The Battle for Digital Permanence: Inside the "Stop Killing Games" Movement and the Fight to Preserve Interactive History
Executive Overview As the video game industry marches deeper into a digital-only future, a looming existential crisis threatens the medium: the planned obsolescence of playable art. For decades, traditional media formats—books, vinyl records, and physical film reels—retained a baseline of longevity. Even as technology shifted, consumers could theoretically access these works indefinitely. Modern gaming, however,…
