The new all-digital configuration of the Xbox Series X ditches the disc drive and (slightly) drops the price to under $450. The newest Xbox gaming console is the discless, All-Digital Xbox Series X, ...

You can buy a disc rated to last 1,000 years, but the company that invented it survived for less than a decade. The Millennial Disc, or M-DISC, is a write-once optical format that physically engraves ...

Cold storage is all about keeping your files and making them last for years, just in case you ever need to retrieve them to look at old memories. Improper methods of storage can cause those memories ...

Here at Ars, we’ve been publicly musing about whether the world was ready for a disc-free game console since as far back as 2015. Now, though, the better question might be whether the world ever needs ...

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Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. In what is undoubtedly a shock move by Sony, PlayStation has announced it is ending physical game production in 2028, and that all new games sold in ...

Here’s the deal: The PlayStation 5 Pro is now available, carrying a hefty price tag of $699.99. That’s steep on its own, but it gets pricier if you also need to grab the PS5 Disc Drive and Vertical ...

With the PS5 Pro releasing this week on November 7, existing PS5 owners with a library of physical games will want to pick up the official PS5 Disc Drive, if you haven’t already. The PS5 Pro’s GPU ...