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By Laura Dale June 20, 2025June 20, 2025 Uncategorized

Accessibility Tags are Now Live on Steam – How Are They?

2025 has been an eventful year for the standardisation of accessibility store tags across platforms and by game developers. At GDC ealier this year we got the news that a number of game publishers were coming together to form the Accessible Gaming Initiative in order to standardise language around common

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By Laura Dale January 30, 2025January 30, 2025 Uncategorized

Ep 18: Time to Switch 2 Mindwave in The Dark Ages – Ctrl, Alt, Access

We’ve got chaotic, narrative driven Warioware games, new console hardware, and Xbox games with cool medievil mechs, from two people who maybe did or did not win awards by the time you’re watching. 00:00 – Intro01:17 – Arevya has been playing: Valheim and Balatro02:30 – Laura has been playing: Mindwave10:20

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By Laura Dale March 1, 2024March 1, 2024 Uncategorized

Pacific Drive ‘s Customisable Roadtrip Back to Reality

This past week, I have had a lot of work obligations that I needed to make time for. All I’ve wanted to do is play more Pacific Drive. Pacific Drive is a survival crafting game where you drive through a paranormal nuclear exclusion zone full of unexplained anomalies, strange glitches,

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By Laura Dale August 4, 2023August 4, 2023 Uncategorized

PS5 Gets Co-Pilot Support Via “Assist Controller” Mode

Right at the start of 2023, I published an episode of Access-Ability talking about aspects of gaming accessibility that I wanted to see the video game industry make standardized industry wide going forward. One of the topics that I discussed in that video was Co-Pilot Mode, a feature on Xbox

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By Laura Dale May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 Uncategorized

Project Gameface Enables Mouse Control Using Facial Gestures

During last week’s 2023 Google I/O event, an annual conference where the company’s developers showcase new tech developments, it was revealed that Google has been working on a piece of software called Project Gameface, a program designed to enable mouse control using face gestures, requiring nothing but a standard webcam

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By Laura Dale September 4, 2026September 4, 2026 All Posts

Pokémon Go’s Shiny Mythical Quests are Investment Traps for Compulsive Play

I’m going to be honest for a moment, at this point I resent Pokémon Go more than I enjoy it. That’s not going to stop me from playing it daily, at least for the foreseeable future. Originally launched back in 2016, Pokémon Go is a mobile app where players can

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