Embracer Group announces that it is embarking on a video game archiving project to preserve and pay tribute to this heritage with the Embracer Games Archive. This mission includes both games, their accessories and consoles.
Video games have undeniably been an important part of our culture for several decades. To preserve them is to keep a trace of their history in the future. Embracer Group, which recently acquired the western branch of Square Enix (with Tomb Raider, Deus Ex licenses) is now embarking on this adventure.
Archiving Video Games: Embracer’s Mission
The company formerly known as THQ Nordic has announced that it is launching a video game archiving project to safeguard the industry as much as possible. On the page dedicated to this company, Embracer states that in “building a large archive of physical games, we want to preserve and honor the culture of games over a long period of time“. This archive also includes the consoles and accessories necessary for the proper functioning of these video games.
Embracer announces to start with the European editions in English (more particularly from Northern Europe), but wishes to collect the North American and Japanese editions in a second phase. Certain video games obviously have priority. We can imagine that these are the games that have sold the most.
A mission also carried out by the National Library of France (BnF), which through its Sound, Video, Multimedia Department, collects and preserves audiovisual documents and in particular video games.
The ambitions of the Embracer Games Archive
This video game archive aims to collect and archive as many video games as possible as well as their media (consoles, computers) and accessories (controllers, etc.). In the future, she plans to collaborate with museums, institutions or to help journalists and researchers in their work.
The Embracer Games Archive also plans to exhibit parts of the archive around the world by creating exhibitions for example. Some parts of the collection could also be accessible to the public in the long term.
Where is Embracer’s video game archive?
The Embracer Games Archive currently has 50,000 games, consoles and accessories stored in Karlstad, Sweden. The team is made up of CEO David Boström, an archivist, an assistant archivist, a technical engineer and a supply manager. This year, the archive plans to build a database and begin cataloging. A catalog that will be gradually accessible.
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