We're back from GA Conf, and we sure have some games to discuss.

00:00 - Intro

02:14 - Oblivion

10:40 - Laura tried the Switch 2

13:09 - Donkey Kong Bannanza

14:35 - Mario Kart World

16:20 - Drag X Drive

28:50 - Metro Prime 4

33:42 - Clair Obscure: Expedition 33

37:15 - 1000xRESIST

40:00 - PS5 audio boosts including voice boost

42:31 - Steam A11Y tags

52:00 - Microsoft increase price of XBOX but not Adaptive controller

52:48 - Godot 4.5 improves accessibility support

54:42 - Days Gone Remastered accessibility features detailed

58:41 - World of Warcraft introduces Rotation Assist with Single-Button Assistant

1:01:44 - Where to find us

Expecting professionals to deliberately subject themselves to illness triggering material in order to protect others down the line from those same harms is not sustainable. We need to take seriously the fight to reduce risks before playtesting with illness impacted players.

Spider-Man PS4 demonstrated in 2020 that PlayStation can backport accessibility settings for free into older versions of titles. Their approach in the years since has placed accessibility upgrades behind a paywall.

A pretty promising selection of features available on first boot of the zombie hoard combat adventure game.

A huge step toward standardisation of an important feature industry wide, but that annoyingly misses the mark on doing so in the most industry standardised way.

This new set of audio boost features on PS5 is a game changer, both for those with hearing loss and for autistic gamers.

I spent four hours this past weekend going hands on with the Switch 2 in London. It certainly feels like a premium step up for the hardware, but it's the specifics that stuck with me in the days that followed.

An open and honest discussion about the fact I'm probably not going to be reviewing Xbox games for a while, and why that's tricky to do when accessibility coverage is my job.

This past week, two more games crossed my radar, where tonal subtext for dialogue subtitles are made explicit, as accessibility.

Affordably priced, perhaps to a fault, this new accessibility peripheral undeniably improves the state of accessibility on Xbox, while sacrificing features in the pursuit of price reduction.