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Seth Larson
@sethmlarson.dev

I’m worried about gaming’s all-digital future. Not only from the ownership and preservation angle, but also creative freedom of the medium. What if every gaming platform is subject to the same constraints that media streaming services have? #gaming #sonic #pikmin sethmlarson.dev/gaming-all-d...

sethmlarson.devGaming’s all‑digital future doesn’t include “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” and “Pikmin 2”Sony announced that all games from 2028 and onwards would be digital-only. It seems likely that Xbox will follow and that Nintendo will continue making “physical” releases for first-party games dur...

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QUAX World
@quaxworld.art

When platform rules become part of a game’s runtime, preservation cannot stop at keeping the binary. It must also recover the permissions, servers and modification rights that let the work be played—and changed.