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,…
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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…
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…
The Spirit of Giving: AbleGamers’ 2019 Efforts
As 2019 comes to an end, we celebrate this amazing year in accessibility. We’ve seen the continued progress for accessibility within the video game industry and it’s all because of you! You spoke up and voiced the need to invest…
Pittsburgh Penguins Donate $25,000 to AbleGamers Charity
For years, both professional sports and gaming have continued to move toward the same destination, sometimes butting heads over what is and what isn’t a sport, but ultimately settling into a place of widespread mutual respect. Earlier this year, the…
#Unlocktober 2019
AbleGamers does yearly fundraising events that pull the gaming community together towards a common goal. This past month we launched the event Unlocktober that resulted in our best October yet! The gaming community did an amazing job fundraising with totals…
Bringing Accessible Play to Pittsburgh
As an organization, Ablegamers continues to push forward and strive to make the notion that games are for everyone a reality. We took few more steps toward that realization in September with the University Of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) becoming…
Unlocktober: Unlocking Opportunities and Enabling Play for People with Disabilities
As October approaches, the gaming community is playing new releases and looking forward to games coming soon. From the AbleGamers side of things, we are already trying to accommodate the rise in Peer-Counseling Requests and Grant requests that come from…
Xbox Adaptive Controller Coming to Gamescom 2019
Across the pond, big things are happening in the name of gaming accessibility. This year at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, the renowned Xbox Adaptive Controller will make an appearance on the show floor! In the Indie Arena Booth, the newly…
AbleGamers Teams Up With Mountain Dew For A Day Of Streaming, Fundraising, and Apex Legends
AbleGamers teamed up with Mountain Dew to host a day of streaming Apex Legends featuring star streamers of the Apex Legends community as well as surprise sports streamers, raising over $64,000 for AbleGamers. The streamers were featured on their own…