Quote:Japanese games publishers have begun announcing campaigns and donations to support relief efforts following Friday's earthquake disaster.

Both Japanese platform holders have donated money to the relief, while other studios such as BlazBlue developer Arc System Works are discussing the possibility of releasing DLC with profits going to relief efforts.

CVG can readers make a donation via the British Red Cross here

Here's a list of some of the programmes that have been announced by games companies, via Andriasang:

Nintendo
Donation of 300 million yen. (Notice)

Namco Bandai
Donation of 100 million yen through parent Bandai Namco Group. The company will also be suspending operations in arcades where power conservation is needed, and will be holding back on events. (Notice)

5pb.
5pb. will slash the price of iOS Memories Off 6 T-Wave from 2,000 to 350 and will donate all sales of the app through March 31.

Sony
Sony Group (not just the games division) is giving a donation of 300 million yen and 30,000 radios. (Notice).

Quote:Japan’s game publishers (and other tech companies) will donate hundreds of million of yen to support the country’s continued efforts following last Friday’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Of the bigger companies, Nintendo has said it will donate 300 million yen ($3.66 million) to relief efforts, Sega (technically Sega Sammy) will donate 200 million yen ($2.44 million), and Sony will donate 300 million yen ($3.66 million) and will give away 30,000 radios. Very nice to see.

Namco, creators of the SoulCalibur and Tekken series, have also committed to donating 100 million yen ($1.22 million) through Namco Bandi, its parent company.

Japanese citizens have been asked to try to conserve electricity, so several online games have been shut down or seen their service interrupted. Square Enix says it will suspend Final Fantasy XIV service for at least one week. The company also says that the game, as a result of this disruption, will be free to play in the month of April.

Konami, too, has moved to temporarily suspend service of Metal Gear Online.

Needless to say, Japan’s in pretty rough shape—good thing the country’s buildings are about as quake-proof as you can get—but it’s nice to see some of the companies we’re all fans of take a moment to help out.

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Satellite Wrote:I'll have to give out huge props to how whole Japan has taken care of the earthquake, tsunami and the issues it all caused.

Corn Wrote:+ nuclear explosion + volcano eruption.

Hope they get better soon.

Fatalzxc Wrote:they had the nuclear explosion under control from what i heard.