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GTA 6′s Collector’s Box Gator Statue Can Now Be 3D Printed: ‘$400 And No Disc? F**k You Rockstar’

At least one person is so fed up with Rockstar that they modeled a cartoon gator in retaliation

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 28, 2026

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Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave Fans Cause Online Banana Shortage At Walmart

Let me explain

By Ethan Gach Published September 18, 2026

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Xbox One’s Catastrophic DRM Is The Reason It Can Now Offer Disc-To-Digital

The Xbox One's pitch for an all-digital, always-online future went down in flames so its disc-to-digital initiative could be born from the ashes

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 17, 2026

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Requires A Download Instead Of Shipping Complete On Multiple Discs To Avoid Compromising The ‘Fidelity’ And ‘Quality’

Director Naoki Hamaguchi defended the move amid the current uproar over physical games

By Ethan Gach Published September 10, 2026

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Fans Put Together A List Of Every Time Sony Said Players Owned Their Digital Games After The Company Argued In A Lawsuit That It Was Obvious Players Don’t

Sony really likes to use the word "owned" despite claiming nobody would ever think they owned a digital game

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 10, 2026

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Buying A Fat Stack Of Physical Games Still Feels Amazing

A new feature is reviving my Xbox game library

By Ethan Gach Published September 4, 2026

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Sony Officially Reveals New PlayStation Lego Set Featuring A Big Ol’ Disc Drive

Awkward timing to show off a PS1 Lego set featuring a prominent and functional disc tray

By Zack Zwiezen Published September 3, 2026

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Fans Flood PlayStation State Of Play Chat With Calls For Destiny 3 And ‘No Disc, No Buy’

Sony's marketing blitz brings out the hecklers

By Ethan Gach Published September 3, 2026

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Xbox CEO Won’t Say If Project Helix Has A Disc Drive: ‘We Have To Be Thinking About Efficiency And Affordability’

Asha Sharma dodged the biggest question around next-generation consoles at the moment

By Ethan Gach Published August 26, 2026

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PlayStation Chooses The Worst Possible Time To Blast Players With Reminders That They Don’t Own Their Digital Games

Terms of service reminders went out to a bunch of PSN users amid the ongoing backlash over the end of PlayStation discs

By Ethan Gach Published August 22, 2026

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Nobody’s Buying New Physical Games On Xbox In The U.S.

Nintendo runs away with it

By Rebekah Valentine Published August 20, 2026

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Xbox Says July’s Massive Outage Was Made Far Worse By A Bug That’s Now Been Fixed

Still, it remains a grim reminder that we don't own the digital games we pretend we're buying

By John Walker Published August 12, 2026

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Rockstar’s Parent Company Says ‘Discs Don’t Really Make Sense For The Consumer’

CEO Strauss Zelnick thinks Take-Two will still produce some physical games 'now and then'

By Zack Zwiezen Published August 7, 2026

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Sony Not Budging On Ending PlayStation Discs In The Face Of Fan Protests: ‘We’re Going To Cautiously Move This Forward’

The PS5 maker said it already put a lot of thought into the decision

By Ethan Gach Published July 31, 2026

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Xbox Says Recent Outage Shouldn’t Have Screwed With Your Physical Games And Promises A Fix

You should be able to play your disc-based games offline

By Zack Zwiezen Published July 29, 2026

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Final Fantasy 7 Revelation Director Gets Philosophical About Physical Games

Naoki Hamaguchi says he's pushing to make sure the third and final part of the FF7 remake trilogy gets 'some kind of physical' release

By Zack Zwiezen Published July 29, 2026

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Director Says End Of Physical Discs Is ‘Super Sad’

The devs also revealed that their publisher discussed skipping physical, but figured players would want to 'hold it in their hands'

By Zack Zwiezen Published July 28, 2026

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Xbox Swings Into Damage Control Mode And Calls Extended Outage That Locked Players Out Of Their Games ‘Unacceptable’

The executive said Xbox is working on the issue to prevent outages like this in the future

By Ethan Gach Published July 28, 2026

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Physical Copies Of GTA 6 In Japan Will Expire After A Few Months

You'd better use that code in 170 days or less...

By Zack Zwiezen Published July 27, 2026

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Xbox Servers Go Down And Lock Fans Out Of Games As A Grim Reminder Of Our All-Digital Future [Update: ‘Things Are Slowly Improving’]

The outage prevented players from accessing their libraries or launch games

By Zack Zwiezen Updated July 27, 2026