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
Planned obsolescence articles
The video game industry just told lawmakers Minecraft and Call of Duty private servers are illegal piracy
A California Act which would have required refunds or offline modes for shuttered games, fell three votes short in the state Senate
Stop Killing Games lost its biggest battle despite 1.3 million signatures, but the fight isn't over
The EU rejected the petition to stop publishers from bricking games – after meeting with Ubisoft
The fight to stop publishers from bricking your games and shutting down servers just got a powerful new enemy
Stop Killing Games is winning hearts in Europe – and enemies in Washington
ChromeOS Flex gets a $3 USB installer to revive aging Windows PCs
Google is targeting older hardware that can't upgrade to Windows 11
Adobe tries to kill Animate, then reverses course after industry backlash
This is your daily reminder that "cloud" means someone else's computer...
Bose is ending SoundTouch's cloud features, but not entirely killing the speakers
Bluetooth, AirPlay, and Spotify Connect will keep working without the cloud
Hackers are saving Google's abandoned Nest thermostats with open-source firmware
"No Longer Evil" project gives older Nest devices a second life
Google pulls the plug on first and second gen Nest Thermostats
Affected devices have been unpaired and removed from the Nest app
While Microsoft retires Windows 10, optical drives are selling like hot cakes in Japan for some reason
Japanese PC users still have a thing for optical media and offline storage
Ubisoft CEO responds to Stop Killing Games petition, says "Nothing is eternal"
Are purchased games products or services?
Belkin ends support for Wemo devices, many will become e-waste come January
Only HomeKit-compatible plugs and light switches will continue functioning
Game publishers push back as "Stop Killing Games" campaign surges past 1 million signatures
Meanwhile, many EULAs order players to destroy copies of decommissioned games
Nvidia to drop driver support for Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs
Legendary GPU architectures that once ruled PC gaming
Most online games are now dead, Stop Killing Games proponents say
Planned obsolescence is becoming a successful business model for publishers
The "End of 10" project wants to save aging PCs with Linux instead of Windows 11
As Windows 10 support ends, 240 million PCs face obsolescence
Apple's $500 million batterygate settlement payouts will soon reach owners
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Check out some of the most popular tech myths people still believe
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Italian watchdog hits Apple, Samsung with fines over planned obsolescence
A ding to public perception
Samsung denies Italian watchdog's claims that it throttles older phones
Samsung says it doesn't practice planned obsolescence