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Why Game Accessibility Matters
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Cole Phelps, badge 1247, reporting for duty.

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There are more games than ever to play, yet I struggle to find the good ones to play. Here I …

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What better way for a king to spend his time than at dinner with loyal subjects?

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From silly to serious ESA Marathon provides great videogame speedrunning entertainment for charity !

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Padlocks and digital clocks in escape room supposedly set in 19th-century witch's hut? So-called escape room logic is banal and …

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