New proposed bill would make video games something you own, not rent
Stop Killing Games lost in Brussels and Sacramento. A federal bill picks up where they left off
Game preservation articles
GOG's latest preservation push lets fans print box replicas for your digital games
Bringing a new physical layer to the store's retro gaming offering
Xbox unveils disc-to-digital feature designed to digitize existing physical games
Leverage the benefits of digital
Quake turns 30, and it just got two surprise expansions in one week
"Dawn of the Machine" adds 19 new maps to the original, and a lost Quake 4 expansion from a secondhand PC
Video Game History Foundation founder says piracy remains the only viable game preservation method
The organization representing game publishers helped kill a preservation bill. Now it's being blamed for pushing archivists toward piracy
390TB game archive Myrient to shut down as storage costs surge
The site's operator is losing about $6,000 each month
GOG co-founder buys retro gaming storefront from CD Projekt Red
Nothing changes for users, but questions about long-term profitability linger
GOG opens up about the uphill battle of fighting DRM and preserving classic PC games
Maciej Gołębiewski tells weird stories about the popular PC game store
Every iPod clickwheel game has been saved from digital oblivion, thanks to a dedicated preservation project
All available on the Internet Archive
Over a million gamers reclaimed censored titles in GOG's 48-hour push
Recap: GOG recently launched Freedomtobuy.games, a new initiative designed to fight censorship attempts against NSFW-themed games. For 48 hours, the CD Projekt subsidiary game offered users the ability to reclaim 13 games at risk of disappearing – for free. The giveaway has now ended, and downloads were so massive that the company struggled to maintain platform stability.
Ubisoft CEO responds to Stop Killing Games petition, says "Nothing is eternal"
Are purchased games products or services?
GOG adds official mod support, offering one-click installs for select games
"Mods aren't just fan content, they're part of how games survive"
Original Fallout source code survived thanks to "rogue" Interplay co-founder
Original team was told to destroy all records, but thankfully overlooked Mac porting team
Original Fallout creator was ordered to destroy source code, then Interplay lost its official archive
Archives should always have redundancies
Video Game History Foundation releases trove of game dev documents, magazines, and more
Searchable archived documents and never-before-seen development materials available for free
Study finds cracking protections in 712 vintage games took 628 years
Research highlights challenges of circumventing obsolete game security
Blizzard delists Warcraft RTS games, but GOG promises owners to preserve their purchases
Customers can still buy the bundle until December 13
US Copyright Office denies DMCA exemption, deals blow to video game preservation efforts
Preservationists can try again in 2027 when the DMCA is up for review
GOG games can be inherited upon death, but you'll need a court order
Digital ownership remains a largely unregulated matter, even for DRM-free products
Microsoft is thinking about Xbox game preservation, leaked emails show
New Xbox boss is working to retain past and current Xbox games for future players