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Sony announces Project Leonardo accessibility controller

January 5, 2023VG247

Unveiled at CES, the pad is Sony’s response to the Xbox Adaptive controller. Sony has announced Project Leonardo: a heavily customisable controller aimed at broadening accessibility for the PS5 and opening the doors for many out there with disabilities to play for longer and with greater comfort. Its key features include high customisable physical components and software, as well as collaboration options with other devices so players can set up their controller in a unique fashion that works best for them. You can watch the Project Leonardo announcement trailer here! Starting with physical customisation, Project Leonardo allows you to swap…

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NBA 2K23 gameplay changes have been revealed – improved accessibility, new techniques, and better AI

August 3, 2022VG247

NBA 2K23 is nearly with us, releasing September 9 this year. In the build up to launch, we’ve learnt a lot about the gameplay changes coming to the hugely popular basketball game. This includes improvements to shooting, dribbling, and blocking with new gesture combos, AI improvements, accessibility features and more. We’ve broken down each major change coming with the latest release from 2K, so if you want to hit the court running, check out each major gameplay change coming to NBA 2K23 below! Watch the NBA 2K23 trailer here! First, there’s the pro stick and a vast selection of new…

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Disco Elysium has added dyslexia-friendly fonts for those million words

July 1, 2022RockPaperShotgun

Detective RPG Disco Elysium is not short on words, and now that text is a little more inviting. A free update yesterday added the option to display text in fonts which are intended to be easier to read for people with dyslexia. The popular OpenDyslexic typeface is used for many languages, while Russian and Korean have their own fonts. I have a touch of the ol’ dyslexia myself, and do find this font helps me a bit. Read more

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Sony shows commitment to accessibility with new PlayStation website

December 15, 2021VG247

If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. PlayStation’s new information portal shows the platform holder taking accessibility in games seriously. When it comes to accessibility, PlayStation has long been behind its peers. With Microsoft leading the way with custom controllers tailor-made for people with disabilities, Sony’s silence on the matter has slowly become a disappointment to many of the differently abled. Thankfully, it seems as though Sony heard those complaints, as now it has launched a brand-new accessibility website for PS4 and PS5. In a bid to…

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The Accessible Games Database helps find games with the features you need

October 4, 2021RockPaperShotgun

Accessibility options for games, big and small, have become a more frequent topic of conversation in the last few years. Even just recently, Destiny 2 is adding a full-auto mode while EA are sharing their accesibility feature patents. Depending on what features you need access to though, it can still be a chore to find out exactly what options a game will support. The recently launched Accessible Games Database aims to help catalog games by a list of different accessibility features. It’s launched with over 140 games logged so far, and the creators say they’re planning to add more every…

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EA letting other devs use their patents for accessibility features like Apex pings

August 24, 2021RockPaperShotgun

Electronic Arts have offered to let other developers use five of their technology patents for accessibility features for free, saying they hope this will encourage “to build new features that make video games more inclusive”. The patents they’re offering include the ping system from Apex Legends and colour blindness tech they use in Madden NFL. It’s unpleasant that they patented them in the first place, and that companies even can patent features that make games more accessible, but I guess at least they are sharing now. Read more

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Patent suggests PlayStation might be working on a user-created tips system

January 13, 2021VG247

By Alex Calvin, Wednesday, 13 January 2021 14:42 GMT This could be the latest step the firm is taking to make games more accessible. PlayStation maker Sony Interactive Entertainment is seemingly looking into a system that would allow users to leave tips for other players.As spotted by Scrubwiki – and reported by VGC – this patent lays out a method of making and displaying tags that help other users in-game.“Such tags introduce an additional dimension of community participation to both single and multiplayer games,” the patent reads.“Through such tags, players are empowered to communicate through filtered text messages and images…

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Ghost of Tsushima, Ooblets, Rocket Arena, Paper Mario – do July’s big games pass the accessibility test?

August 5, 2020VG247

July saw the release of another highly anticipated PS4 exclusive, Ghost of Tsushima. While it doesn’t come close to being the accessibility gem that last month’s The Last of us: Part 2, it and Ooblets have made for a pretty great July during a pandemic, with beautiful biomes to explore and dance battles to be had when many of us are still stuck indoors. Ghost of Tsushima took some time to grow on me with Sucker Punch’s decision to tie navigation to watching the wind blow. When I reviewed it on launch day, I still wasn’t a fan. I wasn’t…

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