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Child's Play Collect Almost Half a Million Dollars

Posted by Zonk on from the tis-the-season dept.

Gamasutra reports on good news from the annual Penny Arcade-sponsored Child's Play charity drive. The organization has announced they've already reached $495,000 in donations this year, with several days left to go in the drive. Almost $230,000 came in last week alone. Next Wednesday, they'll be hosting the annual Charity Dinner, which last year netted the organization $82,000 and (this year) is certain to put them over their goal of $500,000. From the article: "Among those items up for bid at the event will be a new Wii console autographed by the Nintendo of America's president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime, a speaking line in the upcoming hotly anticipated Halo 3 for the Xbox 360, a PlayStation 3 console, and an appearance in a Penny Arcade comic strip. Additional items expected to be part of the sold out auction include original Penny Arcade artwork, tickets to the Halo 3 launch party, an Xbox 360, a Microsoft Zune ultra pack, Alien Hominid skateboards, ATI Radeon X1900XTX video cards, and Pirates of the Burning Sea treasure packs."

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  1. Tubes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    let me explain, when the gamers start to play games the tubes get filled with n00bs (which gives a hight PING), this piece of advance equipment is called the killer NIC because it *kills* n00bs in the tubes which will give you low PINGS. Ofcourse this is very dangerous and expensive and only for *PRO* gamers.

  2. My French is not great but.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Among those items up for bid at the event will be a new Wii console autographed by the Nintendo of America's president and COO Reggie Fils-Aime

    Doesn't Fils-Aime mean 'loves boys' or 'boy lover'?