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Everyone Can Play collectable pin is a shield with an open door to the sky in the background and a light blue fist holding a yellow lightning bolt in the foreground

Disability Awareness Pin “Everyone Can Game”

October is the National Disability Employment Awareness Month. To promote awareness, the Accessibility at Bungie team has worked with their VizD and consumer products teams to create a new Disability Awareness pin. All profits from sales of this pin during…

AbleGamers Appoints New Director of Peer Counseling

Today we announced the appointment of Dr. Andy Wu as our new Senior Director of Peer Counseling. Bringing with him over a decade of expertise in occupational therapy and a deep understanding of program development, Dr. Wu will directly manage…

Steven Spohn, AbleGamers Chief Operating Officer sitting in front of a bookshelf full of books

Building the capacity to do more good.

Steve Spohn wasn’t supposed to live past 2. He rang in 40 by raising $1 million for AbleGamers Charity Article by JOSHUA AXELROD Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Turning 40 means more than a midlife crisis to Steve Spohn. The Bethel Park resident…

A screen shot of the AblGamers Brazil founding meeting there are 18 in attendance

Official Founding Meeting of AbleGamers Brazil

On July 28, 2021, the official founding meeting of AbleGamers Brazil took place. AbleGamers Brazil is the first charity in Brazil with a focus on gaming for people with disabilities and the first AbleGamers outside the USA. This is an…

a smiling Mark Barlet, founder and Executive Director of the AbleGamers wearing a teal suit jacket, light blue shirt, orange tie and royal blue glasses

Mark Barlet Receives Vanguard Award

Mark Barlet, Founder Of AbleGamers, Receives ‘Games For Change’ Vanguard Award 2021 Mark Barlet, founder of AbleGamers, is the 2021 recipient of the Vanguard Award by Games for Change, a non-profit that promotes the power of games for social impact.…

Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2021

For 17 years, we’ve told the story of how our charity’s mission started, but after the year we had last year, we realized we’re just getting started. Our vision is not only accessible games but inclusive communities and development teams.…

Announcing the Launch of The DPAD Initiative – Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity

Today, our team is excited to announce the launch of the Developers Promoting Accessibility & Diversity (DPAD) Initiative! We believe the gaming community is an incredible place where so many unique players can form valuable connections with each other. That said,…