Every year we’re grateful for the amazing One Special Day support from the global games industry in helping to bring incredible gaming moments to physically disabled gamers across the world! With this year’s event taking place on Friday 6 October, we’re again inviting the industry to partner with us in a variety of ways, through…
The UK games industry and friends will take on the Anfield Abseil on 22 September in aid of SpecialEffect’s annual One Special Day campaign! Companies and studios from across the games industry including Sony Playstation, Lucid Games, Wushu Studios, Criterion Games, Escape Technology, Ripstone, Secret Mode, Playdemic, VTime, NDreams, Amiqus, Press Engine and Xbox will…
Chris has doubled his gaming fun thanks to ongoing support and advice from our specialist assessment team. Chris has Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and our team first helped him with a carefully-configured adapted gaming controller setup in 2020. He’s since found gaming more difficult, so his family got back in touch to see whether we could…
Paul’s life-changing injury didn’t just devastate his own gaming, it had a big effect on the people he’d enjoyed playing with. A high spinal injury in 2013 left him with virtually no finger movement and very limited arm movement, and the loss of his Call of Duty camaraderie and competitiveness was particularly felt by his…
Brenda’s overjoyed to be back playing the game she’s loved for over 30 years thanks to an adapted controller setup devised by our specialist assessment team. She’s a huge Legend of Zelda fan, but weak muscle strength and reduced fine motor skills due to multiple sclerosis meant using a standard controller to play hadn’t been…
A shift from automatic to manual is giving Brandon the all-important chance to compete at a higher level in Assetto Corsa Competizione, and he’s relishing the challenge. Brandon’s left-sided weakness meant that he’d been restricted to racing with an automatic gear change – too slow to be competitive online – and he was hoping that…
Over the years your support has enabled us to help some amazing people, none more so than Ceyda, whose Christmas dream a few years ago was to play Disney Infinity. Ceyda has cerebral palsy and struggles to use any games controllers: her reflexes are slow, the buttons are too small for her and she has…
Look at Wilson’s fantastic smile! THIS is the kind of life-changing difference that you can make on Friday 6 October, by buying amazing games from our One Special Day partners. They’ll donate some or all of the income to help us level the playing field for disabled gamers around the world. The money raised from…
