Video Game Preservation Practices and Approaches

Описание: On 10th November 2025 Digital Scholarship at Oxford held a workshop on Video Game preservation in the Centre for Digital Scholarship, Weston Library, Oxford. We've uploaded the recorded talks here from:

Emily Marlow: Emily is a creative Curator with a focus on videogames, working most recently as in-house Curator at the National Videogame Museum (NVM) in Sheffield. Emily has worked across the academic, videogame and creative sectors over the last decade, writing for PCGamer, TheGamer and TechRadar, as well as working as Research Assistant for the V&A's 2018 exhibition 'Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt'.

Alex Habgood: Alex is an Archivist, working to preserve videogames at The Rebellion Group Archives. He is also a PhD researcher at University College London, exploring potential use-cases for archived videogame materials in the UK context.

Will Butler: Will is a PhD researcher at Bath Spa University in the School of Design. His research concerns videogame preservation; specifically what role producers and developers of digital media play in the preservation and cultural heritage ecosystem.

Chaired by Dr Jack Orchard. Jack is the Content Editor for the Electronic Enlightenment project in the Bodleian Library. In 2019 he completed a PhD on reading practices in eighteenth-century women’s correspondence networks, and has published on digital editing, correspondence, and historical reading practices. More recently he has extended his research into historical game studies and the communication of historical emotions and subjectivities. He currently sits on the editorial board of the Multiplay Network and has published articles in Play the Past and the forthcoming Multiplay collection, Games that Haunt Us.