Alt-Gamers.com is a great campaigning accessible gaming site best described by themselves: “The lack of support for alternative controls in the modern gaming world is becoming a major concern for many console gamers. With first and third person shooting games…
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Alt-Controls.com and AbleGamers petition Sony
Established Accessible Gaming site AbleGamers.com and new-ish kids on the block Alt-Controls.com have teamed up to launch a laudable petition aimed squarely at Sony’s PS3 division. They want support built in at a firm-ware level for reconfigurable controls. The petition…
1981: The Year Zero of Accessible Gaming
Some interesting information has turned up in TheGameReviews.com’s “Truly Innovative Controllers For Disabled Gamers” article. Does it really cost $500,000 to “just to talk to about creating a controller for their XBox platforms”? Frightening if so. There’s some historical…
GDC ambassador award: Michelle Hinn…
…that would be pretty sweet. But not yet, Michelle Hinn, chair of the IGDA’s GASIG has this to say and needs all the support we can muster: “I am writing you today because one of the (if not the biggest)…
NanoGames.com
The on-line resource of accessible games NanoGames.com is slowly transforming into something very special indeed. Tweaking game settings has become easier, the web-site has been beefed up with helpful information: things are looking impressive. NanoGames.com owner and designer Dennis Asher…
Access Controller – Video Review
360 Magazine – “The Forgotten Gamers?”
Alice Bonasia has written a fine six-page article on the state of game accessibility as represented by the Xbox 360 magazine – “360“.It opens: “As the games industry continues to look for that elusive ‘Blue Ocean’, is it actually missing…
Accessibility and Rock Band
From AbleGamers: “The great people over at Harmonix have sent us two “ROCK BAND – SPECIAL EDITION”, one for Playstation 2, and one for XBOX 360 for us to use in our fund raising efforts for GDC [promoting accessibility at…
Unique Custom Gaming Controllers – part 2
Mark Felling of Broadened Horizons and “KitsuneNoYume” worked together to build a pretty marvellous bespoke controller to suit Kitsune’s particular abilities, much as MERU did for Frankie in the previous post. This fantastic work spread to the news portals of…
Unique Custom Gaming Controllers – part 1
MERU and others have created some fantastic bespoke controllers for people needing unique solutions. This from their Summer 2008 newsletter: “Nineteen-year-old Frankie has Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, a progressive, muscle-wastin condition. As a result, he has severely limited mobility and this…