Help kids and stop the negative portrayal of gamers in one fell swoop.
Last year the popular online comic, Penny Arcade, started a charity to benefit the Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center. The charity, named Child’s Play, was an overwhelming success and raised over $250,000 in cash, toys, and videogames in donations. In addition to this, it also helped combat the poor reputation videogame players, developers, and publishers have for poisoning the youth of the world.
This year, Penny Arcade is back and at it again with not one but five hospitals to benefit. In addition to the Seattle Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, they are now also donating to: Children’s Hospital Medical Center of Oakland, the San Diego Children’s Hospital and Health Center, the Texas Children’s Hospital, and Children’s National Medical Center in Washington D.C.
Planet GameCube is proud to promote Child’s Play and to inform our readers of this noble cause. 100% of the donations will be given to these hospitals. Not a single cent is being kept, even for administrative costs of the charity. Anyone wishing to donate can do so by going to www.childsplaycharity.org and clicking on any of the stars on the map to go to that hospital’s Amazon wish list. Donations are also accepted via PayPal and through standard mail. More information on donating by these means can be found on the Child’s Play website.
In addition to donations, Child’s Play is also holding a charity dinner/auction in Seattle later this year in late November or early December. There will be some very cool and rare items up for grabs at the auction. More information about the auction will be available later in the year.
