Saturday, April 20, 2024

Tag: Video Games

Xbox Continues to Champion the Gaming & Disability Community with New Accessibility Updates

Xbox Continues to Champion the Gaming & Disability Community with New Accessibility Updates

Gaming allows us to experience worlds beyond imagination, share our stories and forge friendships with people across the world. At Xbox we believe that...

Disability inclusion in esports and gaming can ‘change the makeup of society’

Brisbane's Justin Hua, 28, has always enjoyed playing video games. Like many kids of the 1990s it started with a Game Boy and eventually progressed to...

The Controller Project

The Controller Project recently ran a brilliant snap-on controller mods competition with Prusa Printers. This has gleaned 123 entries with potential to help physically Disabled people. One...

Quad Gods: The world-class gamers who play with their mouths

Chris Scott was falling towards the ground above Long Island, New York, when he realised that something was wrong. An experienced skydiving instructor with around...

First Annual Gaming Accessibility Awards 2020

https://youtu.be/XNzFnOaRQGY The First Annual Gaming Accessibility Awards! Alanah Pearce, Steven Spohn, and many more celebrate the games and developers who’ve helped make games more accessible...

Quadriplegic Record-Breaking Esports Gamer RockyNoHands Signs with Luminosity

Rocky Stoutenburgh, a.k.a. RockyNoHands, has just made history yet again. The pro gamer was previously inducted into the Guinness World Records 2020 and Guinness World...

Logitech’s Adaptive Gaming Kit Makes the Xbox Adaptive Controller More Accessible

Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller (XAC) facilitates gaming for players with accessibility needs. While a forward-thinking device, the XAC isn’t without limitations. To get the...

Quadriplegic ‘Halo’ Fan Builds Custom Controllers for Players With Disabilities

https://youtu.be/s83PiNLZ4Mo Quadriplegic 'Halo' Fan Builds Custom Controllers for Players With Disabilities Spencer Allen was always passionate about video games. He got into it because of the...

The new Gods of esports are paralyzed from the neck down

Players with quadriplegia are using neuroscience and video games to take on the world. On a mostly sunny July afternoon in 2014, Chris Scott jumped...

Adaptive Video Game Controllers Help Disabled Vets Recover

Some VA medical centers have realized that helping vets get back in the game can also help with their recovery. On a recent afternoon, 26...