‘FC26’ Amongst Game Awards Finalists for Innovation in Accessibility category

In other accessibility-and-awards news, the Game Awards have announced the nominees for this year’s “Innovation in Accessibility” category. As a diehard sports fan, the title that caught my attention was EA Sports’ FC26. The game is on virtually every possible platform—PlayStation, Xbox, Windows—and cloud-based like Amazon’s Luna.

Back in late July, I wrote about FC26 including several new accessibility features for players with disabilities. Perhaps most impressively is the game’s high-contrast mode, which the development team (EA Canada) touted as “one of the first-ever sports titles” to have such functionality. In addition, FC26 has a setup screen devoted to accessibility upon first boot, akin to the screens Apple shows users during the device setup process.

Besides FC26, the other titles up for Innovation in Accessibility are Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Shadows, Rebellion’s Atomfall, id Software and Bethesda Softworks’ Doom: The Dark Ages, and Compulsion Games and Xbox Game Studios’ South of Midnight.

The 2025 Game Awards are scheduled for December 11 at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater.