Or, where did they get those 7-128 Software PizzaGames?Orange, our late cat, used to tap the keyboard to make the DOS cursor move. When folks at Perkins School for the Blind asked for games for very young children, it was only natural to combine that with Jack-in-the-Box to come up with Here Comes the Duck!In Duck, the child taps the keyboard and an animal appears, its name is displayed and spoken (via on-board speech synthesis or the JAWS screen reader) and its sound is played.Then the child does it again... until, at some random point, the Duck appears, quacking loudly and chasing the other animals away. Great fun, if you’re two. Unusual, possibly unique, if you are blind.Or deaf; there’s a closed caption bar that d...
It is that time of year again, the good folks over at MMO Portal have their great MMO Calendar for 2009. This is a great calendar, and for the benefit of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
I want to let the readers of AbleGamers know, I ordered 3 of these last year, gave one to a gamer at work, I had...
Technology is an amazing concept, isn't it? In the span of less than a dozen decades, we have gone from horse drawn carriage to horsepower, from moonshine to moonwalk, and from human processing to microprocessors. What always amazes me is how technology always seems to find its way into a Hollywood movie before...
No game is ever perfectly balanced for all players. Some struggle through challenges others find too easy. This is normal, and a good game makes up for it with replay value and a great story. But what happens when players are allowed to buy their way ahead -- literally? I'm not talking about players buying gold o...
Blizzard, creators of World of Warcraft, gave a wonderful gift to a 10-year-old boy in 2007 who was dying from a brain tumor. In cooperation with the Make a Wish foundation, Blizzard whisked 10-year-old Ezra Chatterton to their headquarters where he was given several unique gifts both in and out of game.
How would you like to play your favorite game with... your tongue?! It is not as gross or as far fetched as it might initially seem. Researchers at Georgia Tech are working on the Tongue Drive system that uses a magnet placed on the tip of the tongue. In its current form, you wear headgear with sensors around the cheeks that pick up the movement of your tongue. Those sensors then wirelessly send that info to a receiver at the top of the headgear. The receiver uses its software to decipher and send your tongue
movement c...
If you're a gamer, then the month of September 2008 will be
an early Christmas for you. With the
highly anticipated game "Spore" set to release at the end of the month,
Warhammer online moving into its final stages of beta, with the go live date of
less than two weeks, Fable II, and Force
Unleashed for the console lovers, September is drawing to a close one of the
worst dry spells for games we've all seen in a long time.
And wanted to take a few minutes to share with the community
some of the customizations in the inter...
So before we jump into this interview, I want to tell you how much work it took to get it. As you know, AbleGamers is not a power house of gaming news, and to be honest, we are okay with that. We reached our as early as 2005 for an interview, but we could never get a call back. So once every 3 or so months we sent a request in, and our inboxes would remain empty (well except for the male enhancement pills and home mortgage offers). I mean, think about it, we were a site for disabled gamers, and there is this game with like a t...
I would like to thank Eric Walker, CEO and Project Manager,
for taking the time to sit down with AbleGamers and discuss their new game
Strange Attractors 2. Let's get to it!
Steven Spohn: First
and foremost, congratulations on the success of the original Strange
Attractors. How much similarity is there
between the sequel and the original? In
addition, given the huge success of the original, do you feel there is more
pressure to produce a game that is equally as groundbreaking and fun?
