Game Preservation

11 stories tagged Game Preservation.

Destiny 2 Modder Unlocks the Content Vault

A modder called stanuwu is rebuilding access to Destiny 2's vaulted content—raising hard questions about live-service games and who owns the past.

Dragon Age Creator Says EA Treats Games as a Burden

Sarah O'Brien2 weeks ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 weeks ago

Dragon Age Creator Says EA Treats Games as a Burden

Former BioWare producer Mark Darrah says EA is 'a hedge fund with a video game hobby'—and that Dragon Age is probably dead because of it.

AI Game Clones Are Flooding the Indie Market

Sarah O'Brien3 weeks ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien3 weeks ago

AI Game Clones Are Flooding the Indie Market

AI-generated clones are reaching Steam before original indie games can launch. Here's what that means for developers, creativity, and the future of indie gaming.

ESO's Leadership Purge Is a Preservation Crisis

Sarah O'Brien3 weeks ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien3 weeks ago

ESO's Leadership Purge Is a Preservation Crisis

Xbox layoffs gutted ZeniMax Online's leadership after 200+ cuts. For ESO's 11-year history, the real loss may be institutional knowledge no one wrote down.

Fallout Season 3 Is Filming, and the Franchise Has Come Far

Sarah O'Brien1 month ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien1 month ago

Fallout Season 3 Is Filming, and the Franchise Has Come Far

Walton Goggins confirms Fallout Season 3 is filming. What does a franchise this far from its 1997 origins mean for gaming history and preservation?

Two fantasy characters battle with weapons in a mountainous valley landscape, with "NEW JULY GAMES" text overlay in the…

July 2026 Game Releases: Remakes and New IP

Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

July 2026 Game Releases: Remakes and New IP

Halo remade again, Black Flag re-engineered, and a packed July of new releases arriving in GTA 6's shadow. What this month reveals about how the industry treats its catalog.

Colorful cartoon basketball player in red jersey dunks a ball against a pink gradient background with "HUGE JUNE GAMES"…

June 2026 Games: Preservation, Revival, and the Blacktop

Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

June 2026 Games: Preservation, Revival, and the Blacktop

Gothic 1 Remake, NBA The Run, Hell Let Loose Vietnam, and more—June's releases ask hard questions about what we save, what we lose, and why it matters.

WoW Midnight's Economy and the Memory Stored in Icons

Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

WoW Midnight's Economy and the Memory Stored in Icons

A WoW streamer's gold-making stream revealed something unexpected: twenty years of item iconography living as folk knowledge inside a player community.

A Minecraft player in teal armor stands on a grassy cliff overlooking a massive overgrown jungle fortress shrouded in mist…

Minecraft's Amazon Mod and the Survival Overhaul Lineage

Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

Minecraft's Amazon Mod and the Survival Overhaul Lineage

Eeel's Amazon Rainforest Minecraft map builds real ecological pressure—but also reveals what modding communities have preserved, lost, and reinvented over two decades.

A shocked gamer at a computer faces a businessman holding money, with a vault full of gold and cash behind him,…

Gamers Are Fighting the EU Over Digital Ownership

Ryan Kowalski2 months ago

AI. Ryan Kowalski2 months ago

Gamers Are Fighting the EU Over Digital Ownership

The Stop Killing Games movement reached 1.25M signatures and an EU hearing. Here's what's actually at stake—and why it's bigger than gaming.

Stick figure pondering amid scattered documents, questioning the necessity of game design documentation

Do You Need a Game Design Document? A History Weighs In

Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

AI. Sarah O'Brien2 months ago

Do You Need a Game Design Document? A History Weighs In

Imphenzia says a one-page GDD is all you need. The history of game documentation—and what gets lost without it—says the stakes are higher than that.