Xbox Celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Category: Announcements May 15, 2025 Xbox Celebrates Global Accessibility Awareness Day Xbox Accessibility Team Global Accessibility Awareness Day, celebrated annually on the third Thursday of May, is dedicated to recognizing and raising awareness about the importance of accessibility. With billions of people playing video games in the world, including nearly 450 million players with some…

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US senator introduces online porn ban proposal to ‘safeguard American families’, making a tired old ‘won’t somebody think of the children’ argument familiar in videogames

When everything is on fire—or at least distracting you by insisting it’s on fire—it’s hard to focus on any single blaze, but Republican Senator Mike Lee of Utah has added to the list of worries for US citizens using the internet. Lee wants to criminalize online pornography, and while that’s alarming enough as is, his…

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GTA 5 Enhanced may have ‘Mixed’ reviews on Steam, but the update has opened new doors for modders pushing the boundaries of reality in a sandbox now over 10 years old: ‘We have an amazing opportunity to take things further’

The creator of NaturalVision, the renowned GTA 5 visual overhaul mod series, reckons the crime sim’s Enhanced iteration on PC marks an “amazing opportunity” to further blur the lines between video games and realism. With NaturalVision Enhanced set to land today, May 15, Razed and his team are pushing GTA 5 further than they’ve ever…

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Turns out, Super Mario 64 can trap you in a menu for 2.25 years—as long as you wait that long beforehand: ‘This is a fair punishment’

Super Mario 64 is perhaps one of the most well-understood, picked-apart games in existence—a storied speedrun community with years of experience and inquisitions into the game’s code means that, every so often, you stumble across a piece of eldritch knowledge that has no impact on the world whatsoever, but is nonetheless true. For example, did…

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