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With this post, we give you an insight into Evil Controllers Accessible Division ? This week, Adam (Evil Controllers' Founder) and Morgane (Head of the Accessible Gaming Division) met with Andy Lin and Hanalynn Hunt at the Rancho Los Amigos Rehab Center in Los Angeles. Andy is a Rehabilitation Engineer. In his lab at the Rehab Center, he designs countless...

Dark Souls 2 Will be Hard When the director of Dark Souls 2, Yui Tanimura, mentioned that Dark Souls 2 was going to be 'more accessible' than the previous game, many fans across the globe got agitated, taking Tanimura's words as a death sentence to the hardcore difficulty found within the first Dark Souls game. However, Yui Tanimura has just...

Ben Heckendorn, creator of the Portal Shirt When it comes to hacking hardware, Ben Heckendorn is considered something along the lines of a god. Mr. Heckendorn has been known to make hacks of hardware such as the Xbox 360 laptop and the Nes-On-A-Chip portable device. Well this time he went a different route and instead of focusing on a console...

Playing computer / video games help stroke victims in recovery. Medical scientists have discovered that video games can help in the recovery of a patient from paralysis after suffering from a stroke. From the information found here, it states from an article published in the Journal of Neuro Engineering and Rehabilitation, computer simulations and techniques used mainly in the film...

EVIL CONTROLLERS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH ABLEGAMERS Tempe, AZ. (May 2011) – After having worked closely together in the past, Evil Controllers is pleased to announce their partnership with The AbleGamers Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to helping those with limited mobility. AbleGamers is located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and they are dedicated to bringing greater...

Meet Mike Begum, avid Street Fighter 4 and gamer who overcame his challenges. Kotaku and CrossCounter TV met up with Mike Begum, who is probably one of the best Chun-Li using fighting game fans out there. Mike was born with arthrogryposis. Arthrgryposis is arare congenital condition which is characterized by multiple jointcontractualand can lead tomuscularweakness and fibrosis. In Mike's case...

Terry Proves Gaming While Blind is Possible. Terry Garrett, a mechanical engineering student from Colorado is able to play an almost perfect game of Abes Exoddus. Not impressed? When if I told you this player was not only an excellent gamer but that he is also blind. Having lost his first eye at the age of five and his second...

Industry / Accessible Gaming News: IGN works with Children's Miracle Network Video games for charity! Who doesn't love a business with a heart? Combining video games with an amazing cause,ÂÂIGN andÂÂExtra Life are pairing up for a 24-hour video game marathon to support the Children's Miracle Network. On October 16, a team of IGN editors will play video games for...

The call of Chuck Bittner and his request for action to re-map controller buttons Chuck Bittner has spoken. His call to action to access the technology to re-map buttons on today's great games has not gone unheard. Bittner is a Quadriplegic "Able Gamer" who is frustrated by the lack of attention that Developers, Publishers and Hardware creators have given to...