Former Nintendo executive Reggie Fils-Aimé has announced a brand-new podcast with award-winning journalist and author Harold Goldberg. The seven-part series, called Talking Games with Reggie and Harold, is a charity podcast aimed to help New York City high school students (particularly in the Bronx borough) currently living in homeless shelters.
Reggie and Harold hope to bring games, systems and games lessons via GoFundMe donations to benefit the New York Videogame Critics Circle. The NYVCC is a nonprofit arts organization that teaches journalism courses and gives scholarships to underserved communities.
They recognize that the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected “students in homeless shelters, who live in complex situations in the best of times and are having trouble even connecting to a WiFi hotspot right now.”
During the pandemic, NYVCC will make their journalism courses available online to educators across the country at no cost.
Reggie and Harold have a goal to raise $15,000, with any additional donations going directly to NYVCC and their continuing mission of educating high school students. They have already raised over $500 in just the first six hours of going live.
Doners will be able to access exclusive content as well as a private auction of NYVCC’s rare videogame memorabilia (such as an issue of Nintendo Power magazine autographed by Shigeru Miyamoto, creator of Mario), and a chance to ask Reggie a question to be answered on the podcast.
The podcast premieres later this month, and their first guest will be Game Awards producer Geoff Keighley.
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