Friday, September 02, 2005 6:55 PM
by
scarbone
Bungie - Fight the Flood T-shirts for Katrina Charity...
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/09/02/news_6132504.html
The company is now selling T-Shirts emblazoned with the logo "Fight the Flood!" for $19.99 on its Web site. The white T-shirt shows a caricature of Halo's hero, Master Chief, punting one of the Flood, an enemy in Halo. The double entendre is apt, as the Flood are parasitic organisms that know nothing other than destruction.
Bungie notes that not one penny of sales goes toward profit, and that at least $15 of each sale goes directly to the Red Cross. Bungie is also donating all its store profits for the month of September to aid in rebuilding the damaged area. Later this month, the developer will join with fan site Halo.Bungie.Org to sell rare Halo-related items in an auction for charity.
On a posting on Bungie's site, spokesperson Frankie O'Connor says, "Now, why did we make a T-Shirt? We used the tools we have. We have a company store that can handle the transactions. We have designers, and we were able to make T-Shirts faster than anything else. And a T-Shirt is something you can wear to show solidarity with the folks suffering there, and reminds everyone around you that it's good to donate. It's a billboard for what we're capable of doing when people need help."
