Capcom announces partnership with suicide-prevention charity CALM

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Street Fighter X Tekken launch to benefit at-risk youth

It's well and good to say, “I damn near 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-slaughter, the Street Fighter X Tekken developer is dead against – and has the charity partnership to prove it.

Capcom's contribution sees the company auctioning off two enviable SfxT-related lots. The first auction will be for 30 exclusive SFxT prints, signed by producers Katsuhiro Harada and Yoshinoru Ono. The second auction is for “a very limited number of tickets” to the Street Fighter X Tekken Grand Final media event, with the highest bidders also attending a private launch event on March 9. Both auctions' proceeds will be donated in full to CALM, whose website 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 prevention can start here.

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