It is good to see a community coming together to raise money like this.

Video game war machine honors young player's memory.
 
Wander into any gaming forum thread, chat room or multiplayer-action communications, and you quickly discover that gamers can be an insensitive lot. But there are also instances where the hardcore, win-at-all-costs trash talking goes silent and they band together to do good.

Such was the case recently when players and game developers turned heartbreak over the death of a young compatriot into cash to fight cancer.

"MechWarrior Online" is a game that lets players control powerful war machines ("Mechs") and fight each other for dominance on the battlefield. The game is still in beta testing and plans to launch in mid-September but boasts more than 1.1 million registered pilots.

Five-year-old Sarah Marie Alida Parries of Vancouver, British Columbia, was one of them.

She would pilot her favorite style of Mech -- called a Jenner -- with her father, Jon, and often dominated her much-older opponents. Then, in May, she lost her battle with inoperable brain cancer.

he courage and energy she displayed along the way inspired Infinite Games Publishing and Piranha Games, the makers of "MechWarrior," to honor her in a unique way.

A customized war machine called "Sarah's Jenner" is now available in the game for $10. And all proceeds from its sale go to the Canadian Cancer Society.
 
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