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

The Protect Our Games Act has hit a snag

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.