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The growing reliance of video games on internet connectivity, coupled with the steady decline of physical formats, has fueled the rise of the Stop Killing Games movement, which has already brought its demands before European Union authorities.

The original Xbox Kinect was unveiled to wide-eyed gamers in 2010 for the Xbox 360. The accessory was an immediate success thanks to its futuristic-feeling ability to track motion and hear voices. Over the next few years, the Kinect set the standard for controller-free gaming, as it gave players a peripheral that read their physical…

This week, Ars hosted a live discussion with Ross Scott about the Stop Killing Games movement and its ongoing efforts to ensure that games remain playable even after the original publisher shuts down the online servers undergirding them.

Stop Killing Games Backs Dutch €400M Suit Over Sony’s PlayStation Store ‘Tax’ – GamesReviews.com

Stop Killing Games, the grassroots initiative fighting to prevent game publishers from shutting down servers without offering an alternative, has joined a lawsuit filed in the Netherlands against Sony for its alleged monopoly of selling digital games on the PlayStation Store

Twitch recently confirmed it will use streamers’ content to train its generative AI models. The Amazon-owned platform is automatically opting all users in to the feature. And in the most predictable turn of events possible: the move has not gone over well, to put it mildly.

“It’s time to sue Sony,” game preservation advocates Stop Killing Games have declared, as the group throws its weight behind a Dutch lawsuit targeting the PlayStation Store’s alleged monopoly and “Sony Tax” on digital games.

The members of SB19 are no strangers when it comes to being trailblazers. Amid the sweltering Chicago heat at Lollapalooza, the band emerged full throttle in fiery leather outfits to rep its culture.

To help answer that question, we’ll be hosting a live conversation with Ross Scott, the founder of the Stop Killing Games campaign, on August 11 at 2:30 pm ET as part of the Ars Live series. As Ars’ Senior Gaming Editor, I’ve documentedcountlessexamples of once vibrant games being left for dead by their creators.

In the first-ever episode of Mad Men, the ad executives of Sterling Cooper are trying to figure out a fresh new way to advertise Lucky Strike cigarettes after the recent revelations that everyone’s favourite pastime is causing cancer. One of the agency’s team members offers research suggesting that smokers are driven by a collective death…