Tag Archives: Preservation

Mount Tabor must have a better publicist, because Rocky Butte is really Portland’s more important and influential extinct volcano. The Rocky Butte Preservation Society is doing its best to promote its mountain’s reputation with a slew of informative newsletters, history walks and trash cleanups. The society will host what its organizers say is the the first concert inside Rocky Butte’s …

Fossils usually leave us with bones turned to stone, the hard remains of creatures long gone. But every so often, nature offers something far rarer — a glimpse of soft tissue that survived for millions of years. Researchers examining a 520-million-year-old arthropod larva were stunned to find not just an outline of the creature, but an interior anatomy preserved with …

While the Switch 2 reveal and release brought with it all sorts of discussion, when it comes to controversy, there’s one topic that has risen above all others…and it only seems to become a bigger point of contention. While Switch 2 owners can pick up physical Game Cards for the system, there’s also the line of Game-Key Cards as well. …

Nintendo Switch 2 game-key cards are back in the news as they’ve essentially been denied entry into the National Diet Library. Otherwise known as the NDL, this is Japan’s national library. However, due to the nature of this specific physical media, game-key cards cannot be accepted for preservation. PR for NDL told Famitsu in an interview: “Because the target is …

Image: Ollie Reynolds / Nintendo Life Japan’s National Diet Library (or ‘NDL’, for short) is one of the biggest libraries in the world and, from the year 2000, began to obtain video game CDs and cartridges for preservation purposes. According to an article from Famitsu (thanks, Automaton), however, the library does not consider the Switch 2’s Game-Key Cards as ‘proper’ …