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This article was originally published November 2018. Back in September [2018], Microsoft made history with the first mass-market video game controller designed with disabled gamers first and foremost in mind. The Xbox Adaptive Controller, which won [2018]’s Golden Joystick award for best innovation, was developed in conjunction with […]
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dyzbmw/avengers-shows-how-subtitles-are-more-complicated-than-just-text This week, I spoke to Vice’s Waypoint about Marvel’s Avengers, and their implementation of non verbal subtitles.
In Marvel’s Avengers, there are a few scenes where non verbal subtext is made explicit in the game’s subtitles. While not for everyone, i found these moments incredibly helpful, and would love to see more of them.
Film and TV have standardized describing visuals for partially sighted or blind viewers. Could we implement something similar for video games?
Video Games Love using giant spiders as enemies. This is a problem for a surprisingly large percentage of the world population.
As a person who thrives on predictable routine and structure, the last six weeks for me have been pretty rough. I’m an adult living with Aspergers Syndrome, an Autism Spectrum Disorder, rigidly obeying self isolation due to the UK’s Coronavirus lockdown. I’m perhaps better off than many, I’m […]
https://www.fandom.com/articles/animal-crossing-and-aspergers In my first feature for FANDOM, I wrote about how Animal Crossing provided routine and structure at a time in my life where i needed it.
Hey everyone, it’s 2020, and we’re about to have a ridiculously busy year in the video games industry. There’s two new game consoles releasing before the year is over, the PS5 and the Xbox Series X, and with them we’ve got a year ahead of us likely to […]
As part of a very well written article by Wired released earlier today, gamers all around the world now know a little bit more about Sony’s next generation gaming console. The machine, now officially called the PlayStation 5, will support ray tracing on a hardware level, will load […]
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