Preservation & Heritage
5 articles
Video game preservation in France: legal deposit, a model to extend
Since François Ier, France has preserved the works published on its soil. Legal deposit, entrusted to the BnF, includes video games, including those in digital form. A little-known model that would deserve to be generalised at the European scale.
Preservation: is the industry burning its own heritage?
According to the Video Game History Foundation, 87% of games released before 2010 are no longer commercially available. More than 60 years of heritage are going up in smoke, for lack of conservation efforts. The figures and the stakes.
Shawn Layden (ex-PlayStation): "Failing to preserve games is criminal"
The former head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios warns of two troubling trends: consolidation that smothers creativity, and the industry's neglect of its own heritage. Strong words from an insider.
Preserving digital games: a challenge for rights and heritage
When a game depends on nothing but a server, it can disappear overnight. The shift to all-digital threatens both players' rights and the memory of an entire swathe of culture. An overview.
Retrogaming: a passion across the ages
Nostalgia, collecting, living preservation: retrogaming is far more than a return to the games of yesteryear. It is a way of keeping alive a culture that the industry itself too often lets disappear.