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Buy and play on One Special Day
One Special Day is here! With YOUR support we can continue to help bring light and laughter to the lives of disabled gamers across the globe. Choose titles from a wide range of fantastic mobile games on 6 October and an amazing Steam Sale that runs from 5-8 October and help us bring magic gaming…
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Steam Sale is now live until 8 October!
Space adventures, giant dinosaurs… Peppa Pig?! The One Special Day Steam Sale is live NOW until October 8th and features over 60 games! Stock up your Steam library today and help us level the playing field for physically disabled gamers. We’d like to say a massive thank you to all the developers and publishers who…
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Amazing artwork for our One Special Day Steam Sale
With the One Special Day Steam Sale mere days away, we’re excited to give you a sneak peek at the incredible artwork that will adorn our Steam page, inspired by the hundreds of disabled gamers SpecialEffect have worked with over the last sixteen years! This gorgeous artwork was created for SpecialEffect by Jan Swidan from…
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One week to go to One Special Day!
One week today, on Friday, 6 October, some of the biggest names from the worldwide games industry, including the likes of Xbox, Supercell and EA, are uniting behind SpecialEffect, the gamers’ charity, for their annual One Special Day flagship fundraising campaign. At the heart of the campaign is the opportunity for gamers to raise money…
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Sumo Group’s One Button Game Jam
In 2021, Sumo Group launched its One Button Game Jam to inspire its teams to get more engaged in supporting SpecialEffect, and to get everyone thinking about accessibility in game design. Business Development Manager (and SpecialEffect Ambassador) David Dino – known as just ‘Dino’ – launched the original One Button Game Jam and shares some…
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“Thank you for making it possible to game with a disability!”
Rob’s enjoying the games he loves again with the help of a chin, finger and knee-controlled gaming setup recommended by our specialist assessment team. Rob can’t use a standard controller due to his motor neurone disease, so our team worked closely with him, identifying the extent and strength of his movements so they could suggest…
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