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No wireless at work, can I use BT to connect iPad? 0

Submitted by happierr on Wednesday March 31 2010, @09:32PM

happierr writes "So I am getting an iPad for my birthday. My issue is we have NO wireless at my office (heck they just uninstalled IE6 3 weeks ago and pushed IE7). I have a Mac Mini on my desk that has connection and built in bluetooth. Is there a way to connect the ipad (or iphone for that matter) to use the mac mini data connection via the bluetooth? Just thought I would ask the experts."

Mass Effect 2 - Game Accessibility Review. -> 0

Submitted by happierr on Monday February 01 2010, @11:10PM

happierr writes "Everyone is raving about how great BioWare's Mass Effect 2 is. The same company that just won the "Mainstream Game Accessibility Game of the Year" 2009 with Dragon Age: Origins on PC has really missed the bar with the disabled gaming community (15% of the population) with Mass Effect 2. The game has one of the lowest ratings in mobility AbleGamers has ever given a game."
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2009 Accessible Game of Year - Dragon Age: Origins-> 0

Submitted by happierr on Tuesday January 05 2010, @09:32AM

happierr writes "Fully accessible mainstream games are the core mission for the accessible gaming movement. AbleGamers selects one game to represent the most accessible game of each calendar year. This year is no different, one video game stood out from the rest with accessibility options far beyond what most companies are willing to include.

AbleGamers is proud to present Bioware with the “2009 Mainstream Accessibility Award” for their smash hit “Dragon Age: Origins” for PC with a score of 9.8 out of 10.

Dragon Age: Origins offers some of the most astounding accessibility options seen in any game this year. With only one accessibility complaint, Bioware far exceeded expectations for an accessible title. However, the relatively small font size was immediately addressed by Bioware, bringing the number of accessibility problems to zero.

Mark Darrah, the Executive Producer for Dragon Age: Origins says, "The Dragon Age team is honored to win this award. We try to appeal to as broad of an audience as we can and accessibility is certainly part of this effort. It makes me proud to have the game this well received by this community.""
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EA SPORTS / VTREE Make Football Game for disabled-> 0

Submitted by happierr on Monday October 19 2009, @08:59AM

happierr writes "Mr. Moore stated: "We started thinking about licensing EA SPORTS' game engines, we were interested in the physical training market. Then we met several companies that were interested in rehabilitation, which had some similarities to training. When we met with Chuck Bergen and VTree, he felt strongly that our sports games could be used for both cognitive and physical rehabilitation. Bergen had written some software himself and VTree had a good track record of meeting their customers' needs, so that started us off.""
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OnLive and Gaikai - How to Stop a Gaming Revolutio 0

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on Saturday August 08 2009, @10:00AM

happierr writes "The gaming industry has been struggling in the last few months and it is about to struggle even more when OnLive and Gaikai launch later this year. They both are a step in the right direction to counter piracy and provide easily accessible gaming to people with low end PCs.

These two services might do for PC gaming what the Wii did for casual gaming; greatly expand the market and get people to play games that ordinarily would not. The services are a real threat for the Big Three videogame companies (Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo). How can they combat this new revolutionary service? There are a few steps that the Big Three are taking combat the New Two.

http://ablegamers.com/general-game-news/626-onlive-and-gaikai-how-to-stop-a-gaming-revolution.html"

OnLive and Gaikai - How to Stop a Gaming Revolution->

by happierr on Saturday August 08 2009, @09:54AM

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WarHammer's Paul Barnett Sits Down With AbleGamers - Part 1->

by happierr on Friday May 22 2009, @09:08AM

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DRM is Killing the PC Gaming Market-> 0

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on Monday October 15 2007, @10:32AM

happierr writes "Digital Rights management, also known as DRM, is single handedly destroying PC Gaming as we know it. In the industry there is an ongoing battle between the gaming makers and the pirates, and the casualty in this battle is the end user. http://ablegamers.com/content/view/119/"
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Adventurers Wanted: Disabled Need Not Apply (WOW)-> 0

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on Wednesday October 10 2007, @08:18PM

happierr writes "Lately it seems that the massive online game "World of Warcraft" is drawing everybody's attention. The creation of Irvine, CA-based Blizzard Entertainment, Warcraft is a massive online multiplayer game that boasts seven million players worldwide, each of whom pays roughly fifteen dollars a month to battle evil and quest for glory in Blizzard's complex fantasy world. An internet craze, the subject of Congressional attention, Warcraft is not just a game in some schools and communities, it is the game. It is unfathomable then, in the very month that President George W. Bush declared National Disability Employment Awareness Month as part of a landmark expansion of the Americans with Disabilities Act, that Blizzard announced its new vision of gaming — a vision where the disabled are no longer welcome. http://ablegamers.com/content/view/14/"
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