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!
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.
If you’re in the Detroit area, check out Channel 4 News at 6:00p today. 
This time in the form of The Oakland Post, the weekly newspaper of my school, Oakland University. You can read the story at this link or click “more” to read the story here.
The Detroit News to be exact. Check out the story at detnews.com or read below.
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.
So, it looks like tomorrow I will be interviewed for The Detroit News. I’m very excited about getitng the word out to more folk. Good stuff!
Also, I’ll be sending at least four boxes out totalling FIFTY-ONE (51) games. These games were provided by the following companies (in alphabetical order): 2K Games, Activision, Bioware, EA, Firaxis, Microsoft, and PopCap Games. Thank you again to all of those who support us.
Edit 1: Let’s add one more package, 12 more games and 4 CDs. Excellent!