Games For Soldiers

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…

Well, we’ve had a tremendous success with getting donations of games, and still have several donations that will be coming in over the next couple of weeks. Amazing! Thanks to each and every person and company that made this possible.

Now, to continue that momentum, we need your help again! Back in the beginning of this journey, paying for shipping out of pocket was not a big deal. However, some people still saw fit to donate a bit of cash here and there, and it was very helpful and appreciated. Now that we are on the verge of sending out an unprecedented number of boxes, GFS could really use a hand with shipping costs. Each box costs $10-13 to ship, depending on contents. We don’t often use flat rate shipping boxes anymore because for an extra dollar (roughly) we can use boxes that allow us to ship far more to each unit.

So… follow this link to help us out. Even a couple of dollars is wonderful!

As a note, please remember that we are not currently a 501(c)(3) organization. We are still in the process of incorporating (and have a great lead on some potential help with that as well, thanks!). Therefore we cannot offer receipts that can be used against your state or federal taxes. We certainly hope this will not prevent your generosity, but we want to make sure you know up front.

Thank you!

Yeah, I know… corny title.  But it’s quite valid nonetheless!  PopCap has donated their first 500 boxed copies of Bejeweled Twist to Games For Soldiers for distribution to the troops.  This marks the single largest donation that we have received.  If any of you watched the News 4 clip posted below, you may have seen Bejeweled Twist prominently featured.  Hopefully, that’s a little bit of giving back that GFS can offer.  Speaking of giving back, if you’d like to support the companies that support our efforts, please try and/or buy Bejeweled Twist, or any of the other games in PopCap’s very diverse catalog.  Personally, I recommend Peggle and Zuma…  they are two of my favorite games.

In further PopCap + GFS news, please take a look at the following links.  Also feel free to Digg them if you’re able!

• Official PopCap Press Release via Market Watch
• CinemaBlend
• PostStar

Well, the news spot was actually at 5:15p EDT. If you missed it, check it out here.