Blog
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Preservation and Play – Nathan Buckley
Nathan Buckley is the Screen Programmes Producer at the Science and Media Museum in Bradford. As part of this role, he produces the Yorkshire Games Festival. The Science Museum Group (SMG) has two approaches…
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Emerging Formats and Digital Storytelling – Giulia Carla Rossi
Giulia Carla Rossi is a researcher, curator and artist based in London. She is Curator for Digital Publications at the British Library, working in the department of Contemporary British & Irish Collections. Her research…
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Bringing Lara Croft Home – Luke Earle
Luke Earle is a Mobile Game Producer and Animation Consultant based in Derby who has spent over a decade building an extensive private Tomb Raider collection. That collection aims to celebrate Derby’s videogame heritage.…
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Preserving Flappy Bird – Alana Coates
Alana Coates is a time-based media conservator with a background in software product management, now focused on the preservation of obsolete and born-digital media. She is finishing her MSc in Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media…
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Monument Valley Model Restoration – Ann Wain
The following case study was presented at a Videogame Heritage Webinar on 11th June 2026 by Ann Wain. Ann is the Collections Officer at the National Videogame Museum, Sheffield. After the presentation, Conor Clarke,…
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Why Conserving Videogame Heritage is (almost) Impossible II: Why is it Sticky?
Álvaro Vázquez Guisado is Conservator-Restorer of Cultural Heritage from Seville University. A brilliant follow-up to his previous research on the practicalities of preserving physical videogame material. Álvaro discusses the challenges faced by all preservation…
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Why Conserving Videogame Heritage is (almost) Impossible: Materials and Storage Conditions
Álvaro Vázquez Guisado is Conservator-Restorer of Cultural Heritage from Seville University. As we all know, videogames, consoles, and all their related media, are objects of a growing cultural interest, being the cause of one…
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Collecting the Guildford Games Sector – Sarah Fairhurst
Sarah Fairhurst is the Collections Manager at the Guildford Heritage Service. When I started as Collections Manager for the Guildford Heritage Service just over 18 months ago, I had no idea that Guildford was…
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The VHS “Collector’s Edition” Interview Series
The VHS aims to collaborate with private videogame collectors and preservationists. The “Collector’s Edition” interview series seeks out those individuals, provides a platform for them to share their extensive knowledge and expertise, and sheds…