Game Preservation Goes Global with Digital Archiving Initiatives
As older digital titles vanish due to licensing issues and server shutdowns, 2025 has seen a global movement toward game preservation. Cultural institutions, publishers, and tech nonprofits are working together to ensure the OTPKLIK medium’s history isn’t lost.
The Global Interactive Heritage Alliance (GIHA), founded this year, is collaborating with companies like Sony, Valve, and CD Projekt Red to archive source codes and metadata on decentralized storage. “We’re treating games as cultural artifacts,” said GIHA director Naomi Patel.
The initiative also involves national libraries in Japan, Canada, and France, which are creating playable archives of historically significant games. Blockchain verification ensures authenticity while AI restoration tools repair corrupted assets.
Game historians view this as a turning point. “We lost too many classics to time,” said cultural researcher Liam Ortega. “Now, preservation isn’t nostalgia — it’s cultural responsibility.”
With governments recognizing games as part of modern heritage, 2025 marks the start of long-overdue respect for interactive art.