Diaster relief from/for gamers

Community is a powerful thing, and global gaming communities no less so. Everquest II and Halo 2 are leading the charge in gaming to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, the BBC reports. Sony Online Entertainment has created a special "/donate" command line for Everquest II players so that, when they type the command in, "they're automatically taken to the American Red Cross's Hurricane 2005 relief page to make a donation. Sony also said that, for Everquest II's 13,000+ players in areas where the hurricane hit, it'll be "suspending billing until such time as they are able to play again" and preserving game artifacts that normally would decay when not used by players.