Germany’s Largest Video Game Preservation Effort To End, Leaving Its Digital Archive In Peril

The decision to close came due to a “lack of necessary public support”.

Germany’s largest video game archive, the Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), is set to close, just months after its funding from the Berlin Senate and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media expired in April (as reported by gameswirtschaft, thanks, notebookcheck for the spot).

The ICS began as a project in 2019, as a joint effort between “the Computer Games Museum Berlin, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation (USK), the Computer Games Collections of the Centre for Computer Games Research at the University of Potsdam (DIGAREC), the Game Association, and the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur.”

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The decision to close came due to a “lack of necessary public support”.

Germany’s largest video game archive, the Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), is set to close, just months after its funding from the Berlin Senate and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media expired in April (as reported by gameswirtschaft, thanks, notebookcheck for the spot).

The ICS began as a project in 2019, as a joint effort between “the Computer Games Museum Berlin, the Entertainment Software Self-Regulation (USK), the Computer Games Collections of the Centre for Computer Games Research at the University of Potsdam (DIGAREC), the Game Association, and the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur.”

Read the full article on timeextension.com

 

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