Capcom announces partnership with suicide-prevention charity CALM

It's well and good to say, “I damn ne꧋ar wanted to kill myself when I found out Ghouls and Ghosts was twice as long as I thought,” but if you're talking real, actual, inexpressibly tragic self-sl꧟aughter, the Street Fighter X Tekken developer is dead against – and has the charity partnership to prove it.

Suicide is the single largest killer of young men in the UK*, a figure the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) aims to rectify. CALM says that since its launch in 2000, suicide rates in the charity's base of Merseyside have dropped by 55%. CALM's Simon Howes says the charity is “delighted” to be working with Capcom on its🥃 next partner campaign, demonstrating “how the gaming industry can work for social good” while rai𒐪sing funding and awareness of an issue that plagues the industry's key demographic.

offers a look at the campaign's initiatives and community.

* In the US, suicide is in the top 5 killers of young people; US suicide rates per capita across the general population are almost double those of the United Kingdom. While this story focuses on a UK initiative, American readers wanting to find💙 out more about suicide danger and prevent🐓ion can start .

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