Sony announces PlayStation HEROES #thegiftofgiving

Hi PlayStation Nation! I’m extremely excited to announce PlayStation HEROES, a brand new initiative that will givePS4 owners the chance to play celebrities and professional athletes in the games of their choosing, with nearly all funds raised going to charity. This is not a one-time event – gamers will get the chance to challenge celebs every month.

Winners will play some of the biggest PS4 games with cultural icons from the sports and entertainment worlds, online via PlayStation Network and in person. Here’s how it works: PS4 owners will purchase and download digital themes and other items via an official PlayStation HEROES app, with each dollar spent providing you with a sweepstakes entry to win one of the celebrity gaming sessions. Ninety percent of the purchase price of those items will help aid some amazing charitable organizations including Make-A-Wish, The USO and The V Foundation for Cancer Research. To celebrate PlayStation HEROES and kick start our support for these incredible causes, we’re donating $100,000 to each charity.

The official PlayStation HEROES app for PS4, which will be available for download on February 24 from PlayStation Store, will be your portal not just to purchase the digital content for entries, but also to find information on future celebrity participants, view videos of your fellow gamers playing celebs, and earn badges.

The first PlayStation HEROES event will feature legendary snowboarder Shaun White playing Bungie’s Destiny in mid-March. Starting today, you can pre-order the PlayStation HEROES app and gain early access to purchase dynamic themes, which serve as entries to win a chance to play Destiny with Shaun next month. You’ll be able to pick between a $1, $5, $10 or $15 theme, with each dollar spent counting as one sweepstakes entry. There will also be a special $20 bundle for all four themes that will count as 31 entries. Funds raised from entries to play with Shaun will benefit Make-A-Wish.

I can’t wait to watch PlayStation Nation take on Shaun White and other celebrities in some of the biggest games on PS4, all while lending a hand to benefit the great causes these charities fight for. We all believe in giving back to the community – and why not give back with the very thing we all love so much? Gaming! Stay tuned for more information on upcoming events and don’t forget to pre-order the app today so that you are ready for the app’s official launch on February 24. What celebrities, professional athletes and charities would you like to see take part in PlayStation HEROES? Let us know and we’ll start working on setting you all up for the play of a lifetime!

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/02/13/introducing-playstation-heroes-play-games-with-celebrities-benefit-the-worlds-great-causes/

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Simply amazing. Sony finding more and more ways to make PS4 a part of our lives. I see this becoming a huge hit. What do you think, SWers?

Great. More useless propaganda.

This is amazing! I love it so much, it's soooo awesome!

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What is it btw?

Sounds awesome. Good that money is going to charity.

why not donate 100k to sega....after they cut their throat and left them out to die?

or pay back the people forced to buy two consoles because of their shitty 3rd party practices?

Egh, Shaun White AND Destiny? Pass.

TC is really scraping the bottom of the barrel

i think the humble bundle way of doing things is better

Ok. Good for charity?

Also LOL Shaun White.

just today i was thinking if humble bundle will ever migrate to consoles.

Nearly all funds? Is Sony pocketing the rest?

90% to charities. 10% in unclaimed.

Bankrupt sony is probably a charity... so i'd expect more than 10% going their way.

What the hell did I just watch? How to I get my 5 mins back?

Messed up ...all the haters bad mouthing this ... I guess you want to watch kids die... How is giving to charities a bad thing? Only on system wars... god...

I guess Extra Life is a waste of time for you people too. My kid was in children's hospital and it saved her life. I am all for this.

Have some sympathy... for once. This is a good program if it gets people to donate.

This.

you people are fucked up.

Who said anything even remotely close to this?

I just read that. Wtf are you talking about midnightshade? Playstation Heroes is good thing.

@Salt_The_Fries: Setting up an endeavor to raise funds for charity is useless propaganda? Donating 100k to each charity right off the bat is useless propaganda?

That ladies and gents is blind random hate. Because Sony. What a life that must be...

Don't really care for it but charity is always great

Lol this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Come on Sony, the **** are you doing?

charity is always good. Also shaun white killed that judge.

Good job.

#supportcharity.

@bldgirsh: lmaooo

Those $100k "donations" that could've been spent on AAA first party games :(

Looks like Sony is turning into Microsoft

I don't think so. They like to control how much they make from console gamers too much.

What a lovely gesture.

Now watch as lemmings sneer over it because they're a bunch of joyless, spiteful gimps.

Yeah Sega didn't cut its own throat by over charging for hardware and not supporting it.

32X,Sega CD,Saturn....

Yeah it was sony....lol

What 2 consoles what the fu** are you talking about.? Can you be more butthurt..hahahaa

its just bad news for microsoft when all the celebrities are playing ps4 instead of xb1 you know that there is problem

if tv shows an celebrities are all playing ps4 it just flat out looks bad for xb1 owners and users

this needs to stop microsoft needs to get support they have to get it im sick of seeing all the ps4 everywhere i go FIX UR IMAGE get ur thing out the door get exlcusives fix ur crap microsoft ewre sick of being second in this country

90% goes to charity, that's freaking huge. Thank you Sony for making this world a better place.

@Salt_The_Fries: Pathetic. Be ashamed of yourself.

you know exactly what im taking about.

I don't get it. What are you exactly doing? Watching Shaun White play Destiny?

no i believe you are getting entries for a chance to play with Shaun White

Charity is cool, but they sure as hell came up with uninteresting way to do it.

yeah, i don't really see this taking off

I would be down if it lets us like

play SSX with Shaun White. Or THPS2 with the man himself.

No, because people like TC making it to be a Second Coming.

lol, exactly my thoughts.

And yea, i can see this being fun for a bit, but honestly how long will it take to get bored of celebrities suck at games?

Its like watching a celebrity basketball game. Its fun for the first quarter and then you realize they play like your uncle at thanksgiving.

Kid Rock has still got the moves!

I think Sony should have set it up to play with the cast of Law & Order: SVU just for comedy value.

@SolidTy: for a guy who writes novels every time he responds to someone, you're pretty bad at pretending

Huh? What are you talking about? I was just posting for gagz, what's your deal?

I think charity is great, no need to get offended and try to get personal, lol.

I say "try" because what your arbitrary attempted ad hominem about me "writing novels" I take as a compliment, even though you were trying to be impolite. I didn't post about you in this thread, or what I deem as your idiosyncrasies, it's interesting that you tried to be so uncivilized just now in a thread about charity.

The gag btw, was that I was pretending to care. You caught on just enough. :P

Agreed and hey I'm all for charity, but spare me the "more and more ways to make PS4 a part of our lives" shyte. Why the **** do I want to play a game with Snoop Dog or Lion or whatever his fuckin massive ego calls himself now. Or any celebrity for that matter. I give to charities. Right to the fucking charity. If this makes you happy @SolidGame_basic good for you, but I am not going out of my way to thank Sony, Nintendo, or MS for looking for good press. Like I said when it comes to charity, I give directly to the charity, because I want to help.

Anything more than cost being covered and they're using charity as an excuse for profit