{"id":75458,"date":"2015-05-14T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T09:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=75458"},"modified":"2015-05-14T11:44:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T09:44:35","slug":"hi-rez-raises-funds-for-nepal-relief-using-smite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/75458-hi-rez-raises-funds-for-nepal-relief-using-smite","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Rez raises funds for Nepal relief using Smite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi-Rez, the developer behind popular MOBA <em>Smite<\/em>, has taken a rather unique approach to raising funds for Nepal earthquake relief.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_75464\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-relief_blogd5ac603124176bcaaa8aff0000b630e7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-75464\" class=\"wp-image-75464\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/nepal-earthquake-relief_blogd5ac603124176bcaaa8aff0000b630e7.jpg\" alt=\" Nepal Earthquake Relief Chest\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-75464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We love the inspired approach Hi-Rez is taking to raise funds for the Nepal Earthquake Relief.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is a great news. The death toll\u00a0from the Nepal&#8217;s latest earthquake has risen to 125, as of the writing of this article. The earthquake had a magnitude of 7.3, and along with the 125 dead, 2,500 people were also injured.<\/p>\n<p>Hi-Rez&#8217;s relief effort includes the unveiling of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hirezstudios.com\/smite\/latest-news\/view\/smite-blog\/2015\/05\/12\/new-in-smite-nepal-earthquake-relief-chest\" target=\"_blank\">Nepal Earthquake Relief Chest<\/a> in <em>Smite<\/em>, at the cost of 400 gems. Gems in <em>Smite<\/em> are the game&#8217;s currency and are earned by redeeming codes, through in-game promotions and real money purchases.<\/p>\n<p>The chest contains rare, and exclusive, skins including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucky Baby Fuwa (Cupid)<\/li>\n<li>The Sydney Shredder (He Bo)<\/li>\n<li>Orbital Strike (Rama),<\/li>\n<li>Jaguar Footballer (Xbalanque)<\/li>\n<li>Ra\u2019Merica (Ra)<\/li>\n<li>Soldier of Fortune (Ares)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For every chest sold, Hi-Rez will donate $2 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcross.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Red Cross<\/a> to help with the Nepal earthquake relief and affect humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n<p>Raising funds for Nepal earthquake relief isn&#8217;t only unique to Hi-Rez, however, as Ubisoft&#8217;s <em>Far Cry<\/em> team has pledged to match donations made to the Canadian Red Cross of up to $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepal Earthquake Relief Chest will be available until May 17th, for anyone that is interested and happens to play <em>Smite<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than trying to guilt funds out of your pocket, Hi-Rez&#8217;s approach to raising funds for earthquake relief is a more agreeable one.<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2015\/05\/14\/asia\/nepal-earthquake\/\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hi-rez-raising-funds-for-nepal-with-special-smite-chests\/\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Raise funds for Nepal&#8217;s earthquake relief, and have fun while doing it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":75468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7571,13922,13920,639,13924,1969,5276],"class_list":["post-75458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-charity","tag-earthquake-relief","tag-hi-rez","tag-moba","tag-nepal-earthquake","tag-news-2","tag-smite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75470,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75458\/revisions\/75470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}