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It's a Home Run! GamesCampus Announces Partnership With Hall of Fame Pitcher, Fergie Jenkins and The Fergie Jenkins Foundation
SAN JOSE, Calif. - (BUSINESS WIRE) - San Jose-based online game publisher, GamesCampus (www.gamescampus.com,
run by OnNet USA), announced today that it has established a partnership
with Hall of Fame and Cy Young Award winning pitcher, Fergie Jenkins,
and his Fergie Jenkins Foundation to raise awareness and funds for
hundreds of Children's Charities across North America. GamesCampus will
promote the Fergie Jenkins Foundation's slate of charities through its
lineup of online sports games at www.Gamescampus.com.
Founded in 2006, GamesCampus has over two million users worldwide
through its game portal www.gamescampus.com.
The company has introduced micro transaction-based game titles for all
ages worldwide. The publisher provides a wide variety of game themes
with a primary focus on online sports games in the North American market.
Fergie Jenkins, Cy Young Award winning Pitcher and Founder of the Fergie
Jenkins Foundation, was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame
in 1991. Following thirteen seasons as a successful MLB pitcher, Fergie
now focuses his winning energy on running The Fergie Jenkins Foundation
that works to raise funds to help support hundreds of local charities
for children throughout the United States and Canada, including the
American Cancer Society, Cooperstown Youth Baseball, Harlem Little
League, Juvenile Diabetes Research, South Suburban College Foundation,
Special Olympics, Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Canada, Muscular
Dystrophy, Habitat for Humanity and hundreds more.
"We are very excited about our new partnership with Fergie Jenkins and
his outstanding Foundation," said David Chang, Executive Vice President
of Marketing and Business Development for Gamescampus.com. "The
Foundation is a perfect fit for promoting our online sports games, as we
share the same core vision: serving the community through the love for
sports."
As a result of the newly formed partnership, GamesCampus and the Fergie
Jenkins Foundation will work together to promote their joint
organizations while raising money for the hundreds of charities served
by the foundation. The companies will partner on in-game advertisements
and events, as well as offline events. In addition, Fergie Jenkins will
be the first fully-modeled and motion captured MLB player to appear in
the Gamescampus's
wildly successful online baseball game.
"Partnering with GamesCampus is a perfect match for our Foundation,"
said Fergie Jenkins, Founder of The Fergie Jenkins Foundation. "Their
focus is on fun and free to play online sports games with a genuine
sense of community, and that is exactly the kind of partner we look
for-a company that has a love of sports and genuinely care about people
in need."
For more information about GamesCampus and its games, visit www.gamescampus.com.
For more information about The Fergie Jenkins Foundation including a
complete list of the charities it supports, visit www.fergiejenkinsfoundation.org.
About Gamescampus.com
Gamescampus.com (run by OnNet USA) is dedicated to changing the way
people play online games. Based in San Jose, OnNet USA was founded in
2006 with its highly successful golf simulation game, Shot Online.
GamesCampus' focus on sports and competitive games has produced
amazingly fun item-based online competitive games for all gamers through
its game portal www.gamescampus.com.
About The Fergie Jenkins Foundation
The Fergie Jenkins Foundation is a charitable organization established
in 1999 by Fergie Jenkins, President Carl Kovacs and CEO Brent Lawler.
The Foundation was formed with the hope of giving back to humanitarian
need through the love of sport. With the cooperation of many other
charitable foundations and agencies, the Foundation strives to make
lives better for those around us. The Foundation actively fundraises
across North America.
For GamesCampus
Mika Kelly, 408-693-0176
mika@clevercomm.com
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