Interview: UK National Video Game Archive’s Newman On Preserving The Past

[This interview with the nice UK Video Game Archive folks was conducted by us just before they went ‘public’ at GameCity, and it’s good to see more people thinking about how to archive games as an artform - hurrah.]
“Video games are living, breathing things with cultural lives and histories,” says Dr. James Newman of the UK’s recently created UK National Video Game Archive.
The newly launched Archive is a partnership between the National Media Museum and Nottingham Trent University’s Centre for Contemporary Play. Gamasutra caught up with Newman, a key figure behind the venture, to discuss its plans and intent.
Rather than being a straightforward game collection, Newman stresses that the Archive’s goal is to chronicle game history and game culture broadly speaking — which extends beyond game design itself and out into the art that surrounds gaming, including game-inspired media and fan-created works.
Says Newman, “To make sure that we can […]

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