AbleGamers News Archives

AbleGamer’s Twitch Channel: For Disabled Gamers, By Disabled Gamers

Always striving to discover new ways to push game accessibility forward, AbleGamers accepted a fundraiser looking to do something different for charities. The fundraiser involved three people playing video games live on the internet for an extended period of time.…

That Hoodie With the Corgi – AbleGamers’ 2018 Fundraising Hoodie

In other exciting AbleGamers news, we shipped out our 2018 fundraising hoodies to fundraisers who raised over $500 in support of our mission between January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. Each year our hoodie will feature a new design…

AbleGamers On (Almost) Every Continent!

What can I say? AbleGamers get around. If you didn’t already see it on Twitter, we shipped the controller setup for our first Peer Support case to Africa, meaning we’ve delivered support to every continent on Earth. Except Antarctica, FOR…

What AbleGamers Has Been Up To For May 2019

[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BMmzHIXjOA[/embedyt] AbleGamers has had another busy month! Besides the wonderful work with developers all across the industry to help push accessibility, all of the grants sent out to get people into gaming, we’ve also made a few…

What Has AbleGamers Been Up To?

A look inside AbleGamers: April 2019 This month, AbleGamers has been very busy sharing information about game accessibility all across the games industry! With speaking engagements at GAConf, GDC, and PAX East, the AbleGamers staff crossed the United States and…

A Farewell to a Friend

A Farewell to a Friend – Susan Banks One of the hardest parts about being in the accessibility field is that many of the people to work with every day have terminal illnesses. Susan Banks was one of those amazing…

What Have We Been Up To? March 2019

What has AbleGamers been up to since February? A whole lot of basketball, that’s what! This month, on March 3rd, new ground was broken with a new first for AbleGamers. The Cleveland Cavaliers and AbleGamers partnered for a special fundraiser…

AbleGamers Launches Accessible.Games Website to Connect Disabled Gamers and Developers

In the process of pushing accessibility practices further, AbleGamers began a new program to bring people with disabilities and game developers closer than ever before. AbleGamers revealed their new site Accessible.Games to give developers multiple resources for creating more accessible…

Community Member Feature: Lee Williams

AbleGamers sits down with Lee Williams, a streamer with an incredibly inspiring story and an even bigger love for his community — his saving grace. This month, AbleGamers sat down with Handikillcam, known by some as Lee Williams. Lee is…

Quest To Game: Connor

When a standard mouse and keyboard were no longer cutting it, Connor began his Quest to Game. This Quest to Game installment focuses on Connor, a gamer who just wanted to be able to play games and enjoy one of…