Page two of the news archive. Older stories stay online at their original address, with any corrections attached to them.
What happens to a game when the company that made it stops paying the bill.
Preservation
An always-online requirement is a decision, not a technical fact. We looked at what it would have taken to ship an offline mode before the servers went dark, and in two cases the work had already been done and shelved.
Preservation
Dozens of announcements each year exist only as a re-encoded stream that will be gone in a decade. A handful of volunteer archivists are doing the work that the organisers will eventually wish they had done themselves.
Earlier hardware reporting. Newer stories are on page one.
Hardware
Four manufacturers, four methodologies, four sets of numbers that cannot be compared with one another. We built a rig, published the method, and invited them to tell us where it is wrong.
Nothing published here is ever deleted to tidy up. An article that turned out to be wrong is corrected in place and labelled; an article that has been overtaken by events gets a dated update at the top pointing at the newer piece. Neither is removed. A publication that quietly unpublishes its mistakes is asking you to trust a record it has edited.
These are different things and we keep them separate. A correction means we published something factually wrong: a number, a name, a date, a claim about who did what. It goes at the top, it says what was wrong, and the original wording stays visible with a line through it. An update means the world moved: a company responded, a patch shipped, a decision was reversed. Updates are dated and appended, and they never overwrite what was accurate at the time of writing.
Roughly a third of what we publish gets a follow-up within a year, and we decide which by a rule rather than by what performed well. If a story identified a specific, checkable thing that somebody said they would fix, we go back and check. The four-day week piece will be revisited in 2027 with a third year of data. The preservation story will be revisited whenever one of the nine games either returns or is confirmed gone for good.
We launched in 2021 and we publish perhaps four news stories a month. That is a deliberately low number for a site of this kind, and it is the direct consequence of only running work we did ourselves. There is no wire copy here, no reworded press releases, and no round-ups of other outlets. Two pages of archive is an honest representation of five years of that approach, and we would rather show you that than pad it out.