Controller Company teams with Video Gamer With MS To Make Video Games More Accessible

[theotherbaldwin]

Steve Spohn has muscular dystrophy. He is also an avid gamer. With a bag of rice, some duct tape and Xbox 360 controller parts, he is working with a video game accessory company to keep himself in the game.

Arizona-based Evil Controllers specializes in modding video game controllers to make them accessible to gamers that have special needs. Steve's

Comments

[pretzelcoatl]

This is really cool.

I haven't gotten a chance to read it yet (I just saw it mentioned at a panel at Wiscon, but http://www.ablegamers.com/ seems to be really geared towards that kind of thing).

[unclelumpy]

Didn't the NES have a control you could move with your chin and press buttons by blowing into a straw?

[theotherbaldwin]

Sure did!

[akktri]

I need to buy one of those controls just so the XBox games can stop kicking my ass.

[theotherbaldwin]

Yeah, I always wondered why controllers weren't moremodular by default.