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Worlds of Light, Fading. Dead Games and End-of-Life Software as Ruins of Digital Interactive Entertainment

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Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media

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Abstract

Games and Culture, Volume 21, Issue 6, Page 1490-1506, September 2026.
This paper explores the concept of ruins in interactive entertainment, focusing on games that become ruins due to abandonment, technological decay, or other processes unique to digital media. A comparative analysis of physical and digital ruins, their ...