AbleGamers Blog Archives

Announcing the Launch of The DPAD Initiative – Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity

Today, our team is excited to announce the launch of the Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity (DPAD) Initiative! We believe the gaming community is an incredible place where so many unique players can form valuable connections with each other. That said,…

The Potency of Unity: An Open Letter from A Black Gamer

Author’s Note, Updated 6/4/2020: I wrote this open letter about a year and a half ago. Today, I circle back to this letter, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, continuing a tradition infused in the DNA of…

Charting The Future With The Freedom Wing

Hardware remains to be a key point in the fight for accessibility in the video game industry. This past week, AbleGamers and ATmakers revealed a victory for making video games truly for everyone: The Freedom Wing. The Freedom Wing is…

PTSD & Gaming: How Can It Help?

While thinking of what topic to write about, I noticed PTSD being a frequent topic within the news of the world as well as within the world of gaming. It’s been a topic I’ve wanted to cover. PTSD is listed…

Interview with Jessie Hall, AbleGamers Director of Engineering

With her recent promotion to Director of Engineering for AbleGamers, Jessie Hall has continued her work pushing gaming accessibility even further in her many years of development. We got a few minutes of time out of her busy schedule to…

How Gaming Helps Me Cope With Mental Illness

[Editor’s Note: Content Warning for Domestic Abuse] It was 1990 when my mother got me my first console: a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I was five years old. When we plugged it in, bright cartoonish colors emerged on the…

The Need For More Disabilities In The Games We Play

Video games have grown popular in today’s culture. Because of this, their growing popularity could be used to help educate, as long as the companies offer an accurate representation of the disability, whether it be physical or mental. When I…

Sounds Like Representation

Have you ever met someone and, as you get to know them, find yourself in a perpetual state of astonishment? That’s how I’ve been feeling as I’ve gotten to know Eddy Webb (with a “y”), a self-described “writer, designer, producer,…

Beyond Games: Looking At Disability Representation In Film

As with every other medium under the sun, it can be said that cinema has often failed to do right by people with disabilities. Though characters with disabilities have often been at the center of award-winning, critically acclaimed films such…

Logitech’s Increased Inclusion Through New Hardware Releases

Logitech G has recently launched two products with the idea of accessibility and continues to push the boundaries of improved gear and game integration in the world of gaming. AbleGamers and Logitech share similar goals to better the greater gaming…