HardwareFreaks - Hardware News https://hardware.nrgnews.net/ Hardware News Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:22:39 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 https://hardware.nrgnews.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/hardware-icon-512-150x150.png HardwareFreaks - Hardware News https://hardware.nrgnews.net/ 32 32 Germany’s massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world’s largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media https://hardware.nrgnews.net/germanys-massive-60000-game-preservation-project-collapses-after-e1-5-million-funding-dries-up-worlds-largest-game-archive-was-entirely-publicly-available-now-abandoned-just-as-sony-ki/ Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:22:39 +0000 http://192.168.1.15:8084/germanys-massive-60000-game-preservation-project-collapses-after-e1-5-million-funding-dries-up-worlds-largest-game-archive-was-entirely-publicly-available-now-abandoned-just-as-sony-ki/ The grand archive of video game history, once a cornerstone of cultural preservation, is facing an uncertain future. The Internationale Computerspielesammlung (ICS), a monumental German effort to collect and catalog the world’s largest publicly accessible video game collection, has been wound down following the expiration of public funding and a decision by its shareholders. This […]

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