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SKG plans coming to fruition / Ubisoft sued by consumer watchdog
Big Stop Killing Games news! Ubisoft is getting sued by heavyweight consumer protection group UFC-Que Choisir in France! This is EXACTLY the kind of action we’ve been working towards to eventually stop publishers from destroying customer copies of video games. Also, I’m going to Parliament!
Giant Stop Killing Games Updates 2026
Lots of news on Stop Killing Games! We’ll be talking to the EU Commission soon, we’re winning EU Parliament, creating an NGO, having a major legal study, we’re doing everything to stop publishers from destroying video games!
Stop Killing Games will talk to the EU Commission
The organizers for the European Citizens’ Initiative will be meeting with the EU Commission on February 23rd. I’ll be there as well!
Stop Killing Games: Wrap up
A wrap up of the Stop Killing Games campaign! This is kind of an alternate ending from where we were about a month ago. This goes over the campaign, how I think we’ve changed the timeline, and some misc. announcements.
Stop Killing Games: New option available to get law passed!
Stop Killing Games has a new option to get legal protections from publishers destroying games! There is an opening to be a potential rider on the Digital Fairness Act. Europeans (minus the UK, sorry) can leave comments on the EU’s feedback page to try to make this happen!
Link to give feedb…
Stop Killing Games FAQ & Guide for Developers
This is a FAQ + guide about the Stop Killing Games movement, this time aimed at developers, written by developers, including the creator of an MMO live service game! Some concerns have been brought up on the campaign as to HOW games could start having end of life plans and this presentation covers m…
Dead Game News: UK Petition Non-answer
The UK Government has responded and it’s not clear they even read the petition + they copied / pasted an answer already rejected by the Petitions Committee. Sign the petition here if you’re a UK citizen or resident to bypass the obstruction and take it straight to Parliament:
https://petition.…
Dead Game News: Ubisoft is getting sued over The Crew
Ubisoft is getting sued in a class action lawsuit over “The Crew” in California. I’m named in the court papers!
DEAD GAME NEWS: CALIFORNIA HALFWAY TRIES TO LABEL VIDEO GAMES
Here’s some news on the new California bill to attempt to label lack of ownership of digital media (including video games) that’s kind of a mess, also some more on a small victory of the stop killing games campaign in the later half.
DEAD GAME NEWS: RESPONSE FROM THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
Here is some news going over responses from the EU Commission on the issue of destroying games from members of European Parliament. There are also some updates on the campaign towards the end.
DEAD GAME NEWS: UK GOVERNMENT RESPONSE
We’ve received an official response from UK government on the issue of videogame destruction by publishers. This goes over all of it, some of it is quite helpful! This also includes some updates on Australia, Canada and Brazil
DEAD GAME NEWS: EARLY PLANS TO STOP COMPANIES KILLING GAMES
Big update on plans to stop companies from killing games! This one is drier and more info heavy, normal videos still coming!
DEAD GAME NEWS: THE CREW
Dead Game News! This isn’t a typical one and involves more audience participation than usual.
Dead Game News: Stadia is shutting down
Dead Game News! This better be the last one for a while, I’m going back to the real videos. Contains legendary quotes.
Dead Game News: Atlus sues fans for preserving their game
New Dead Game News, has a bit of a twist at the end. Will resume the normal videos before long. I’m not counting DGN against my countdown for a big push on the movie since this was unplanned and only took a couple days.
Dead Game News: Ubisoft / Game Journalism Zeitgeist or Something
Here’s a last minute Dead Game News episode! This was probably a mistake, but I’m satisfied with how it came out. This episode may have more questions than news.
Dead Game News: Lawsuit against Apple
I wasn’t planning on making this, but I couldn’t help myself, since this news was super relevant to my crusade to stop games from being destroyed. It’s not as straightforwards as you might think! Real videos still coming!
Dead Game News: Godfall lies, PC Gamer repeats it
New Dead Game News! I was not planning on making this at all! This news emerged yesterday and bugged me so much I decided to slap together a video on it as soon as I could. Hopefully more like this are not needed! Freeman’s Mind still coming and work will be resuming on Halloween stuff!
Dead Game News: France vs. Valve + maybe the rest of the world
Dead Game News! I wasn’t even sure about making more of these, but this news was so big and there was so much to talk about here, I felt like I had to. I plan to make a followup video to the “Games as a service is fraud” video also, which this overlaps a bit with, but there was so much here I …
Dead Game News: Wildstar, Fallout 76, Just Survive
Dead Game News again! This was an episode I was undecided if I was going to make it or not, since it wasn’t too critical, but finally ended up making it. This one rounds out the previous one more than anything else and doesn’t have anything groundbreaking in it, but had some topics I wanted to e…
Dead Game News: Lawbreakers, Streaming, Steam
New Dead Games News episode! I realize only a minority of fans watch this, but this is the one gaming issue I just can’t ignore, so I’m trying to keep the torch lit on this until I can take some actual action against it. This episode is in the new format, where I only cover a couple topics, but …
Dead Game News Returns!
Dead Game News returns! This is the new format I mentioned in the previous episode. While it’s less fact-dense than before, I think overall people will find this much more watchable than the old format; much more effort was put into it writing and production-wise. This is another case where even i…
Dead Game News Is Mutating!
Dead Game News is mutating! This episode is only news about Dead Game News and my future plans for dead games in general. This is also the LAST episode on the DGN channel! There will still be future Dead Game News episode, but things are changing. Try to watch this before February 20th if you’re i…
Dead Game News: Asheron’s Call, Ghost In The Shell, Hawken
Dead Game News is not dead! Bunch more games shut down that should have been covered earlier, but nobody else seems to be doing this job, so you’re stuck with me. Here it is, likely another episode coming for December. Next up should be Freeman’s Mind.
Dead Game News: Mighty Quest For Epic Loot
Well I was hoping to have a new Game Dungeon out today, but since that’s not going to happen (it’ll be a few more days), here’s a much-delayed Dead Game News episode. This is essentially 3 months’ worth of news, so I ended up trimming it down a bit. In the future, I may try to get some editi…
