game girl advance: Child's Play

Child's Play

Gabe, the pencil-wielding maestro behind the art of Penny-Arcade, has decided to give of himself to the world. Uh, not like that! He's launching a charity drive to give toys and video games to sick kids this holiday, in part to combat the perception that video games are training kids to be ruthless killers.

He's set up an Amazon wishlist for the kids of Seattle Children's Hospital. I can't really put it any better than he did when he wrote:

"Penny Arcade has a readership of something like 150,000 gamers across the world. We are arguably the largest community of gamers on the internet. The important word there being community. This isn’t IGN, this isn’t Gamespy, we are not a faceless corporation, you are not just a number tracked by a database and then relayed to hungry advertisers. You guys have proven yourselves to be a powerful force when stirred into action. Here is your opportunity to use that power to do some real good.

Let’s give these kids the Christmas that they deserve and let’s give the news papers a different kind of story to write about gamers."

This just makes me love Gabe and Tycho all the more - as if I needed more reason to. So log in and pick out a gift - spread the love of gaming.

Spread it!

[Update: Snowmit adds that P-A has this permanent link to the Child's Play project. Thanks, Snowmit!]

Posted by jane at November 25, 2003 10:36 PM

Just a little update for those that don't frequent Penny Arcade.

Quote from a news post by Gabe:
"In related news the first batch of toys was scheduled to be delivered to us today. However the mailman said there were simply too many packages. Something like three trucks worth I guess. They were going to have to make a special trip out tonight or tomorrow. I’ll have pictures soon."

This is like out of a movie. I'm proud on so many levels.

Posted by: Draigon on December 1, 2003 01:20 PM

A-freakin'-men, Jane. Today's pictures with the boxes piled to the ceiling made me all misty. I'm going to throw fifty bucks towards some girl toys (simply because I have a feeling they're being neglected). I tried getting my game team to throw in some money, but evidently they can't be bothered. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

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