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Show and Yell
I had a really enjoyable evening on Friday at the “Show and Yell” event run by Pixel-Lab. In a packed room, various indie game developers spoke of their passions in gaming and talked about their latest work. Absolute highlight of…
Interview with Randy “N0M4D” Fitzgerald – Pro Gamer
Sometimes in life, you meet someone that became inspirational by doing something simple, something people may be doing every day. Randy “N0M4D” Fitzgerald is one such person. He plays video games. To be precise, he plays video games extremely well,…
Retro You’re Brand New
William Pilgrim has created a 4Noah utility aimed at making a number of Atari VCS (aka 2600) games playable with the SPACE BAR alone. Set an accessibility switch to this and you can make games, that were never designed to…
Entitlement
Robert Fearon of Mersey Remakes and mind behind the hardcore/opencore arena shoot-em-up “Squid Yes! Octopus Not So!” trilogy has Entitlement Issues. Us too. Please. Read on…
Accessibility: Creating Games For A Diverse Audience
Meagan Van Burkleo of Game Informer has posted an excellent break down of what many disabled gamers want from their games. Giving importance to all four broad divisions of disability: Physical (including speech), Cognitive, Sight and Hearing, this is a…
GameGuard Shuts Down Disabled Gamers
Steve Spohn, game journalist @ AbleGamers.com, has done a great job on a story about how GameGuard, an anti-hacking software used by many Asian based MMO’s use disabled technology used by the disabled gamers. The story has already been noticed…
The Importance of Customisable Controls
“While it’s always beneficial when games support the four standard thumbstick configurations (Default, Southpaw , Legacy* and Legacy-Southpaw, it’s also imperative to remember that full controller customization is a necessity for some. In fact, the implementation of completely customizable…
We Love Hideki Kamiya!
Graeme Singh recently proved that a 2D one-switch fighting game was both possible and fun with his PC title Way of the Exploding Hand 2. Watching the video above, Japan’s Platinum Games seem to have proven the same for 3D…
AbleGamers sits down with Chris Sigaty Lead Producer of Starcraft II
Blizzcon was a flurry of information on all of the newest upcoming titles from Blizzard. AbleGamers was there covering all the action for all of our disabled gamers across the world asking the questions you want to hear. AbleGamers own…