
Now successful its 3rd year, the Access-Ability Summer Showcase is backmost to redress the deficiency of meaningful accessibility accusation crossed the ongoing video crippled showcase season. As we spot advancement broadly dilatory down, it's besides a timely reminder of the bully enactment that's inactive happening successful pursuit of greater accessibility successful gaming.
"At a clip wherever we are seeing a slowdown successful accessibility adoption successful the AAA games space," organizer Laura Kate Dale says, "we're showing that determination are absorbing accessible games being made, games with unsocial and absorbing features, and that being accessible is thing that tin bring an further assemblage to acquisition and play your games."
The showcase is growing, too. In 2025, it's longer, much packed with games, and streamed concurrently connected Twitch, Youtube (where it's besides disposable on-demand), and connected Steam's beforehand page. That maturation comes with its ain challenges - mitigated this twelvemonth by Many Cats Studio stepping successful arsenic sponsor - but the AA Summer Showcase provides an accessible level successful effect to the eye-watering costs of showcasing elsewhere (it has antecedently been reported that presenting trailers crossed Summer Game Fest starts astatine $250,000), …