How Stack Up is still saving lives of veterans through gaming after a decade
Veterans have had help from the Department of Veterans Affairs adjusting to work-life challenges for years. But employees at the department’s suicide crisis line and...
Stack Up and Wargaming add a suicide prevention button to World of Warships
Wargaming has teamed up with veterans nonprofit Stack Up to bring suicide prevention and mental health awareness into World of Warships, an online team...
Stack Up’s Stephen Machuga fights veteran suicide in a time of invisible threats
Twenty-two a day: That’s the rate of veteran suicides that Stephen Machuga, founder of gaming charity Stack Up, is fighting against. Machuga talked about...
The DeanBeat: Digital gaming events aren’t easy, but they may be the future
Next week marks our first-ever digital game conference, GamesBeat Summit Digital. We pivoted about eight weeks ago from our physical event in Los Angeles...
How Stack Up uses video games to save veterans from mental illness and suicide
Stephen Machuga credits video games for saving his life. In dark days as an Army Ranger captain in Iraq, Machuga escaped being harmed physically....
How video games are helping veterans with life after war
With 22 U.S. war veterans committing suicide every day, Operation Supply Drop is using games to support young vets returning home.