Sometimes lost in the rabid daze of “good” deals this Black Friday week are genuine opportunities to spend a little money on good causes. If you’ve been meaning to pick up “that charity game” on XBLA — and in doing so, donate 100 percent of your 400-point purchase to charities, including Save the Children and Starlight Children’s Foundation — you have until December 1 to do so.
Come next Wednesday, Chime’s 10-month charity drive will expire, at which point the game will be updated to donate 5 percent of all $5-purchase royalties to publisher OneBigGames, which then passes the donations along to its charity partners. Additionally, the update will remove the game’s high-score cap.
“Now that this cap has been removed it will finally be possible to discover the best Chime players in the world,” game director Brynley Gibson, of developer Zoe Mode, said in an announcement. “This fix has been a long time coming and is absolutely one made for the fans; we hope it tides them over until we can announce our plans for where we are taking Chime next.”
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Chime charity drive to end Dec. 1, with XBLA update originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 25 Nov 2010 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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