of a pallet of boxes at the local FedEx depot.  More on that shortly!

For those of you that may have missed it, Games For Soldiers was mentioned along side of PopCap games during a segment on The Gifts That Give Back.  I’m looking for a clip of the segment to post here as well.  Was nice to have additional media.  Thanks goes out to PopCap Games for rolling us into this!

Well, that dark ages of our forumlessness appears over.  Please let me know if you’ve previously created an account and no longer have access.  Updates should start to roll in again here shortly.

Also, thank you to the students, families and faculty of Great Oaks Academy for their great donations during our holiday drive.  The school brought in over 250 games donated to our cause.  Awesome!

We seem to be having some trouble with our forums.  If you registered, hopefully you will not have to do so again.  I’m working on it…