Bungie Announces "Heroes for Haiti" Program
Posted by Kevin Palmer on 01.18.2010
Want to help Haiti? Bungie announces plans to get the community involved.
Bungie recently announced plans to help aid Haiti and called on the Halo Community for help. As I am sure you all know, Haiti was hit by an Earthquake last week that killed thousands of people and destroyed thousands of homes. Bungie has made an easy way for you to help.
So how do you help? It's simple, go to the Bungie Store and purchase a special T-shirt and Bungie will donate 100% of the proceeds to the Red Cross. Bungie is also donating 100% of the profits from their store now, through the end of February to the Red Cross as well. If you've been waiting to buy a copy of ODST, now is the perfect time.
Please note that this only applies to the 1st party items in their store. So if you purchase an Xbox 360 from the Bungie Store, the Red Cross won't see any funds.
If you are unable to help monetarily. You can still help.
Here are the specifics:
1. Round up all of your friends and hop online with Halo 3 or ODST any time next from 00:01AM PST Wednesday, 1/20, through 23:59PM PST Thursday 1/21.
2. Edit your appearance settings so your character is wearing the RED HEART emblem.
a. Press START
b. Select "SETTINGS" / "APPEARANCE"
c. Select "EMBLEM"
d. Select "Hearts" ICON, "Circle" BACKGROUND
e. Back out to the APPEARANCES menu and select "COLORS"
f. Set "EMBLEM PRIMARY" to RED (or MAROON / BRICK / ROSE depending on which game you're playing!)
g. Set "EMBLEM SECONDARY" to WHITE
3. Once your emblem is set, play! This can be a custom game or a matchmaking game, just make sure it's played online, on Xbox LIVE, or we can't track it.
If you keep playing more games through midnight on Thursday, KEEP THE HEART EMBLEM ENABLED or you may not get counted.
"But wait, there's more! We want to see your screenshots and hear the stories about your experiences. Take screenshots from your games and tag them on Bungie.net with "HERO" so we can capture the moment. We'll go through and find screens we like and send some of you the special "Be a Hero!" Superintendent t-shirts we're offering at the Bungie Store as a small token of our gratitude for your support."
