On October 10, The AbleGamers Foundation opened up its first arcade for people with disabilities in the Washington D.C. public library. This is the first permanent arcade for disabled gamers and it is an addition to the library.

"Our partnership with the AbleGamers Foundation brings the freedom, fun, and independent of video gaming to DC residents with disabilities," said Chief of DC Public Library's Adaptive Services Division, Venetia Demson in a press release.

EVIL SPREADS ACCESSIBLE GAMING A LITTLE FURTHER
Evil Controllers donates an accessible controller to the AbleGamers' 2012 Children's Grant Program

Tempe, AZ. (August 2012) - Earlier this month, the AbleGamers Foundation announced their AbleGamers 2012 Children's Grant Program. The program will award children 15 years or younger a onetime grant for the use of gaming equipment. Evil Controllers is proud to announce that they will be donating one accessible controller to the grant program.

Evil Controllers is the industry leader of custom controllers and accessible controllers with over six accessible controllers available

Evil Controllers and The AbleGamers Foundation

If you aren't familiar with the AbleGamers foundation, you should be. The AbleGamers foundation strives to bring accessibility to all gamers. This is a goal that Adam Coe, president of Evil Controllers, shares with them. Together with the AbleGamers foundation, Evil Controllers can help make controllers that are more accessible to gamers with limited mobility.

The AbleGamers work hard to increase the accessibility to all games; they reach out to game developers and game insiders to make large industry changes. Oftentimes simple solutions can make a game that would normally be largely inaccessible to a large audience, fully accessible. One of these changes for example is the simple option

Ben Heckendorn, creator of the Portal Shirt

When it comes to hacking hardware, Ben Heckendorn is considered something along the lines of a god. Mr. Heckendorn has been known to make hacks of hardware such as the Xbox 360 laptop and the Nes-On-A-Chip portable device. Well this time he went a different route and instead of focusing on a console, he focused on apparel and one of this year's best selling games, Portal 2.

Ben created the world's first Portal shirt. Yes, you heard me, a portal shirt,which you

EVIL CONTROLLERS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH ABLEGAMERS

Tempe, AZ. (May 2011) – After having worked closely together in the past, Evil Controllers is pleased to announce their partnership with The AbleGamers Foundation, a nonprofit organization committed to helping those with limited mobility. AbleGamers is located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia and they are dedicated to bringing greater accessibility in the digital entertainment space so that people with limited mobility can gain a greater quality of life and develop a rich social life that gaming can bring. Evil Controllers has had limited funding to produce accessible controllers and the partnership with AbleGamers will allow the production of three new controllers.

EVIL CONTROLLERS PARTNERS WITH CHICAGO HIGH SCHOOLERS TO SAVE THE WORLD WITH GAMING

Tempe, AZ. (April 2011) – In the April spirit of going green, Evil Controllers is partnering with high school team Gamers Go Green from Chicagos Whitney M. Young High School to host the first-ever green Game Hour. Led by students Daniel Romero, Evan London, Noelanni Alvarez, Courtney Mills, Donte White, Adam He, and supported by the one and only Evil Controllers, Game Hour will occur on April 23, 2011.

But what is Game Hour? Its simple. On Saturday, April 23, at any selected hour of the day unique to each family, Evil Controllers and Gamers Go Green will ask everyone to abstain from the use of the electricity in their house. Sound familiar? Maybe, because something like it has been done before. But

This weekend, I was lucky enough to have the chance to attend PAX East in Boston. It was my first gaming convention and I have to say, I had a blast.

From the beautifully designed booths (and the ones that obviously had been put together very last minute to say the least), to the intriguing panels to the cosplay that probably took months to design, to the worst sandwich I think Ive ever eaten (that cost me $12!!!), everything about PAX was new and exciting to me.

The convention experience started on Friday with me basically just exploring and getting a feel for the area. I met with Paige and Summer from Fandomania.com (who were so friendly!), and our good friends Mark, Steve, and Ben from AbleGamers, and started off filming an interview

AbleGamers

AbleGamers is a nonprofit foundation that runs off of www.AbleGamers.org. The story behind the company is heartwarming, but what the company has done since 2004 is what truly touches someones soul. They found a problem of the lack of help when it came to people with disabilities and gaming, and they created a solution of providing help for those in need. AbleGamers is hosing a Panel at PAX-E, which is a three-day tournament, free play, panel discussion and exhibit for tabletop, videogame, and PC gamers. ­­Its such a large conference and provides an array of amazing opportunities for AbleGamers. AbleGamers will be attending PAX-E as a team or people with disabilities,