The Stop Killing Games campaign is "seriously looking" at backing similar legislation at the federal level. A bill that aimed to stop (or at least dissuade) publishers from taking games offline and making them unplayable has run into a roadblock in the California State Senate. The Protect Our Games Act failed to pass the Business, Professions and Economic Development committee, with four state senators voting in favor, three against and four abstaining. The committee unanimously voted in favor of granting the bill reconsideration, meaning it could come back before this group of state senators....
California bill to preserve online games fails committee vote