Game preservation website Myrient to shut down as storage costs surge
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Game preservation website Myrient to shut down as storage costs surge
In a recent update shared via Telegram, the maintainer of Myrient announced that the service will shut down on March 31, 2026. After that date, hundreds of terabytes of gaming-related data is expected to disappear from the internet. The decision reportedly follows a sharp increase in storage and hosting costs,...Read Entire Article
Myrient, a major video game preservation service with 390 TB of ROMs, announces its final closure on March 31, 2026. Its founder, Alexey, cites an explosion of hosting costs, stagnation of donations and abusive commercial exploitation as the main reasons for this drastic decision that strikes the retro game community with full force.
The Myrient online video game archive has announced that it will close on March 31st, thus ending a preservation project with a collection of 390 terabytes.
Emulation is a common way to preserve a medium such as video games. These have a limited lifetime and are replaced by new games that reach more modern consoles. Luckily, there are communities and platforms that are in charge of doing the job of allowing the rise and download of ROMs and ISOs of old games. Myrient is a website that has no less than 390 TB of video games for the preservation of the medium, but its creator has announced its closure…
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