UK video game industry charity football match raises over £63,000 for physically disabled gamers


Video game charity SpecialEffect has once again hosted its One Big Game football event, bringing developers from all across the UK games industry together to raise money for a good cause. And with the event now over, more than £63,000 has been raised to help support physically disabled gamers.

This year, 24 teams played consecutive games of football over 24 hours, all in the hope of raising a substantial sum for SpecialEffect, which works to provide games access to to physically disabled people through specially-made hardware like controllers and eye-gaze support tools.

Here’s a recent SpecialEffect video highlighting the sort of impact these events can have.Watch on YouTube

One Big Game has now concluded, raising over £63,000 in total, and the whole event is available to view via video-on-demand on the official SpecialEffect Twitch account.

There were some really good matches, too. Activision battled EA in a game ending 2-3 in EA’s favour, while Maverick + Friends faced off against Playground and Rare in a real nail-biter. And Xbox under the team name “Score more with Xbox” didn’t manage to score more than Jagex, who took the game 2-1.

SpecialEffect has run this event (and others like it) for years now, and it’s proven to be a really brilliant effort each time. With the stream concluded, the hosts have hinted at future events to come, which I think everyone can agree will be very welcome.



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