PlayStation has led the industry when it comes to accessibility, with first-party studios like Naughty Dog, Santa Monica Studio, and others all innovating to ensure its PS5 and PS4 titles can be enjoyed by more people. This has led to the Japanese giant winning a number of awards for its efforts, and later this year it’ll release the PS5 Access Controller, a new peripheral designed in collaboration with various charities in order to ensure everyone can play.
With accessibility becoming an important talking point across the industry, Push Square – along with our wider Hookshot Media family, Nintendo Life and Pure Xbox – has partnered with the Family Gaming Database to incorporate its in-depth accessibility information on over 1,400 games into our website. This means you’ll get a detailed breakdown on both game pages and reviews about the kind of accessibility options included in a given release. You can refer to our God of War Ragnarok review as an example.
Andy Robertson, the founder of the Family Gaming Database, said of the partnership: “This is an exciting moment for the database. Not only do we get to get this important information in front of readers of Nintendo Life and other Hookshot Media’s websites, but their support means we can further invest and expand our coverage of accessibility data. This partnership proves the value and ease of including this data on editorial sites and I fully expect this is the first of many partnerships.”
And our very own overlord, Hookshot Media’s Anthony Dickens, added: “We wanted to provide accessibility information for our readers, but do more than simply listing the settings a game offers. The partnership with Family Gaming Database enables us to highlight games that offer well-designed accessibility that makes a real difference to players. We also link to their full accessibility report for the full picture.”
We sincerely hope you’ll find this information beneficial and useful, and we look forward to spotlighting the accessibility information for tentpole titles like Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 and more moving forwards.
[source taminggaming.com]
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Massive shout out to Andy and Ant for bringing this to life! Awesome stuff! 👏
That's really cool for those that need this kind of information. I like how the info fits in kind of seamlessly and can be expanded upon where needed
"Nintendo Life and other Hookshot Media’s websites" We're just an 'other' website to them?!
Just checked it out the Family Gaming DB and a few reviews on here, and man, that function was implemented in a really nice way. I'd even go as far to say that if I would want to know anything about accessibility in a specific game, I would start at this website.
Amazing job to both teams
Great work and appreciated effort. Thanks, team!
Very cool! Ensuring websites are accessible is a big part of my job. I'll always support an increased awareness of accessibility.
Worth pointing out you can also search by accessibility option! If you click Games at the top of the site, there is a new search filter category for accessibility. If you tick an option, it'll show you games that have that feature!
Love all this new info feeding into our sites, great work to all involved!
That’s a real good addition, easy to access too.
Top job fellas.
This is fantastic. Great news 👍
Absolutely superb, great work!
Wonderful! Great job!
I first saw this on NintendoLife's Pikmin 4 review and figured it was a feature being implemented to all of the sister sites.
Really cool addition to reviews!
You a good bunch! Well done, Push Square and FGD folks
Perfect. 😀
Now make filters, so I can get rid of articles like "Games released this week", "Best PS5 games" etc. that still plagues Timeline and this site will be the best. 😉
Yeah this can only be a good thing, well done folks
Nice additions to the site.
I first noticed this on the Nintendo Life Pikmin 4 review yesterday. It's a wonderful feature, and I hope you'll be able to add it to older game reviews as well!
A good step forward.
One of the key accessibility 'conditions' we have is left handedness. Approx 9% of the population. And yet because the left handed tend to just get on with it, they tend to get forgotten.
Can you believe that in 2023 there are still games released that specifically do not cater for 9% of the population?
Even the Playstation options makes it such a bind (no pun) to get to the accessibility options on the PS5 and turn on left handed mode for the controller thats its as if they'd rather the persky customers not bother.
So good step forward - but I do feel calling out developers for their shocking ignorance is the way to shame them in to action.
As exmaples note that Cypberpunk still doesn't have appropriate left handed options at present and a more recent example, Leyers of Fear (re-release) does not either. Prey does not, tbh its just shocking how what must be a free common API is ignored.
Attracts scorn I know, but what other 9% group of the population could be specifically excluded these days of equity without an outcry?
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