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PlayStation has a ‘massive internal push’ to improve accessibility in games, reveals dev

Pixelopus creative director has revealed that Sony is pushing for more accessibility options in its games so that future titles can be enjoyed by people with more diverse physical needs. Here's what you need to know.

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isarai1758d ago

I dont like that word, in most cases it leads to insulting and aggravating levels of handholding and damn near childish difficulty levels making for mind numbing experiences. Hopefully thats not the route they go, but more often than not that's where it leads

Pepin1758d ago

As per the article, what they're actually talking about is the option to have control schemes that suit people of more diverse mobility – not necessarily level design choices et al

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AngelicIceDiamond1758d ago

Hes actually talking about kids with disabilities. Like how MS is doing the whole Adaptive controller thing.

rainslacker1757d ago

If there was one thing I wish Sony would work on with MS, it's allowing the Adaptive controller to work on the PS platform.

It's one of those things that I don't think there should be competing products on the market, or at least the designs should be close enough and they should use a standardized API.

This would allow devs to code for it more easily, and it would be much more beneficial to the user. The problem in the past was that anything that did what MS was doing was never done at a core level, so support was really spotty, so the devices eventually failed. There are some rather expensive variants out there for those with various kinds of disabilities that work through button mapping routines, but generally speaking, anything coded by the dev to use such devices is usually much more accessible.

isarai1758d ago

Oh ok cool, commented before i had the time to read it :/

Smokehouse1758d ago

Making controllers for people with disabilities? Fantastic. Godlike. Coddling people’s sense of inclusion for the sake of a participation trophy? Patronizing and clownish.

SyntheticForm1758d ago

I don't know how anyone can disagree with this.

Smokehouse1758d ago

Lol Who cares? Real recognize real.

AK911758d ago

Fine by me, Spider-Man (2018) was pretty good with that.

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Frostpunk 2 Director Łukasz Juszczyk Discusses Game Balance, Politics, and Beta Feedback

TechRaptor writes, "After getting our hands on the Frostpunk 2 story, we got to sit down with Łukasz Juszczyk to talk about how the game evolved from the original."

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XDefiant dev promises fix to frustrating hit reg issues, though players remain skeptical

Mark Rubin, XDefiant’s executive producer, responded to an X/Twitter post that fixes to hit reg “are something [they] are working on.” Unfortunately, it’s unclear when it will arrive, as neither Rubin nor the development team have yet to provide an actual time frame.

just_looken3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Ha man what is this the 8th time they are working on this issue?

SO the game is using division one maps/assets with some divison 2 thrown in with that we can say they never really made the maps so what have they been doing for there 6 to perhaps 8 years of dev time? must be alot of hookers/blow/parties.

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Notellin2d ago

It's astounding how much money they blow and this is the results. Gaming development is out of control.

just_looken2d ago

Right even when ubisoft cancelled division heartland as a beta player that game was a far better state then they push with this trash of a game that is still in a beta state after 3 years of delay's.

we are so starved of any decent fps/3rd person shooters out there it seems we will take anything even though some ps2 fps games were more fun then this game in my old opinion.

FPS_D3TH2d ago

Skeptical because it was an issue with ALL the betas and still hasn’t been fixed

just_looken2d ago

Its like they are using division one servers but they caught fire then were put together with barry/carols help from the janitors wing or some shit. Three years they still can not make it so the gun goes boom the guy gets hit then damage is applied.

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The Alters Q&A - Creating a Game About the Roads Not Taken

Wccftech interviewed The Alters Lead Designer Rafał Włosek to learn more about the making of The Alters and its feature set.

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