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Stories tagged with #Game preservation.
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A Brazilian lawmaker has filed a bill inspired by Stop Killing Games that would add new consumer protections when server-dependent games are shut down. The proposal is still early, but it lays out possible duties around notice, offline access, community servers or refunds.
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Doom co-creator John Romero has shared support for id Software staff affected by Xbox layoffs and called for the studio's recent work, code, assets and stories to be preserved.
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Video Game History Foundation director Frank Cifaldi says archivists still lack a meaningful legal alternative to piracy for preserving digital-only games. His comments follow Sony's plan to end physical disc production for new PlayStation releases in 2028.
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Sony's plan to end new PlayStation disc production in 2028 could push retail game sales toward cheaper digital code cards, according to Ampere Analysis. The shift may reduce costs for publishers while raising fresh ownership concerns for players.
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Sony's private message to PlayStation partners reportedly clarifies that existing disc games can still be reordered after January 2028, even as new releases move away from discs. The company is also preparing retail digital-code options for publishers.
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Sony's Thalgau disc plant is being prepared for a major shift toward micro optics as PlayStation moves away from new game discs in 2028. The Austrian facility currently produces about 600,000 discs a day.
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GOG has used PlayStation's move away from new game discs to argue that digital gaming should not weaken player ownership or long-term access.
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Sony's plan to stop making discs for new PlayStation games in 2028 is drawing a different kind of backlash from developers who saw boxed releases as a creative milestone, not just a retail format.
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A Change.org petition asking Sony to keep making physical PlayStation games has passed 13,000 signatures. The campaign follows Sony's announcement that new PlayStation games will move to digital-only formats from January 2028.
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A playable prototype of Monster Demolition has been recovered from a haul of Atari Lynx EPROMs. The cancelled project was an early take on what later became the handheld's Rampage port.
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Dungeons of Despair, a tiny-run Wizardry beta sold at Boston Apple Fest in 1981, may be lost forever. The test version predates the final Apple II release and was used to gather early player feedback.
