Myrient, one of the most impressive gaming archives available for PC players, has announced that it will be shutting down. The nonprofit website hosts over 390 TBs of video game files, making it one of the internet's largest sources of archived gaming data available to both industry historians and gamers on PC with legally owned copies of its games.
In the wake of the industry shifting largely toward digital downloads and subscription services, gamers have long debated the best methods of video game preservation. As digital storefronts become more stacked with new releases, distributors reserve the right to remove older titles from availability at any time. Like most fields rooted in technology, the game industry expands rapidly, and older titles are often left behind when they become unavailable on modern platforms. While remasters, remakes, and retro collections are valuable ways to keep these titles available to new or returning players, online archives play a major role in ensuring some of gaming's rarest and most obscure works are not abandoned or forgotten as other games become available to purchase.
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