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Official Founding Meeting of AbleGamers Brazil

On July 28, 2021, the official founding meeting of AbleGamers Brazil took place. AbleGamers Brazil is the first charity in Brazil with a focus on gaming for people with disabilities and the first AbleGamers outside the USA. This is an…
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Posted on: August 10, 2021 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Written by: AbleGamers Charity
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Mark Barlet Receives Vanguard Award

  Mark Barlet, Founder Of AbleGamers, Receives ‘Games For Change’ Vanguard Award 2021 Mark Barlet, founder of AbleGamers, is the 2021 recipient of the Vanguard Award by Games for Change, a non-profit that promotes the power of games for social impact.…
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Posted on: July 28, 2021 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Written by: AbleGamers Charity
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Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021

For 17 years, we’ve told the story of how our charity’s mission started, but after the year we had last year, we realized we’re just getting started. Our vision is not only accessible games but inclusive communities and development teams.…
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Posted on: May 20, 2021 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Written by: AbleGamers Charity
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Announcing the Launch of The DPAD Initiative – Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity

Today, our team is excited to announce the launch of the Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity (DPAD) Initiative! We believe the gaming community is an incredible place where so many unique players can form valuable connections with each other. That said,…
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Posted on: August 4, 2020 Last updated on: February 10, 2022 Written by: AbleGamers Charity
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The Potency of Unity: An Open Letter from A Black Gamer

Author’s Note, Updated 6/4/2020: I wrote this open letter about a year and a half ago. Today, I circle back to this letter, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, continuing a tradition infused in the DNA of…
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Posted on: June 4, 2020 Last updated on: June 5, 2020 Written by: Gregory Haynes

Charting The Future With The Freedom Wing

Hardware remains to be a key point in the fight for accessibility in the video game industry. This past week, AbleGamers and ATmakers revealed a victory for making video games truly for everyone: The Freedom Wing. The Freedom Wing is…
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Posted on: February 17, 2020 Last updated on: February 17, 2020 Written by: Javy Gwaltney

PTSD & Gaming: How Can It Help?

While thinking of what topic to write about, I noticed PTSD being a frequent topic within the news of the world as well as within the world of gaming. It’s been a topic I’ve wanted to cover. PTSD is listed…
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Posted on: February 17, 2020 Last updated on: February 17, 2020 Written by: Catherine Brody

Interview with Jessie Hall, AbleGamers Director of Engineering

With her recent promotion to Director of Engineering for AbleGamers, Jessie Hall has continued her work pushing gaming accessibility even further in her many years of development. We got a few minutes of time out of her busy schedule to…
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Posted on: February 17, 2020 Last updated on: February 17, 2020 Written by: Prin DeJesus

How Gaming Helps Me Cope With Mental Illness

[Editor’s Note: Content Warning for Domestic Abuse]   It was 1990 when my mother got me my first console: a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I was five years old. When we plugged it in, bright cartoonish colors emerged on the…
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Posted on: February 17, 2020 Last updated on: February 17, 2020 Written by: Neesa Sunar

The Need For More Disabilities In The Games We Play

Video games have grown popular in today’s culture. Because of this, their growing popularity could be used to help educate, as long as the companies offer an accurate representation of the disability, whether it be physical or mental. When I…
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Posted on: January 20, 2020 Last updated on: January 19, 2020 Written by: Catherine Brody
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