The Digital Dark Age of Interactive Media: Can the "Stop Killing Games" Movement Save Our Virtual Heritage?
Executive Overview In the modern digital landscape, the phrase "purchasing a video game" has undergone a profound and deeply unsettling semantic shift. Historically, buying a cartridge, disc, or even a digital file conferred a sense of permanence—an implicit contract that the purchaser owned a playable piece of software that could be enjoyed indefinitely. Today, however,…