Thank you! Since launching our Behind the Screens survey, we’ve been very pleased with the positive response from across the games industry. A huge thank you to everyone who has already taken the time to complete it and share their knowledge with us. Take part: forms.gle/bE8YrvrBaMnB...

Behind the Screens: UK Videogame Preservation Survey

The Behind the Screens survey intends to establish a general picture of what videogame related collections already exist in the UK, and to assess levels of awareness towards videogame preservation and...

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The NVM team will also be sharing their experiences of building the Behind the Screens Survey, the UK's first nationwide survey of videogame collections, which was launched last week

Representatives from the VHS, including NVM’s @johnoshea.bsky.social and @annwain.bsky.social will be talking at the Playable Heritage conference in Edinburgh today! They’ll be joining Brian Baglow to discuss how to collect, preserve, and share videogame heritage. 🔗 my.nms.ac.uk/23690/23691

We’ve launched the UK’s first nationwide survey of videogame-related collections, and we want to hear from developers, publishers, studios, collectors and industry professionals. Help us preserve the stories, artefacts and archives of our games industry. Take part: forms.gle/z9a1qhVopYMT...

The National Videogame Museum is the home of the Videogame Heritage Society, a Subject Specialist Network for videogame preservation. We host videogame heritage and preservation webinars 👾 you can find out more on the VHS website: vhs.thenvm.org

“The 90s was phenomenal for videogames, and I think it’s having a sort of coming-of-age moment in terms of its vintage” We speak to The Times about the rise in popularity of 80s and 90s videogames, and the Museum’s newest exhibition ‘Together We Play'. www.thetimes.com/culture/gami...

Nostalgia for Eighties and Nineties video games gives them extra life

A Sheffield museum recreates gaming’s formative decades complete with retro computers and teenage bedrooms with period posters — but not the smelly socks

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As it is my birthday, I decided to upload the first version of the NVM UK island. The museum area is pretty well complete, although not a 1 to 1 recreation (some things are hard to replicate!). Dream address is DA-7919-4041-2531. Please do tag me and/or @nvmuk.bsky.social if you visit!

We have the honour of hosting the Videogame Heritage Society, and this year the VHS is running a series of webinars. The next free webinar is on 3rd Sept, 11am Yorkshire Games Festival, A Decade On book your free ticket - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/vhs-webina...

VHS Webinar: Yorkshire Games Festival: A Decade On

Nathan Buckley from the National Science and Media Museum speaks about the Yorkshire Games Festival as it enters its 11th year.

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example of why digital preservation as a primarily social issue rather than a technical one. I wish discourse about this focused on that piece, the failures of policy and labor outsourcing and technofeudalism. Preservation is people, it is not a hard drive or a NAS or [insert obvious solution here]

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> This wouldn't have been an issue if the organization bought a $1,000 NAS and populated it with a few hard drives. paging @ehkopin.bsky.social for the bad preservation take alert

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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Tomb Raider And Super Mario Come To The National Videogame Museum's 'Together We Play' Exhibition. (Image: @Mario_Museum) (Repost)

Tomb Raider And Super Mario Come To The National Videogame Museum's 'Together We Play' Exhibition

"Video games are now a huge global industry"

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I'll keep banging the drum for preserving contemporary video game play experiences, especially approaches that don't require technical or even digital methods!

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

Love seeing these unauthorised early versions of the Mario universe!

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A set of 7 vintage Nintendo vinyl figures from Japan, released in 1985. Thought to be unlicensed. Check out Mario and the OG Bowser! Believe it or not, these sold for 142,000 yen today, that’s $893USD. 🤯

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

Join me LIVE at 9:30am as I look for new indie games to play, and I'd be very interested to hear if you have a game yourself. No I don't want a freebie or anything.

New FUNDED PhD opportunity with me, @doktornick.bsky.social, and @bomlab.bsky.social on 'Playing in Public: Game-Based Interventions for Sustainability, Community and Environmental Engagement' as part of the CreaTech Frontiers CDA scheme! Deadline: 10 April Details: www.bcu.ac.uk/research/our...

happy 30th pokemon

Lovely article by Gamesmaster legend Dominik Diamond celebrating intergenerational play and the social space games can create: www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j...

There’s a reason that Wii Bowling remains my mum’s favourite game | Dominik Diamond

At a family gathering over Christmas, I took on my 76-year-old mother once again at virtual bowling. Could I finally best her?

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Where’s the white ball going?

Quite a cool AI powered thing: #AntiRender “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com #architecture

AntiRender - Reality Hits Different

Transform idealized architectural renders into what they'll actually look like. No sunshine. No happy families. Just cold, honest reality.

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“The Professional Grief of the Creative Industries” A Powerful, must-read, article from Alan Warburton railing against “the very messy, human impacts of tech disruption in the creative industries” #AI #ImageEmpire www.linkedin.com/posts/consid...

Exciting to see news about new digital artwork #ImageEmpire emerging on Linked In. The project by Alan Warburton will examine how AI is changing the way media is created and consumed - and the impacts this may have in the world of work. www.linkedin.com/posts/bgi-na...

In Spring 2026, the National Videogame Museum is delighted to launch Image Empire, a new digital artwork by Dr. Alan Warburton. Image Empire has been developed in collaboration with curator Hannah… ...

In Spring 2026, the National Videogame Museum is delighted to launch Image Empire, a new digital artwork by Dr. Alan Warburton. Image Empire has been developed in collaboration with curator Hannah R...

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Here's @marioprime.bsky.social on revisiting Animal Crossing after years away: "To return now is to open up a digital time capsule and unpack the emotional baggage inside."

Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a time capsule full of 2020 anxiety

Get ready to unpack some baggage

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Still time to apply! Exhibit & Events Technician vacancy @nvmuk.bsky.social closes for applications 20 Jan 10am ⏰

The National Videogame Museum@nvmuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Join Our Team We’re looking for an Exhibit and Events Technician to support the technical delivery and maintenance of exhibits and events, helping to bring videogame stories to life for visitors of all ages. thenvm.org/about/work-w... Closing Date: Tues 20 Jan 2026 – 10:00am

just encountered the first edition of #GAMEPOEMS, a free online zine of open-access playable poetic experiences and commentary - beautiful work www.gamepoems.com/issue01/

Game Poems #1

An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

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Friends in NYC - nice R&D fellowship opportunity @momanyc.bsky.social working with @paolaantonelli.bsky.social (closes 18 Jan) recruiting.ultipro.com/MUS1002MOMA/...

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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

vampire killer, screenshot, amstrad cpc (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/73527/v...

best joke of the day, imo: downforeveryoneorjustme.com