
That Dragon, Cancer developer Numinous Games and AbleGamers are leading a new project focused on video game accessibility. The Playability Initiative is building a one-button adventure game for children with spinal muscular atrophy and provides educational resources for both players and developers.
Jorien “Sheever” van der Heijden is lively when we sit down to chat. A five-time veteran of The International, this…
As if the world was not bleak enough already, thieves stole a Playstation 4 from a children’s cancer ward in New…

A couple weeks ago, I wrote about Crashlands, a mash-up of Diablo, Pokemon, and Don’t Starve lobbed at Steam’s…

Video games offer their players a much-needed chance to escape the stresses of real life, however temporarily. One…

"If you were hoping to hear about video games..." he says, pausing for a moment. Comically gruesome gameplay footage…
Someone who's helped get a lot of great video games in your hands needs your help now. Brandon Boyer—the chairman of the Independent Game Festival and a relentlessly exuberant champion of all sorts of video game creativity—fought off cancer last year. But the expenses of his medical care came out to a whopping… Read more
Ron Nakada, a senior software engineer at Blizzard who has worked on World of Warcraft, got married earlier this…
Graham Henry was 16 years old when he was diagnosed with cancer. Today, at age 18, he's cancer-free and testing…
This poster is part of a new series of ads put together by the Liga Contra el Cancer in Peru, urging men to play…
Because you demanded it, medieval beat 'em up Castle Crashers is getting a new brawler armed with a lollipop and…
While PlayStation 3 thieves busy themselves punching women in the face, an Xbox thief in North Carolina breaks into…
The actor who voiced Steve Scott in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and played King Koopa in that ill-conceived Super…
Sarcastic Gamer and Texas Children's Hospital teamed up to raise money with a 24-hour gaming marathon called Extra…
Sarcastic Gamer and Texas Children's Hospital (where yours truly went for many a medical malady in her youth) are…