| Gamers at the eGames & Entertainment Expo will compete to help The Bonnie Babes Foundation |
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| Thursday, 02 November 2006 | |
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“The Bonnie Babes Foundation is a very important and worthwhile cause and we are very pleased that our event will be able to help raise much needed funds to assist the charity. When you think that one in four Australian pregnancies result in loss, it’s easy to see why the work of the Bonne Babes Foundation is so important for our society,” commented Noel Gray, Managing Director, Australasian Exhibitions and Events. The EGE ‘PC Build Off’ will involve some of Australia’s best (case) modders and selected members of the audience competing to see who can build a PC the fastest - from scratch - using state-of-the-art parts, including Intel’s new Core2Duo processor. Judged by the Editor of Atomic magazine, Logan Booker, the winner will be awarded the PC they built as their prize. Four of the ‘custom built’ PCs will then be auctioned off, with all proceeds given to The Bonnie Babes Foundation. A number of other items will also be auctioned off to help raise additional funds for the foundation. “We are very pleased that the eGames & Entertainment Expo has found such a different way in which to help raise funds for our foundation,” commented Debbie Chalmers, Counsellor, Bonnie Babes Foundation. “The gaming industry is an enormous industry that touches such a wide cross section of our community, so we are thrilled that this important industry event has come on board to help our foundation, which also touches such an enormous section of our community,” she added. The Bonnie Babes Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation which provides group, individual and telephone counselling and raises funds to assist vital medical research projects which aim to reduce the statistics of one in four pregnancies resulting in a loss. The majority of exhibitors at the eGames & Entertainment will use the expo as the launching pad for new products, which means that visitors to the expo will be among the first to see, try and buy some of the latest gaming products to hit the Australian market. Exhibitors include Nintendo, who will showcase their new Wii console three weeks before launch to the Australian market, Sony Computer Entertainment, Auran Games, Madman Entertainment, LG, Microsoft, Scorpion Technology…and many, many more.
eGames & Entertainment Expo will be officially opened by The Honorable Marsha Thomson, Victorian Minister for Information and Communication Technology at 2.15pm on Friday 17 November.
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