{"id":56387,"date":"2018-10-19T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/329007"},"modified":"2018-10-19T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T20:26:00","slug":"call-of-duty-black-ops-4-introduces-special-in-game-items-to-support-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/10\/19\/call-of-duty-black-ops-4-introduces-special-in-game-items-to-support-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 introduces special in-game items to support veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activision Blizzard announced a new in-game pack for <em>Call of Duty: Black Ops 4<\/em>\u00a0today to support the Call of Duty\u00a0Endowment,\u00a0an international effort aimed to\u00a0help unemployed and underemployed veterans in the U.S. and U.K. find high-quality careers.<\/p>\n<p>This event falls in line with other charity events publishers have campaigned in the past, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/317775\/Pink_Mercy_skin_comes_to_Overwatch_all_proceeds_go_to_charity.php\">with Blizzard most recently<\/a> providing a limited-edition Pink Mercy skin where all proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Research Fund.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Call of Duty Endowment is a non-profit foundation started in 2009 by Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick, aiming to identify and fund the\u00a0most effective employment-focused veteran-serving organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Titled the salute pack, it retails for $4.99 USD\u00a0and is available now in the in-game store and the Sony, Microsoft, and Battle.net online stores. It includes\u00a0a special Call of Duty Endowment in-game tag, sticker, gesture, calling card, and emblem.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred percent of proceeds will go directly to the Call of Duty Endowment\u2019s\u00a0mission statement\u00a0to help veterans in the U.S. and U.K. secure meaningful, long-term\u00a0careers when they leave military service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activision Blizzard announced a new in-game pack for Call of Duty: Black Ops 4\u00a0today to support the Call of Duty\u00a0Endowment,\u00a0an international effort aimed to\u00a0help unemployed and underemployed veterans in the U.S. and U.K. find high-quality careers. This event falls in line with other charity events publishers have campaigned in the past, with Blizzard most recently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56387","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\/56387","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=56387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}