by Josh Straub | May 19, 2022 | Barrier Breaker, Features, News
Barrier Breakers are typically given out to studios who perfect or add new best-practices to an existing game accessibility feature. A new Barrier Breaker award goes to Insomniac Games for the game-speed controls featured in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart which are...
by Josh Straub | May 19, 2022 | Diamond Award Winner, Features, News
What makes an accessible game? Robust features? Simple design? Easy-to-understand gameplay? The answer is all of these and more. As I hope I’ve demonstrated for the past ten years, the best accessibility always grows out of a developer’s vision, rather than...
by Josh Straub | May 18, 2022 | Editors' Choice, Features, News
Every year, I look back on the games I’ve played and try to figure out which game I most enjoyed. You would expect most games that I choose as my favorite each year to be both highly accessible and high quality, but as I think I illustrated last year with my Editor’s...
by Carlos Moscoso | May 17, 2022 | Features, News
Far Cry is one of Ubisoft’s flagship franchises, and like many other titles in their recent catalogue, continues to raise the bar with regards to accessibility. It is rare to see a first-person shooter that offers such extensive customization. Far Cry 6 is a game that...
by Michael Matlock | May 17, 2022 | Features, News
The Life Is Strange series has always been known for its powerful stories and memorable characters. First with the developers at Dontnod and then more recently with Deck Nine, these games have helped usher in the modern narrative adventure game genre. Along the way,...
by Michael Matlock | May 16, 2022 | Editors' Choice, Features, News
I absolutely love turn-based RPGs, but they’ve been harder and harder to find in the last few years. Then came Ikenfell, a turn-based RPG about witches and wizards released for the PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Nintendo Switch. The creators over at Happy Ray...