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…
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!
Well, the news spot was actually at 5:15p EDT. If you missed it, check it out here.
I’d emailed CheapyD a few weeks ago and just found that a post had been made on the CAG site. If you’re a visitor from CAG, welcome and thank you. If you’d like to check out another site that supports Games For Soldiers, take a peek at this link.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=22247904850
Please join us on Facebook with our new Facebook Group. Help show your support for GFS and help get the word out!
2D Boy, the indie developers behind World of Goo (http://www.worldofgoo.com), have graciously allowed us to distribute copies of World of Goo with our boxes to deployed troops. This will offer a great number of people another casual game to enjoy (and hopefully bring a large addition of sales to a very deserving 2D Boy). Thanks again Kyle!
First, a huge thank you to Capcom for their donation of 225 games across several systems. That donation along with several individual/private donations have put us to a decent bit above 25% of our goal. I look forward to sharing more successes with you all over the next month.
I’m going to step away from my normal brevity and make a blog-style post. GFS has been phenomenally successful for a small start up getting attention by word of mouth and small newspaper articles. Locally, those news articles have found us several donations of games and even a few cash donations to help pay for shipping costs. This helps tremendously. Extra thanks go to American Legion ‘Frank Wendland’ Post #253 in Royal Oak, MI. During a recent event they held a 50/50 raffle on our behalf and raised well over $200. Amazing!
Now, to current matters. We’ll be starting our holiday drive on October 1st and continuing it through November 15th. That’s about the latest date that we can recieve games and still reasonably expect them to get to troops in time. If you plan to donate, please do so as early as possible. Also, feel free to send us monetary donations via paypal (jesse@gamesforsoldiers.org) to help cover shipping. I’d like to bring as much fun and cheer to deployed folk as possible this holiday. Feel free to register and post in our forums or send me an email directly if you have questions.
I had an interview about Games For Soldiers with Jennifer Chambers, a reporter for The Detroit News. Hopefully we’ll have a story run later this week or weekend. A paper with such a great circulation should definitely get the word out about GFS. I’m excited to see the results. Stay tuned for a link to the story.
Lastly, thanks again to all of our wonderful donor companies, especially 2K Games, Microsoft and PopCap Games. These three companies have sent us an utterly massive number of games. Thank you also to the private donors whose help collectively builds up and helps out so much!
I look forward to a very productive next couple of months.
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