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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 - The wait is over for the biggest game bundle event of the year as Fanatical has launched
BundleFest - showcasing some showstopper headline acts that you don’t want to miss.
The leading e-commerce retailer (www.fanatical.com) kickstarted the event on Monday with
Killer Bundle 15, an exclusive eight-game roster. The bundle includes award-winning adventures within the Dungeons & Dragons universe with ‘Very Positive’ rated fantasy RPG Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition; extreme velocities in the coolest anti-gravity ball game on the block with the ‘Overwhelmingly Positive’ rated Lethal League Blaze; and challenging courses in one of the most immersive off-road racers of the modern era with DiRT Rally 2.0 - plus many more great Steam PC titles, all for just $4.99 USD.
Project Gotham Racing, and more.
News of his passing was shared online by fellow composer Maclaine Diemer, who paid tribute to LePard on Twitter along with many of his friends and co-workers. I m deeply saddened to say that last week, my friend and colleague Stan LePard passed away unexpectedly, wrote Diemer. Knowing him helped shape and change the course of my life and my music. He was a big part of my work for
Guild Wars 2, in addition to his own musical contributions to the game. As I mentioned, he was also a talented composer in his own right in addition to his work as an orchestrator. His music can be heard not only in
Microsoft updates Xbox Accessibility Guidelines to help devs make games for everyone ); }
Microsoft has updated its Xbox Accessibility Guidelines (XAGs) based on feedback from its Gaming & Disability Community and game developers.
The guidelines were originally launched in 2019 with the aim of providing devs with a set of best practices to support the industry in driving accessibility forwards.
They were intended to be used by designers to help generate ideas while also serving as a guiding checklist for devs looking to validate the accessibility of a project.
Now, Microsoft has refined the guidelines based on a wide-range of feedback, improving the language used and eliminating jargon to ensure the guidelines are clear and easily understood, implementing better scoping questions to help devs identify which XAGs they should prioritize, and providing additional background and foundational information to make certain XAGs easier to comprehend.
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Paula Angela Escuadra is the co-chair of the International Game Developers Association Climate Special Interest Group (IGDA Climate SIG) and previously the Games User Research Lead for Stadia Games & Entertainment’s Publishing division. She holds a dual MBA/MPA degree from Presidio Graduate School of Sustainable Management.