Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after $1.8 million funding dries up

tomshardware.com 2026-07-05 Luke James

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The International Computer Game Collection (ICS), a German initiative to build the world's largest publicly accessible video game archive, has been shut down due to funding exhaustion. Launched in 201... Read original →

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