{"id":25919,"date":"2018-06-15T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/320119"},"modified":"2018-06-15T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T22:10:00","slug":"sales-from-fallout-76-country-roads-cover-will-be-donated-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/sales-from-fallout-76-country-roads-cover-will-be-donated-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Sales from Fallout 76 &#8216;Country Roads&#8217; cover will be donated to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 4th, Bethesda Softworks will be donating 100 percent of sales made from the song used in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M9FGaan35s0&amp;utm_source=SocialMedia&amp;utm_medium=bitly\"><em>Fallout 76&#8217;s<\/em> announcement trailer<\/a>\u00a0to Habitat For Humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The company tweeted out the announcement earlier this week, citing\u00a0all sales of the cover of John Denver&#8217;s &#8220;Country Roads&#8221; purchased from iTunes will go directly to funding Habitat For Humanity, a non-profit organization which seeks to\u00a0build\u00a0affordable housing with the help of volunteers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time a company has donated\u00a0their proceeds to a charitable cause, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317775\/Pink_Mercy_skin_comes_to_Overwatch_all_proceeds_go_to_charity.php\">as Blizzard<\/a>\u00a0partnered with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation just\u00a0last month to donate funds\u00a0made from sales of a limited-edition skin to go towards the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We&#8217;re rebuilding America \u2013 and the world &#8211; for the better with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Habitat_org?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Habitat_Org<\/a>! Starting July 4th, visit iTunes to get the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Fallout76?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Fallout76<\/a> cover of &#8220;Country Roads\u201d as heard in the announcement trailer. 100% of our proceeds will go to funding Habitat for Humanity! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KlZ42DYcH9\">https:\/\/t.co\/KlZ42DYcH9<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MrXNmfKmcd\">pic.twitter.com\/MrXNmfKmcd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n\u2014 Bethesda (@bethesda) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bethesda\/status\/1006191362025381888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 11, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting July 4th, Bethesda Softworks will be donating 100 percent of sales made from the song used in Fallout 76&#8217;s announcement trailer\u00a0to Habitat For Humanity.\u00a0 The company tweeted out the announcement earlier this week, citing\u00a0all sales of the cover of John Denver&#8217;s &#8220;Country Roads&#8221; purchased from iTunes will go directly to funding Habitat For Humanity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}