Color blindness

Square Enix There’s a new multiplayer game in Town: Foamstars. Square Enix’s latest is a riff on Splatoon that trades in ink for suds. I went into it expecting a quirky little arena shooter that would give me a weekend or two of fun before running out of steam as its live-service model began to rear its head. What I wasn’t expecting was a mountain of legibility problems that made it hard for me to tell what I was doing. The basic idea of Foamstars was always centered around blasting both the arena and opponents with…

The developers of Tekken 8 are boosting the upcoming game's accessibility with color blind options, but some experts and users say some of the settings may cause more harm than good. One filter in particular that displays horizontal and vertical black and white lines appears to be causing headaches and vertigo, and may even "hospitalize players (or worse), in the same way as the infamous Pokémon episode," said gaming accessibility specialist Ian Hamilton in a post on X. (We have embedded a still from the game at the…

Joe Maring / Digital Trends Over the past few weeks, Google has been quietly rolling out a fresh coat of paint for its popular Google Maps app — and it’s been creating havoc over the holiday travel season. While some people may understandably be frustrated at any changes made to such an established and widely used app, there seems to be more to this than just people being put off by unfamiliar colors. The many folks taking to social media to voice their displeasure with the redesign have been joined by professional…

Magic mushrooms might have helped alleviate color blindness in at least one case. In a paper this week, doctors describe a man who experienced modest, long-lasting improvements in his red-green color vision after a single dose of psilocybin-containing mushrooms. The report is only an anecdote at this point but should merit further research, the authors say.Why Hollywood Writers Are Striking Over AI | Future TechPsilocybin is the primary active ingredient in psychedelic mushrooms. It and other psychedelic drugs have…