Game Archive established In U.K.
October 7th, 2008Chronicling the highs and lows of the video gaming industry, a new enterprise will
be an active register of the gaming industry setting up at GameCity 3.
Nottingham Trent University and the National Media Museum
in Bradford has just announced the kickoff official National Videogame
Archive in the U.K. This file will acknowledge the social touch of
games, since the classics of the 1970s to the present. The U.K.’s
National Videogame Archive will be preserved at the National Media
Museum and supervised in collaboration with Nottingham Trent
University’s Centre for Contemporary Play.
The National Videogame Archive is a chief resource for upholding elements
of our national cultural inheritance. We don’t just want to produce a
virtual museum full of code or screenshots that you could see on net.
The archive will really come to grips with what is a very constructive,
social and profitable culture,. It will not only be an essential
scholarly resource to support maturing disciplines in videogame studies
but will also be something that the general public can fully occupy
with.
The archive will also have registers of magazine surveys,
artwork, and ad campaign in order to preserve gaming’s unequalled
culture. The U.K.’s National Videogame Archive will launch at GameCity
3 festival in Nottingham.