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"We were only three votes away": Stop Killing Games-backed California bill to keep online games playable fails to win over senate committee

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Rock Paper Shotgun"We were only three votes away": Stop Killing Games-backed California bill to keep online games playable fails to win over senate committeerockpapershotgun.com

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A Californian bill aiming to force publishers shutting down servers for online games to provide a version of the game players can keep on playing independently of said servers or issue full refunds has failed to pass a committee vote in the state's senate. That means the bill's march through the legislature , which has been backed by the wider Stop Killing Games campaign , has come to a relative standstill for now. Read more

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