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UNCOVERED: Stop killing games - The Untold Story

GTA 6 Leaker Threatens To Expose Ending Over Rockstar's 'Code-In-A-Box' Strategy

CyberLeek has leaked GTA VI content, protesting digital game distribution practices. The group demands changes, including ending digital pre-orders and ensuring offline functionality for single-player games.

International Business Times UK

Stop Killing Games distances itself from GTA 6 leak manifesto: 'Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable to us'

The group is urging its followers not to give the leakers money.

PC Gamer

GTA 6 leakers called out by Stop Killing Games after demanding game preservation solutions and physical discs from Rockstar: "Using illegal means to make a point is unacceptable"

"This kind of act is destructive and helps no one"

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Stop Killing Games might never win according to expert: "Are consumer rights being violated? Well, they already exist to be violated"

There's no easy way out

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Stop Killing Games has joined a lawsuit against Sony's move to digital-only sales: 'You won't have any choice at all'

Sony-only.

PC Gamer

"It's time to sue Sony": Stop Killing Games joins lawsuit over PlayStation's digital "monopoly" amid death of physical games

"Once Sony stops selling physical games in 2028, you won't have any choice at all"

GamesRadar

"The conversation needs to shift to consumer rights": Amid PlayStation's physical shutdown, analyst clarifies viral remarks about nobody missing disc drives

"This isn't me saying 'Wow I love Sony and they are great for doing this'"

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'The average person expects something marketed as a physical copy of something to be physical': Stop Killing Games on PlayStation killing discs

We spoke with Stop Killing Games to get their take on Sony's announcement that it will no longer produce discs for new games starting in 2028.

Tom’s Guide

Former Call of Duty frontman launches new studio with a 'Stop Killing Games'-style mission statement: If the game bombs, it goes open source

After the disastrous end of Midnight Society, Robert Bowling is back to try again.

PC Gamer

Game preservation expert says stop killing games if you don't want piracy, because companies like PlayStation and Rockstar "refuse to offer a meaningful alternative"

GTA 6 is only the tip of the iceberg

GamesRadar

PlayStation is officially killing physical discs — here's when they disappear and what that means for you

Sony is officially ending physical disc versions of brand-new games starting in January 2028. Here's why the company has decided to make this decision.

Tom’s Guide

Are Minecraft community servers illegal? The ESA brands them piracy, pushing back against the Stop Killing Games movement

The ESA has sparked controversy after describing community-run Minecraft servers as "illegal" during a California hearing on the Protect Our Games Act. The comments have reignited debate over game preservation, player-run servers, and Microsoft's approach to community-hosted Minecraft experiences.

Windows Central

Private Minecraft servers are "illegal," game industry lobbyists declare as another Stop Killing Games effort is struck down in California

"Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them"

GamesRadar

Stop Killing Games says 'the fight goes on' after European Commission rejects proposed rule changes: 'We're much more than just this single petition'

The outcome is disappointing but not terribly surprising.

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‘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 consumer protection laws

GamesRadar

"The timing is impossible to ignore": Stop Killing Games says Ubisoft attended "invitation-only" meeting with EU Commission ahead of response to campaign sparked by The Crew shutdown, but it "was not invited"

There are just thirteen days to go

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Protect Our Games Act Bill Officially Passes California's State Assembly

California's state assembly votes favorably of the Protect Our Games Act that Stop Killing Games helped move forward.

PC Gamer

The Stop Killing Games movement hits another major milestone as a game preservation bill passes California State Assembly vote

The bill now moves on to the California State Senate.

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Industry lobbyists ridicule "false premise" that "consumers 'own' digital games" amid Stop Killing Games fight

The Entertainment Software Association thinks it's pretty obvious that you own nothing its members produce

PC Gamer

Game industry lobby group that argued against preservation efforts from libraries is now pushing back on Stop Killing Games, saying it could prevent 'new games, features, and technology'

Your occasional reminder that the Entertainment Software Association is not your friend.

Destructoid

The video games industry wants to keep killing games, actually

Games industry, please stop killing yourself.

PC Gamer

Mozilla, Stop Killing Games and more team up to tell the UK to stop making the internet worse

"Even targeted age restrictions of specific features could mean that all users are required to complete intrusive age assurance processes".

PC Gamer

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively'

"The momentum is real."

Destructoid

French consumer advocacy group sues Ubisoft for taking The Crew offline, almost two years since Stop Killing Games first protested it

It has the chance to singlehandedly improve consumer rights across the board.

GamesRadar

Ubisoft sued again over The Crew shutdown, this time by French consumer group backed by Stop Killing Games alleging misleading ownership rules

Ubisoft was first sued for The Crew's closure in 2024

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