What Happens to Old Web Games?

John Scalzo (of the Video Game Librarian blog) has a nice article over on Gaming Target called "Bejeweled Blitz and the Disappearing Web Games." In it, John talks about the difficulty in preserving Web games when the developer is not longer interested in making them available.

Top Games - Week of Feb 1

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week:

1. FIFA 10
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
3. Super Smash Bros. Brawl
4. DJ Hero
5. (tie) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
5. (tie) Mario Kart DoubleDash
7. (tie) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (Steam, not ours)
7. (tie) New Super Mario Bros.
9. (tie) Call of Duty World at War
9. (tie) Darksiders

Top Games - Week of Jan 25

Here are the top ten games played in the archive last week:

1. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
2. Call of Duty World at War
3. FIFA 09
4. (tie) FIFA 08
4. (tie) FIFA 10
4. (tie) Halo 3
4. (tie) Super Smash Bros. Brawl
8. (tie) DJ Hero
8. (tie) Gunstar Heroes
8. (tie) Super Mario World