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A study from the Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network concluded that nine out of 10 classic games are actually unavailable to play anywhere. Researchers found that this has occurred as a secondary impact of digital game distribution becoming the preferred route for releasing games. As a result, the “classic” games in this study are games released prior to 2010 which was denoted to be the year when digital game distribution “started to take off”. The list of 1,500 games was randomly…

From fixing up old defunct Sega Saturns to dropping hundreds of dollars on eBay for rare titles like GameCube’s Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem, retro game enthusiasts already know the struggle of enjoying early games. For video game historians, the situation is even worse. There are several nationally recognized and lauded services for watching thousands of classic films, but a new study shows that for the vast majority of gaming history from the 1970s onward, nine in 10 games remain unavailable for customers, and by…

European football teams, media like Le Monde and Agence France-Presse and other organizations on the continent have found a way to get Meta Platforms Inc.'s new Threads app, even though the company hasn't launched it in the European Union.  Verified accounts for French media companies Le Figaro and Liberation were posting on the app the day it went live on Thursday as well as left wing French lawmaker Francois Ruffin, who deleted an initial post. German football club RB Leipzig and French peer Saint-Etienne also started…

Today (June 12), Reddit users will have noticed that many of the social media site’s subreddits are either missing, set to private, or in read-only mode. That’s because many subreddit moderators are participating in a site-wide blackout — here’s why, who’s taking part, and when the blackout is expected to end. Earlier in the month, Reddit announced that from July it will start charging third-party developers significant fees to access its Application Programming Interface (API) — which third-party Reddit apps, custom…

HBO content such as Game of Thrones, The Last of Us, and Euphoria will be leaving Disney+ Hotstar by the end of March 2023. Replying to a tweet, Hotstar's support team confirmed that starting March 31, HBO shows and movies will not be available to watch on the streaming platform, which has been the key destination for Indians to access the WarnerMedia content after the company discontinued HBO cable TV channels in the country in 2020. Of course, all Disney material, which includes Marvel and Star…

Twelve South Korean websites attacked by a Chinese hacking group remain unable to be accessed five days after the incident, industry sources said. The Chinese attackers, identifying themselves as Xiaoqiying, hacked into the websites of 12 academic organizations and institutions Sunday, including the Korea Research Institute for Construction Policy, the Korean Archaeological Society and the Korean Academy of Basic Medicine & Health Science.The attack took place in the middle of the four-day Lunar New Year holiday that…

NetEase has decided not to renew its contract with Activision Blizzard, meaning several titles will be unavailable to play in China from next week. World Of Warcraft, Overwatch, Hearthstone, Diablo 3, Heroes Of The Storm and the StarCraft series will become unplayable from January 23 when NetEase’s licence expires. There’s currently no word from Activision Blizzard about a new partner, or when the games will return but it has previously said talks were being held with prospective partners. NetEase has had a contract with…

Every day, millions of internet users see HTTP Error 503. So when you encounter HTTP Error 503, the website or web application you are trying to access is currently unavailable for some reason. There are numerous reasons for an HTTP Error 503, such as an error in the underlying software or hardware, a problem with your internet connection, or even malicious activity on the part of someone who owns or operates the site. The most appropriate way is to ascertain what happened and try to fix it as quickly as possible.…

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Twitter's relaunched premium service was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved. Twitter's relaunched premium service — which grants blue-check “verification” labels to anyone willing to pay $8 a month — was unavailable Friday after the social media platform was flooded by a wave of imposter accounts it itself had approved.It's the latest whiplash-inducing change to the service where uncertainty has become the norm since billionaire Elon Musk…