Gamer's Voice
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Standing up for UK gamers and pushing for a fair, transparent, accountable games industry. We are a UK based not for profit company no 16986530 www.gamersvoice.org
EA Is Now Officially Owned by Saudi Arabia. The bar is low but we can’t see a private equity making this better. www.polygon.com/ea-owned-sau... #gaming #EA
‘Madden’ and ‘Apex Legends’ Publisher Is Now Officially Owned by Saudi Arabia
The Saudi Arabian government's investment fund just acquired EA, the publisher behind many of the biggest games.
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The end of the world: how players mourn the death of their favourite online games www.theguardian.com/games/2026/a... #SKG #Gaming
The end of the world: how players mourn the death of their favourite online games
Online multiplayer changed the trajectory of games, but the cost of keeping servers running means every virtual world is doomed to die – sooner or later
theguardian.com
It seems a little missed that SKG want this to apply to new games. Although if existing games can be changed great - What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game www.rockpapershotgun.com/what-if-stop... #SKG
What if Stop Killing Games win? Anthem, SpaceCraft and Warframe devs on the "massive undertaking" of preserving an always-online game
Game developers discuss the challenge of adapting an always-online game to run without official server support.
rockpapershotgun.com
Should we continue to complain about the loss of physical media? ‘Despite petitions, protests, and blackouts, Sony won't backtrack on its decision to kill off physical media’ www.eurogamer.net/sony-physica... #gaming #sony
"It's not just for PlayStation, but for all kinds of content, digitalization is progressing" Despite petitions, protests, and blackouts, Sony won't backtrack on its decision to kill off physical media
Sony has heard your complaints, but it's done little to move the needle when it comes to PlayStation physical media and discs.
eurogamer.net
Devs have put together a bundle of DRM games to support laid-off colleagues - Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others itch.io/b/3802/game-... #gaming
Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
itch.io
Just one of the many things wrong with the games industry! www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #gaming #EA
After laying off Battlefield 6 developers, EA pays its CEO $38 million because Battlefield 6 did so well
That's an $8 million raise over 2025.
pcgamer.com
A disc no longer means you can play a game when you want. Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc www.theverge.com/games/971545... #gaming
Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc
Even physical games ran into problems.
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Nice to see an MP realise we need to build positive gaming type spaces that are safe for young people. UK MP vows to raise Club Penguin revival in Parliament if TikTok video reaches 200k likes | The Express Tribune tribune.com.pk/story/261997... #gaming #Politics
UK MP vows to raise Club Penguin revival in Parliament if TikTok video reaches 200k likes | The Express Tribune
Labour MP Gordon McKee says he will raise Club Penguin's return in Parliament if TikTok video reaches 200,000 likes
tribune.com.pk
EU approves Saudi Arabia's $55bn acquisition Electronic Arts, leaving path open for largest private leveraged buyout of all time www.eurogamer.net/saudi-arabia... #gaming #EA
EU approves Saudi Arabia's $55bn acquisition Electronic Arts, leaving path open for largest private leveraged buyout of all time
The buyout, first proposed last September, now has few - if any barriers - left to block it.
eurogamer.net
The end of an era with Game going into administration www.heraldscotland.com/news/2629039... #gaming #retail
High street giant with 300 stores collapsed into administration owing £16m
A retail giant that was a familiar sight on the high street was placed into administration owing almost £16 million.
heraldscotland.com
Watch out if you are using these monitors to game on - DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM?... #gaming #privacy
DO NOT BUY: LG’s Spyware TVs, Monitors, and Wiretapping Concerns
Sponsor: Antec Vortex View 360 on Amazon https://geni.us/SqFNc LG recently forced upon us an app install loaded with McAfee adware through a Windows update. We found that this has been happening to…
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On today’s episode of ‘how can execs ruin gaming’ welcome to in-game advertising. kotaku.com/ea-vp-urges-... #gaming #EA #advertising
EA Is Salivating At The Prospect Of Loading Games Up With Ads
The last un-monetized frontier of gaming: virtual billboards
kotaku.com
Some games are internationally engineered to be kill able with a remote switch. ‘Ubisoft Connect went down briefly and made Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced unplayable on PC, despite having an offline mode’ www.eurogamer.net/assassins-cr... #gaming #SKGaming #Ubisoft
Ubisoft Connect went down briefly and made Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced unplayable on PC, despite having an offline mode
Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced players on PC were shocked to find that a Ubisoft Connect outage has locked them out of playing the game.
eurogamer.net
This is cool - The SKG Game Jam 2026 Trailer youtu.be/PLvvawfy7lQ?... #SKGaming
The SKG Game Jam 2026 Trailer
Hey everyone we Potato Game Dev and DVH have a big announcement to make! We will premiere the Theme of the upcoming Game Jam on Youtube. When the movie ends in real life at the exact time the…
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This is a real shame. It feels like if Gamers were any other kind of medium more effort and resources would be made to preserve them www.tomshardware.com/video-games/... #gaming #preservation
Germany's massive 60,000-game preservation project collapses after €1.5 million funding dries up — world's largest game archive was entirely publicly available, now abandoned just as Sony kills physical media
The state-backed ICS pooled more than 60,000 games from museums and Germany's ratings body.
tomshardware.com
Very true if you lose physical media and place everything behind subscription models you lose your USP of a plug and play console - Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus... #gaming #sony #xbox #nintendo
Consoles continue their trend of just becoming worse PCs
As prices go up and exclusives dry up, the old "plug-and-play" argument has never been flimsier.
pcgamer.com
Over in the US the ESA (Entertainment Software Association, lobby) just said live in committee on the POG act, that Minecraft community servers are illegal www.reddit.com/r/StopKillin... #Gaming #Minecraft
From the StopKillingGames community on Reddit: Industry lobby says Minecraft community servers are illegal
Explore this post and more from the StopKillingGames community
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We had missed the Guardian ran this story! ‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable www.theguardian.com/games/2026/j... #gaming
‘They kill games, we fight back’: the activists campaigning to keep video games playable
When a company decided to shut down an online game’s servers, there wasn’t much the players who had bought that title could do – until a group called Stop Killing Games began lobbying for new…
theguardian.com
No disc, extra payments to unlock full features. Unknown whether multiplayer will then cost extra. GTA might be a great game but it’s hard to argue these are consumer friendly practices from Rockstar. #gaming #GTA #consumers
Why Gamer's Voice is supporting Stop Killing the Internet gamersvoice.org/why-gamers-v... #gaming #socialmedia
Why Gamer's Voice is supporting Stop Killing the Internet
I wanted to write an update on a new project that Gamer’s Voice has been working on called Stop Killing the Internet. The observant among you will note that
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PC players were imagining it all along… “PlayStation CEO: 'A Game Console is Necessary For Playing Games'” insider-gaming.com/playstation-... #Gaming #Playstation #PC
PlayStation CEO: 'A Game Console is Necessary For Playing Games'
In a recent interview, the CEO of PlayStation, Hideaki Nishino, stated his belief that a games console is needed to play games.
insider-gaming.com
Scaremongering articles like this fail to mention how many risks exist offline, or how easy it is to get referred to Prevent: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06... #Prevent #Gaming
telegraph.co.uk
'We are building a global movement' — UK's teen social media ban sparks a campaign to defend the open internet www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-priv... #StopKillingtheInternet #Ski #socialmedia #SKgaming
'We are building a global movement' — UK's teen social media ban sparks a campaign to defend the open internet
The Stop Killing the Internet campaign has also launched a petition urging the UK government to scrap its plan
techradar.com
This is sad. One of our supporters said Hellblade is a hidden diamond. ‘Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory’ www.theverge.com/games/950204... #Hellblade #Xbox #Gaming
Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory
The future of Senua, which Xbox just announced, is unclear.
theverge.com
The threats to an open net are a threat to gaming. We can’t stand by as every gamer gets forced to do an ID check to play games and younger games are excluded from proximity or team based games with voip or team chat. Www.stopkillingtheinternet.net #gaming #socialmedia #humanrights
It is very disappointing to see video games are going to be included in the social media ban. There are games like Among Us, or team based games were being able to communicate with team mates you meet in the game is essential to playing the game. #Socialmedia #Starmer
Ross has an update on the Stop Killing Games campaign. youtu.be/CgoODQFrPgw?... #SKGaming #Gaming
The decision is being made on Stop Killing Games! + The ESA can't stop lying.
The decision is coming up for Stop Killing Games, but we're not leaving a lot to chance! Also the ESA can't help themselves and is now trying to lie to California State Senate about trying to solve…
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