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Pie chart: Around 33% of US video game players are believed to be disabled
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CVGA Residency – Power to the Disabled Player
CVGA student resident Joseph Heger makes a plea for better integration of adaptive technology and options in major game releases.
A Game Boy Color and original Game Boy dominated the center of the photo, with a box for Frogger for Game Boy Color on the left and an array of Game Boy cartridges in cases across the top.
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CVGA Residency – Cartridge Game Preservation
CVGA student resident Kiki Verdun reflects on her experiences this summer around the digital archiving of cartridge-based games.
A collection of adaptive gaming tech in the CVGA
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CVGA Residency - Adaptive Gaming
CVGA student resident Shiryn Anissa Noor Affendi reflects on her experiences investigating adaptive and accessible gaming technology.
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Game Donations
We are no longer able to accept unsolicited game donations in the CVGA. Prior to sending or bringing us games please contact us first at video.games@umich.edu with an itemized list of the games and equipment that you would like to donate, so that we can check against our collection records to see what we need.
Close-up view of an Odyssey 2 Gaming system
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  • David S Carter
Announcing: CVGA Residency Program (Spring/Summer 2023)
The University of Michigan Library's Computer & Video Game Archive (CVGA) is seeking to fill up to three positions for CVGA Special Projects Residency in the areas of Game Preservation and Accessible/Adaptive Gaming for the Spring/Summer 2023 (May - August 2023).
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The CVGA is Moving!
The CVGA will be moving to the Shapiro library over this summer. Our last date of operation in the Duderstadt will be this coming Friday (May 27), after which we will close to begin the process of moving to our new location on the 4th floor of Shapiro.
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Game Research Methods book
The new book Game Research Methods is available for free download under a creative commons license and features a chapter written by a pair of U-M grad students.
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MusPerf 300: Video Game Music
The course Music Performance 300: Video Game Music, returns as an option for undergraduate non-music majors this fall.
Geometry Wars: Touch for iPad screen shot
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New iPad Games
57 new games have been added to the CVGA's iPad.
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CVGA Disassembled
Inside an Intellivision game consoleGet a real inside look at the gaming systems housed in the Computer & Video Game Archive in "CVGA Disassembled," a new online exhibit created to help celebrate the CVGA's 5th Anniversary this week.We've opened up some of our favorite game consoles of yesteryear to show off the guts and inside circuitry, as well as loving shots of the exteriors. In addition, visitors to the exhibit will learn about the history of these gaming systems as they step through the different generations of video games.The exhibit is curated by CVGA manager Val Waldron, and was created with the assistance of current and former Learning & Teaching University Library Associates Alex Purcell, Adam Jazairi, and Maria Seiferle-Valencia."CVGA Disassembled" can be viewed online as part of the MLibrary Online Exhibits at http://www.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/cvga-disassembled