Stack Up and Wargaming have teamed up to help veterans.
Stack Up and Wargaming have teamed up to help veterans.
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Stack Up and Wargaming add a suicide prevention button to World of Warships

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Wargaming has teamed up with veterans nonprofit Stack Up to bring suicide prevention and mental health awareness into World of Warships, an online team shooter but with battleships and destroyers instead of soldiers or other characters.

The partners have put a button inside World of Warships that can immediately link a player to Stack Up’s Overwatch Program, a suicide prevention hotline on the Discord chat service, said Stephen Machuga, founder of Stack Up, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.