Accessibility Game Review – The Outer Worlds
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free The Outer Worlds is the latest offering from California-based developer Obsidian Entertainment. This company is best known for its work on role-playing games like Pillars...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – DAGERS Diamond Award 2018
The DAGERS Diamond Award was always intended to be given to the game that best represents the DAGERS core belief that an accessible game can be a good game for everyone, and Super Smash Bros is a perfect example of that.Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has been...
Accessibility Game Review – Super Smash Bros Ultimate
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free The accessibility of Super Smash Bros Ultimate has challenged my bias that the Switch is an inherently less-accessible system. Simply put, Super Smash Bros Ultimate will be...
Accessibility Game Review – Gears 5
Visual Barrier Free Fine-Motor Barrier Free Auditory Barrier Free Barrier Free In preparation for this, I reread our review of Gears of War 4, which was the first time developer The Coalition worked on Microsoft’s storied third person shooter franchise. When...
Disability Game Review – Marvel’s Spider-Man
Visual Partially Accessible Fine-Motor Partially Accessible Auditory Barrier Free Partially Accessible It was my express privilege to partner with Insomniac to bring accessibility features to Spider-Man for the PS4. Normally at DAGERS, staff members who...
Announcing – DAGERS Barrier Breaker Award
Every year since 2012, DAGERS has awarded its annual Diamond Award. This award has served as our game of the year recognition that salutes the highest standards of accessibility and gameplay, but as the profile and interest in Game Accessibility has exploded over the...
Editor’s Choice – Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Looking back on this past year, I want to give a shout out to a game that I believe made some big strides in accessibility. 2018 was a great year for game accessibility in general. I saw that Sony had continued to push for their exclusives to incorporate...
Editor’s Choice – For The King
At GDC in 2018, one of the games that I had the privilege of previewing was For The King by IronOak Games. I knew then that I was looking at one of the most accessible indie games that would be released in the coming months. What was unclear at...
Editor’s Choice – God of War
When it came time to make a recommendation for DAGERS Editors' choice, I was faced with a decision that was more difficult than that which I'm accustomed to when choosing a game. This is simply because more emphasis was placed on accessibility...