The British Library, the world's largest in terms of total number of items, is interested in archiving video games.
"The games publishing industry recognises the value in preserving their computer games, and many in the industry that I've talked to could relay horror stories about old material disappearing or being left to gradually decay in a box under someone's desk." said Paul Wheatley, a specialist in digital preservation at the British Library.
"At the very least I would like the British Library to provide support to the National Videogame Archive based on this digital preservation expertise and I'm hoping we can collaborate further," he added, according to Edge.
The first European museum entirely dedicated to the medium of video games will be unveiled at the Italian Videogame Developer Conference in December.
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