bit-tech News: Feature - Is Accessibility Killing PC Gaming?

news · August 31, 2008

Hi all,

We have just published a feature that tries to answer the question: *Is

Accessibility Killing PC Gaming*? If you could post a link on your site

that would be very much appreciated.

*Link:*

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*Quote:

*/The renewed focus on creating deep but accessible game experiences is

to my mind the real reason that games are changing and that PC games are

often being said to be getting consolified -- but there's a real

difference between a poor console port and a game which has been

designed to make the best of both worlds.

Games are a technology driven industry and that means it's inherent to

their nature to change over time. The push to make sure that games are

accessible experiences which don't require huge time commitments to get

familiar with could be the thing to push games into their next form,

like the transformation from 2D to 3D worlds.

PC games aren't dying and I hope they never do, though I did admittedly

say the same thing back when the word went around that the adventure

game genre was being put in its coffin. Games, like times, are changing

though and I for one am ready to embrace the evolution of games from

deep and over-complicated affairs to streamlined and more open

experiences and as long as we don't lose the fun-factor in the

transition then I don't really see what there is to complain about./

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*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley

www.bit-tech.net

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