No Barriers to Fun!

We met our friend Giddeon at the AbleGamers Accessibility Arcade in Atlantic City, New Jersey. When he first sat down with the AbleGamers crew, Giddeon didn't want to play any games. He told us that with his disability gaming was difficult. Giddeon has a rare disease that caused the growth of his arms .. Read More
A Window to the World

Shepherd University invited the AbleGamers Foundation to come on campus and do one of our Accessibility Arcades for the students and local disabled community. The event was a roaring success with hundreds of children and adults coming out to see the technology and in some cases experience gaming the first time. Read More

About the AbleGamers Foundation

Since 2004, the AbleGamers Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, has served more than 56 million members of the disabled community by advocating greater access in video games. Today, AbleGamers is a leader in the development of equipment, programs and services to those living with disabilities, hardships, and quality-of-life issues that are a result of chronic illness or trauma. It is our goal to ensure that all people, regardless of their disability, can use gaming as a tool to have enriched social experiences with friends, family, and the world at large.

Mobile WoW Apps for iPad, iPhone, and More

Written by Steve Spohn

Published on 12 January 2011

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{sidebar id=1}The World of Warcraft Remote Auction House is a service being offered through iTunes for the World of Warcraft lover to monitor their auctions while away from home or too lazy to get off the couch. With mobile devices being all the rage nowadays, Blizzard continues to add as many additional perks that “do not affect gameplay” for a small amount of charges as possible.

Although the number of transactions is limited to 200 per day, the remote auction house allows iPad/iPhone/Android users to check their auction houses for free or spend $3 to buy, bid, and sell without logging into the game. But it doesn't end there.

Soon you will be able to chat with guild mates as if you were logged in through the application. Blizzard continues to promote a community atmosphere but not so much because they are goodhearted people (although they can be, they've given to AbleGamers in the past). If Blizzard can hook us further and further into the world of social gaming, it is far less likely that we will be able to justify quitting the game.

At the end of the day, it is the friendships you forge in an MMO that keep you paying the monthly subscription fee. After all, if you were going to play a single player game, you would buy a console and just be done with it. Instead, we pay our $15 a month and deal with the stress of briefing players all to spend time with our online friends.

World of Warcraft is also not the first to bring players into the fold by offering applications for mobile devices. Guild Wars also offers a similar feature allowing players to chat with their buddies via the app.

wow_on_ipad_splash “More than just chatting, offline players will be able to help out their online friends, locating them on a map and helping to guide them towards quest destinations, cities, and towns,” says Kotaku about the Guild Wars application.