Canadian Internet Service Provider Rogers has agreed to stop throttling its customers' connections, after pro-Internet group OpenMedia.ca and the Canadian Gamers Organization filed multiple complaints with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Wikipedia has posted a thank-you message on its Black Out Page thanking visitors for strongly participating in yesterday’s SOPA-PIPA protest. On Wikipedia’s SOPA Learn More Page, the site lists a number of interesting milestones from yesterday:

Firefall developer Red 5 has been so inspired by the level of support and good will towards it for its planned SOPA/PIPA protest tomorrow that it has made them think that there needs to be more advocacy for gamers and game makers. With that in mind, they have launched League for Gamers, an advocacy group that will fight against government and corporate efforts to stifle the free speech and creativity of gamers.

A new petition on Change.org, which already has over 1,800 signatures, is asking Electronic Arts to publicly come out against the Stop Online Piracy Act. The petition was created by New York University student and gamer Shashank Kasturirangan. The petition is directed at Tammy Levine - VP of Worldwide PR, Joel Linzner VP of Business and Legal Affairs, EA CEO John Riccitiello, and SVP of Corporate Communications Jeff Brown.

Children’s charity (powered by the goodwill of the game industry and the gaming community) Child's Play raised a total of $3,512,345 in 2011. The group also announced that it has raised over $10 million since its launch in 2003. Both are pretty impressive numbers and the group deserves praise and recognition for its continued work on behalf of sick children in 80 hospitals around the world. Here's more from the web site:

Calling it a "socially responsible adventure," MindJolt SGN announced the release of Fluff Friends Rescue. The iOS game, which was developed with the help of the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), challenges players to rescue pets, nurse them back to health, run their own animal shelter and contribute to The HSUS.

Speed Demos Archive is looking for some help to raise money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, starting on January 4. As you can probably glean from the title of the group, they are dedicated to running through games in the shortest amount of time possible, and enjoy posting their exploits on places like YouTube for notoriety’s sake.

Kotaku points out that those of us who believe in the history and tradition of the video games industry should donate to the American Classic Arcade Museum. The American Classic Arcade Museum is located in New Hampshire's Funspot arcade.

The Humble Indie Bundle 4 has ended, and was the biggest bundle offering to date, selling 435,236 bundles for a total of $2,372,194.97. By the end of the pay-what-you-want DRM-free indie games bundle event, the organizers offered a total of 12 games including Nightsky HD, Cave Story+, Gratuitous Space Battles, Jamestown, Bit.Trip.Runner, Super Meat Boy, Shank, Crayon Physics Deluxe, VVVVVV, Cogs, Hammerfight, And Yet It Moves, and a bundle of soundtracks. 

Non-profit gamer charity The Ablegamers Foundation has awarded the Disabled Veteran Grant 2011 to three disabled veterans - just in time for the holidays. The group awarded two Xbox 360 gaming systems complete with a one-year subscription to Xbox Live Gold, and one completely customized Xbox controller from Evil Controllers to the recipients of its annual event.

The Humble Indie Bundle 4 is on fire, already generating nearly $1.8 million and well over 340,000 bundle sales. The pay-what-you-want promotion has added an additional five games into the mix from Humble Indie Bundle 3 as well as their full soundtracks. To get all these extras, consumers simply need to pay more than the average price of $5.16.

Charity event Play for Good has launched, with the proceeds of this initiative going to SpecialEffect, a charity dedicated to helping young people with disabilities enjoy computer games in the UK. For many disabled children, the majority of computer games are simply too difficult to play, but with the help of this charity families can learn which games are accessible, and how to adapt those games that aren't more accessible.

Phaedra Boinodiris, serious games program manager at IBM, writes a guest editorial on Forbes exploring the way that games can be used to energize and enhance other things besides research projects. The point of her editorial is that researchers have been helped greatly by games created to solve problems that take advantage of "collective intelligence," and global participation.

On December 2 we told you that video game charity Get-Well Gamers Foundation would be celebrating its 10th anniversary on December 3 with a special holiday event supported by IGDA LA (the International Game Developers' Association's Los Angeles Chapter) and WIGI (Women in Games International). The celebration commemorated ten years of helping sick kids by giving them toys and games to keep their minds off their medical treatments and serious illnesses.

Add-A-Tudez Entertainment Company and Team KAIZEN won a grant from HASTAC and The MacArthur Foundation to develop educational levels using the PlayStation 3 game LittleBigPlanet 2 (www.littlebigplanet.com). The levels created by the team have since went live among the over five million user created levels that are already free to play in the LittleBigPlanet Community.

Gamer and game industry-powered children's charity Child's Play has managed to raise an impressive $1.5 million in 2011 so far, with over $10 million donations made to date since it was launched by Penny Arcade's founders in 2003. This year's target number is $2 million, which is still a reachable goal before January 1, 2012.

The Humble Introversion Bundle closed earlier this week, selling 190,261 bundles for a grand total of $778,643.57.  The dough will be divided up between Humble Bundle itself, the developers of the games included in the bundle, and two charities: the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play.

As always seems to be the case, Linux users paid the most, averaging $8.78 with Mac users following at $5.90 and Windows users bringing up the rear at $3.40.

A teen from Cupertino, California has won a $100,000 science prize for research on cancer stem cells and two teens from Oak Ridge, Tennessee won the top team honor for using a video game to conduct research on the science of walking to benefit amputees who rely on prosthetics. The 17-year-old, Angela Zhang, won the top honors at the Siemens Foundation’s annual high school science competition. The top team prize went to two students from Oak Ridge, Tennessee, for their research using gaming technology to analyze motion while walking.

The AbleGamers Foundation, a charity and advocacy group dedicated to finding and highlighting games and technology that enable disabled gamers to play games, has released its 2011 Holiday Shopping Guide For Disabled Gamers. This annual list is the compilation of the very best technology and devices available that are tailored for gamers with disabilities. The 2011 edition of the guide includes some annual favorites of the group, along with game controller technology, and more.

Video game charity Get-Well Gamers Foundation celebrates its 10th anniversary December 3, with a special holiday event supported by IGDA LA (the International Game Developers' Association's Los Angeles Chapter) and WIGI (Women in Games International). They are celebrating ten years of helping sick kids by giving them something to do while waiting for serious medical treatments.

With barely five days until the end of the latest Humble Bundle, it looks like the latest - the Humble Introversion Bundle - is on track to rake in the big bucks for the various games' developers, the EFF and Child's Play. At the time of this writing, right around 163,599 bundles have been sold, raising approximately $666,831.18 so far. With five more says to go, it's possible that the latest DRM-free bundle offering from Introversion will beat last month's Humble Voxatron Bundle - which raised $902,448.

Customers who pay more than the average price for the Humble Introversion Bundle will get Dungeons of Dredmor for free. The pay-what-you-want bundle that lets consumers divide the money up between the game's developer, Child's Play, or Electronic Frontier Foundation can get Uplink, Darwinia, DEFCON, Multiwinia, and two bonus prototype games - the Voxel Tech Demo and the Subversion City Demo. These last two are prototypes, or works in progress. If you pay more than the average price currently being offered, you can also get Crayon Physics Deluxe and Aquaria.

The six-day charity marathon, Desert Bus For Hope, has finally made it to its destination and its cargo seems to be suitcases full of cash for the Child's Play Charity. After six full days (150 hours) of playing the ultra-boring "Desert Bus" mini-game from the unreleased Sega CD game Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, the group that included the creators of the Loading, Ready Run web show and other masochists managed to raise $378,895 for the Child's Play charity.

After first offering DLC early to customers and then being threatened with a class action lawsuit, EA has decided it will now honor its E3 promises to give Battlefield 3 customers a digital copy of Battlefield 1943. Last week during the holidays, the company said that the whole thing was just a big misunderstanding and that they would now give North American and European customers what they wanted in the first place. The company posted the following message on its support web site:

Another week, another Humble Bundle. This time out Introversion's line-up of games are the focal point of the bundle. By choosing to pay what you want (and divvying that money up between the game's developer or the Child's Play or Electronic Frontier Foundation charities), you can get Uplink, Darwinia, DEFCON, Multiwinia, and two bonus prototype games - the Voxel Tech Demo and the Subversion City Demo. These are prototypes which means they are works in progress.

Sadly we missed the beginning of this year's Desert Bus for Hope charity, but the good news is that it is still going on and you can get involved if you haven't already.

UK game industry charity GamesAid announced the results of its recent Gem Golf & Spa Day event for charity. According to the group, they managed to raise £62,607.56 this year. The event, which took place on June 30, invited members of the game industry to play a day of friendly golf tournaments or get spa treatments. All proceeds will be donated to GamesAid's chosen charities. This year’s take was also a 19 percent increase over the 2010 event.

Six men in Scotland are going to war this weekend, but the fight isn't for the survival of the human race - it's for a good cause. They will take part in a 48-hour Gears of War marathon to benefit their favorite charity. The six combatants taking part in the 48 hour Horde 4 Charity event are Sean Kiddie, Colin Henderson, Alistair Cowan, Kyle Hatch, Stephen King (not the horror writer), and Neil Castle.

After a two-week run, the Humble Voxatron Debut is now closed.  So, how’d it do?

Humble Bundle sold 172,261 bundles for a total of $902,448.11 making it one of the lower earning bundles but certainly not a comparative failure.  Here’s how the previous bundles shook out:

UK-based game industry charity GamesAid has announced a date and venue for its next Darts Night, the proceeds of which will go towards "a diverse range of charities." The next GamesAid Darts Night will take place on November 23 at The Horseshoe pub (24 Clerkenwell Close, EC1R 0AG) in London. MPG Universal have signed on as the event’s official sponsor.