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By Laura Dale December 22, 2022

Game of the Year Accessibility Awards

So, another year is now over, and with the new video game releases basically finished until 2023, we here at Access-Ability thought that we should get with the times, and organise our own accessibility focused Game of the Year Accessibility Awards show. While this year’s awards will be focused largely

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By Laura Dale December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

Video Game Accessibility Has Come So Far

I’ve been publishing weekly episodes of Access-Ability for around two and half years now, with over 125 videos / articles published in this series so far, and in that time period alone, it’s undeniable that we’ve seen incredible strides forward in the quantity, and quality, of accessibility settings options available

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By Laura Dale December 12, 2022December 22, 2022

Why don’t we talk more about cognitive accessibility? – Eurogamer

https://www.eurogamer.net/why-dont-we-talk-more-about-cognitive-accessibility I was recently interviewed by Eurogamer as part of this article about cognative accessibility and video games. As someone whose disabilities often impact memory and mental processing, a lot of the accessibility tools I value are often not thought of as acessibility tools at all.

By Laura Dale December 9, 2022December 9, 2022

“The Devil in Me” and Supermassive Games’ Inconsistent Accessibility Support

If you’re a fan of interactive horror games, you’re probably aware of Supermassive Games, the studio behind the development of Until Dawn, The Quarry, and The Dark Pictures Anthology, a collection of games focused on making narrative choices and reacting to sudden gameplay prompts, in order to survive various horror

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By Laura Dale December 2, 2022

Street Fighter 6’s “Button Mashing” Dynamic Control Scheme

A few months ago, back in the summer of 2022, we here at Access-Ability took a trip to Capcom’s offices in London, to go hands on with Street Fighter 6’s new, more accessible, “Modern” control scheme, which reduces the series’ traditional input complexity and allows most of the game’s core

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By Laura Dale November 25, 2022November 25, 2022

Shiny Hunting’s Accessibility Downgrade in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

Back in January of this year, Pokemon Legends Arceus was released, bringing with it a whole host of changes to the Pokémon formula that, in my opinion, were largely to the series benefit. From the addition of a Pokédex that required actual research to complete, to overworld encounters that allowed

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By Laura Dale November 16, 2022November 16, 2022

Pokémon: Scarlet and Violet Accessibility Review

Just a few short days from now, on November 18th 2022, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, the newest mainline entries in the Pokémon series, are due to be released on Nintendo Switch. Despite this, very little gameplay from the pair of titles has been publicly shown, outside of carefully curated trailers,

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By Laura Dale November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

Saints Row: High Contrast Mode In a Non Sony Exclusive

Originally released a couple of months ago, back in late August, Saints Row 2022 is a somewhat more grounded reboot of a series of over-the-top open-world titles of the same name, which began as a tale of gangs fighting for power, and escalated to the President of the United States

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By Laura Dale November 3, 2022November 3, 2022

God of War: Ragnarok Accessibility Review

Originally released for the PS4 back in 2018, Santa Monica Studio’s God of War reboot saw the titular character, former God of War Kratos, attempt to provide a better and safer life for his son, while journeying to deliver his wife’s ashes to be scattered from a distant mountaintop. Released

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By Laura Dale October 27, 2022October 27, 2022

Bringing PlayStation Games to PC is Important for Accessibility

While first-party PlayStation games have, historically, only appeared on PlayStation home consoles, that stance has been starting to change a little over the past couple of years, as more and more of the company’s tentpole releases have been released on PC, albeit a little bit later than they’re released on

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By Laura Dale January 24, 2023

Forspoken’s Intriguing Accessibility Options

At the time of writing this review, a handful of hours before the official release of Forspoken, I had not had a chance to play the final game. Review embargo for the title lifted at the moment the game was made available for purchase in Australia, but mere hours away

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