video game preservation

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Xbox’s DRM Dilemma: Why an ‘Unacceptable’ Outage Locked Out Disc Owners

When the servers go down, physical games should still work—but that wasn't the case during a recent Xbox Live outage. Microsoft's engineering leadership is now calling the situation unacceptable and p...

Jul 30, 2026 4 min read

Technology

Digital Dust: The Global Movement Fighting to Stop Publishers from ‘Killing’ Games

When a game server goes dark, your $70 purchase often vanishes into thin air. A growing coalition of players is now launching a legal and political offensive to force the industry to leave games in a...

Jun 7, 2026 4 min read