The UK Games industry has united behind a new initiative to show appreciation to the NHS workers as they work against the COVID-19 pandemic. The Games for Carer initiative has seen studios and publishers like Activision, EA, Xbox Game Studios, Devolver Digital, Bossa, Team 17, and many more unite to give away over 85,000 different games and game subscriptions that will span genres and platforms. The giveaway will begin today and those who are eligible can redeem the games of their choice by entering their NHS email.
The giveaway can be found through this link, though keep checking the link as it does not seem to be live at time of writing.
Dr Jo Twist, CEO of Ukie said in a statement:
“The UK games industry has been proud to play its part in conveying these vital public health messages during this national emergency. Now our community has united again to say thank you to the truly extraordinary people who make up the NHS frontline team. Games companies of all sizes and players everywhere recognise their exceptional dedication and hope this initiative goes some way to help them to understand how respected and valued they are.”
The full list of games companies that will be taking part in the giveaway are listed below.
- 101XP
- 1939 Games
- 4MB Interactive
- Absolutely Games
- Activision
- Apache
- ASA Studio
- Auroch Digital
- Bare Knuckle Development
- Beast Inc
- Bedtime Digital Games
- Bethesda
- Born Ready Games
- Bossa Studios
- Brainbox
- Bungie
- CCP
- Coatsink
- Codemasters
- Curve Digital,
- Deep Silver
- Devolver Digital
- Double Fine Productions
- Dovetail Games
- Electronic Arts
- Evil Twin Artworks
- Excalibur
- FitXR
- Flying Interactive
- Greenlight Games
- Hi-Rez
- Huey Games
- Indie Champions
- Introversion Software
- Irregular Corp
- Jagex Games Studios
- Japster’s Cavern
- Junkfish Limited
- Koch Media
- Konami
- Kupo Games
- Marvelous Europe
- Maximum Games
- Media Molecule
- Milestone
- Mode 7
- Modus Games
- nDreams
- NerdyBGird Studios
- Niffler,
- Numskull Games
- Outright Games
- Payload Studios
- Phantom Compass
- Placeholder Gameworks
- Playsport
- PQube
- QCF Design
- Quack Quack Games
- Quantum Soup Studios
- Raiser Games
- Rare
- Renegade Sector Games
- Reverie World Studios Inc
- Revolution Software
- Ripstone
- Roll7
- Salix Games
- SEGA
- SFB Games
- Spilt Milk Studios
- Sports Interactive
- State of Play
- Team 17
- Team Cats & Bears
- The Game Creators
- The Pixel Mine
- The Yogcast
- THQ Nordic
- tinyBuild Games
- ToastieLabs
- Wired Productions
- Wizards of the Coast LLC
- Wreck Tanghle Games
- Xbox Game Studios
- ZA/UM.
Source: Press Release
Tony Cawley
Very good initiative, but what about the carers who don’t work for the NHS? Seems a bit unfair on them!
gazzagb
And what about other essential workers!
Nate
Lovely idea, they are going fast though! I logged in and by the time I had got to the end of the list most of the big names had gone.