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Published by: One Switch on 15th Sep 2010 | View all blogs by One Switch

PlayGamer issue 15 (Aug-Sep 2010)

Bill's too modest to post this up, so I'm going to. There's a fantastic feature in this month's PlayGamer magazine that includes a big chunk on the Accessible GameBase.

It's £2.99 in most UK stores, and available across Europe too. A four page spread on accessible gaming charities, with a nice bit on us (Oxford HQ pictured).

I've cribbed a bit from the article (click read more), but for the whole thing go out and buy a copy whilst you can.

"Gaming's helping hand: Videogames rarely get a positive press these days but, as Rob Boffard discovers, there are plenty of charities and organisations using gaming for rewards that go far beyond the 'Mission Complete' screen."

"Bill Donegan's lab is a console modder's dream. Scattered across the various trestle tables are patchbays and switch units, old-school joystick controllers, a cusomised Dreamcast console and several eye-tracking cameras. There's also something you won't see in a mod workshop: several large, brightly coloured plastic buttons hooked up to the consoles. The yellow and blue ones in front of us are labelled left and right. This isn't the kind of set-up the majority of gamers will be entirely familiar with...."

"...Donegan's lab is the nerve centre of SpecialEffect, a charity with the goal of bringing videogames to disabled people who can't play them through normal means. Donegan spends his time working out how to customise and adapt both the controllers and the games themselves to work around people with everything from carpal tunnel syndrome to full quadriplegia..."