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Indie Spotlight – Serious Sam 4
I have long had an appreciation for indie titles and their developers for their ability to create experiences that buck the industry trend and do something entirely unique. Every once in a while however, there is one indie title that comes along that, while it doesn’t...
VIDEO – Accessibility Game Review – Torchlight III
Kyle's Torchlight III review is live! Have a watch to see if this action RPG is accessible for your impairments. Be sure to subscribe for weekly accessibility videos.
Accessibility Game Review – Nick Kart Racers 2
Visual Partially Accessible Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Thoroughly Accessible Thoroughly AccessibleThe first Nickelodeon Kart Racers game from 2018 felt like a rough draft that was shoved out the door as a final product. It had a solid foundation but lacked...
Accessibility News Roundup – PS5 UX, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, and FIFA 21
PS5 User Experience Click here to read more The PlayStation 5 release is fast approaching, but Sony has been tight lipped about new accessibility features coming to the console until now. Recently, they presented a first look at the new console's user experience (UX)....
Accessibility Game Review – Mafia: Definitive Edition
Visual Inaccessible Fine-Motor Partially Accessible Auditory Thoroughly AccessiblePartially AccessibleMafia: Definitive Edition is the latest offering from Hangar 13, and it seeks to reinvigorate the 2002 classic by giving it a dose of modern technology. As a fan of...
VIDEO – Accessibility Game Review – Star Wars: Squadrons
Check out DAGERSystem's first video Accessibility Game Review of Star Wars: Squadrons. In it, Kyle Abbate discusses the game's features, controls, and settings and rates it for auditory, visual, and fine-motor accessibility so you know if you can play it before buying.
Accessibility News Roundup – Oct 3 – 10, 2020
Xbox Series X Accessible HardwareClick here to read more Back in 2018, Microsoft surprised a lot of people when they announced the Xbox Adaptive Controller, which was designed to give disabled gamers more customization with customizable gaming tech (switch control,...
Accessibility News Roundup – Sept 27 – Oct 3
Marvel's AvengersClick here to read moreLast month Marvel's Avengers launched with an already impressive array of accessibility features! There's combat camera recovery to help those with motion sickness, button press customization, color coded subtitles, remappable...
A Letter From the Editor-In-Chief – Oct 8, 2020
Dear DAGERSystem Readers, It’s with gratefulness and some amount of awe that I look back on the last eight years. If you had told me when I founded the site as a one-man game accessibility blog back in 2012 that it would grow into the community it is today, I would...
Indie Spotlight – Behind the Screen
Don't trust the talking heads behind the screen! Behind the Screen is a Taiwanese horror puzzle game set in the 1970s that centers around a boy’s life and his attempts to figure out whether his past is real or just in his head. It was developed by 18Light Games for...
Accessibility Game Review – Ghost of Tsushima
Visual Partially Accessible Fine-Motor Partially Accessible Auditory Partially Accessible Partially Accessible Ghost of Tsushima is a spiritual successor to the Assassin’s Creed franchise and a love letter to classic Samurai sagas, both of which hold a special...
Indie Spotlight – Disco Elysium
Disco Elysium is the first endeavor from studio ZA/UM. It’s an RPG set in a world known as Elysium decades after a war ravaged it. The world of Elysium is the brainchild of Estonian novelist, musician, and ZA/UM studio founder Robert Kurvitz, and it first appeared in...
Accessibility Game Review – Animal Crossing: New Horizons
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free I came to Animal Crossing: New Horizons with absolutely no prior knowledge of the franchise. Friends who are fans told me that they didn’t expect I would like it. Its laid-back nature...
Resident Evil 3 Remake Accessibility Update
Escaping a zombie-invested city isn't easy especially when a giant hulking monster is out to destroy you and your friends! Resident Evil 3 remake is a modern retelling of the survival horror game Resident Evil 3: Nemesis developed by Capcom and released on the...
Accessibility Game Review – The Last of Us: Part II
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free Disclaimer: Naughty Dog provided DAGERSystem with a code to play and review The Last of Us: Part II in time for its June 19, 2020 release date. To say that The Last of Us Part II is the...
Indie Spotlight – Cloudpunk
Cloudpunk is the latest game by Berlin-based developer Ion Lands. It’s a game that’s essentially Blade Runner meets The Transporter, and this is by no means a bad thing. The player assumes control of Rania, a woman starting her first shift at the eponymous parcel...
Accessibility Game Review – Doom Eternal
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Inaccessible Auditory Barrier Free Partially Accessible Doom Eternal is the latest entry in the franchise that can rightly be considered the godfather of the first-person shooter genre. As a follow up to 2016’s Doom, it follows the...
Indie Spotlight – Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark
In my continued quest to stave off boredom in this time of quarantine, I have stumbled across yet another highly accessible and incredibly polished indie gem. Developed by 6 Eyes Studio, Fell Seal: Arbiter’s Mark is a spiritual successor to Final Fantasy Tactics that...