Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California

A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body. The advancement is a major win for Stop Killing Games ' grassroots game preservation movement and comes over the objections of industry lobbyists at the Entertainment Software Association . California's Protect Our Games Act , as currently written, would require digital game publishers who cut off suppo