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Epic Games is officially cool with the Internet Archive preserving early Unreal games (www.gamedeveloper.com)
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The Unreal series may have been shelved years ago, but Epic is letting its first two installments live on through the Internet Archive.

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[โ€“] stardust@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Winning move from Epic. Showing what should be done for abandoned games. Give it back to the people so it can continued to be enjoyed by the community that will continue to care for it.

[โ€“] echodot@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

There's literally no reason not to do that. The game has long since made money and keeping it out of public ownership is now not doing anyone any favors.

Some studios are just intransigent.