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Stage Tour guitar controller bundle pre-orders are live and ready to rock, but only the PS5 version comes with a physical disc

Stage Tour took the stage at Gamescom Opening Night Live, and it was revealed that the Guitar Hero spiritual successor will land on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC on December 10, just in time for the holidays. I fully intended to go into the holiday sea

Xbox Is Letting Players Digitize Their Physical Games, Starting Next Week for Select Users

Xbox's new disc-to-digital feature is launching imminently, allowing users to add physical copies of games to their digital library.

Gaming devs and publishers reportedly have ‘a lot of resentment’ for Sony’s handling of physical disc death

This might get interesting. The post Gaming devs and publishers reportedly have ‘a lot of resentment’ for Sony’s handling of physical disc death appeared first on Destructoid .

The Witcher 4 Will Have a Physical Edition Even if Discs Go Away, CD Projekt Red Confirms

The Witcher 4 will still "have a box" for physical game collectors even after Sony stops supporting discs in 2028, CD Projekt Red has confirmed.

The Witcher 4 Will Still Get A Physical Release, Even Though It's Launching In 2028

CD Projekt is planning a The Witcher 4 physical release, even though it admits it has "no influence" over PS5 and Xbox disc production

Persona 6 Release Window Teased in Sega's Physical Release Reveal

Sega has updated the Persona 6 announcement page and revealed some interesting details about its release.

After avoiding game-key cards with Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red says The Witcher 3 Remastered's Switch 2 physical edition details will come "when the time is

As part of CD Projekt Red 's Gamescom 2026 offerings, we got a look at the upcoming The Witcher 3 Remastered, and especially the port for the Switch 2.

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that lets you digitise physical Xbox One and Series X games

UPDATE 11.25AM BST : Xbox CEO Asha Sharma shed a little more light on the feature in a BBC interview.

Saber Boss Reacts To The Death Of Physical Games And Rising Console Prices

2026 has been full of big storylines in gaming, including Sony's announcement that it will end support for physical PlayStation game discs in 2028 and the trend of consoles getting increasingly expensive.

Xbox’s new disc-to-digital program gives physical games a digital future

For decades, console owners have faced a choice between the convenience of digital downloads and the permanence of physical game discs.

Danganronpa 2×2 is cancelling preorders because it won’t get a physical release for “unavoidable reasons”

Some Danganronpa 2×2 pre-orders got cancelled after its Switch 2 disc quietly became a game key card instead.

Xbox adds ‘digital entitlement’ for physical games next week, but I have questions about how it will all work

Disc or digital, it's all about the games. The post Xbox adds ‘digital entitlement’ for physical games next week, but I have questions about how it will all work appeared first on Destructoid .

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma Opens Up on Future of Physical Games for Next Generation Console Project Helix

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma was cagey when asked if the company’s next console, codenamed Project Helix, will have a disc drive or not, but gave some optimistic insights into its approach to physical games.

Grand Theft Auto VI to Feature Physical Appearance Changes, Relationship Choices, Character Switching

Rockstar Games officially revealed gameplay details following a series of leaks. Grand Theft Auto VI to Feature Physical Appearance Changes, Relationship Choices, Character Switching Eddie Fu

Xbox Won’t Say If Project Helix Has A Disc Drive, But It’s Not Giving Up On Physical Games Yet

Sony has already confirmed that it's headed toward an all-digital future soon, but what about Xbox and its next-gen console, Project Helix ?

Microsoft to Allow Customers to Claim Digital Entitlements Through Physical Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S Discs

Xbox Insiders can begin using feature on August 31

Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gam

Xbox has unveiled its long-rumored new disc-to-digital service, which will let players who own physical copies of games claim digital entitlements, playing them as if they own digital copies.

Xbox Is Handling the Transition From Physical Media to Digital Much Better Than PlayStation Is

Xbox just announced its plan to let players digitize their physical games for use across any number of supported devices, from PCs to handhelds to (presumably) the upcoming Project Helix next-gen PC/console hybrid.

Microsoft's New Xbox Disc-to-Digital Feature Converts Your Physical Game Collection Into Digital Licenses

Summary Microsoft officially announced a disc-to-digital feature for Xbox One and Xbox Series X that allows players to convert physical game collections into digital entitlements by inserting a supported disc into their consoleThe digital license remains tied to the specific phys

Xbox Insiders will soon be able to create digital versions of their physical games

Thousands of Xbox One and Series X titles will support the new disc-to-digital feature.

Xbox’s new Disc to Digital feature brings physical libraries into the cloud

Xbox is introducing a new Disc to Digital feature that will allow players to claim digital entitlements for supported physical games they already own.

Xbox Reveals Plan To Save Fans’ Physical Game Collections In A Digital Future: ‘Even As Technology Changes, Your Library Shouldn’t’

This comes as the future of physical games has never been more uncertain

Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games

Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and

Xbox Disc To Digital Announced, Supports Thousands Of Physical Games At Launch - Pure Xbox

Xbox Disc To Digital Announced, Supports Thousands Of Physical Games At Launch Pure Xbox Your Discs. Now Also Digital. XBOX Wire Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games The Verge Xbox boss 'thinking about affordability' of next-gen console BBC Xb

Atari Is Re-Releasing 39 Atari 2600 Games on Working, Physical Cartridges

Atari has today announced a new physical game collaboration with Activision called the Atari x Activision Collection, reuniting Activision with Atari after almost 50 years.

The Witcher 4's 2028 release date sparks PS5 physical release concerns, but is there anything CD Projekt Red can do to avoid Sony's decision?

The Witcher 4 's newly communicated 2028 release date is causing concern among its community about whether the game releases physically on a disc or not. Read more

Activision Embraces Physical Games With 39 Classic Rereleases

Atari and Activision are teaming up to bring back some of the Atari 2600's most iconic games as working physical cartridges.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 Switch 2 physical version is seemingly a code-in-box

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 is the first game in the series to arrive on a Nintendo console since Ghosts on the Wii U in 2013, 13 years ago. The upcoming shooter lands on Switch 2 day-and-date with PC, PlayStation and Xbox . Though there's plenty of excitement to go around, a

Group plans one-week PlayStation blackout to protest Sony’s plan to end physical game production — calls for players to turn off their consoles or log out of PS

Sony’s decision to end physical game production by 2028 is facing backlash from the community, with one group announcing a concrete protest. DoesItPlay, a community dedicated to video game preservation, has called for a one-week boycott of PlayStation, asking players to turn off

The physical activity paradox: not all forms of exercise lower your dementia risk – this type raises it

A major new study of 4.2 million people found leisure exercise cuts dementia risk – but manual labour and active commuting may raise it.

The first physical PC game I remember playing shows what Sony is thoughtlessly destroying

Weird Weekend Weird Weekend is our regular Saturday column where we celebrate PC gaming oddities: peculiar games, strange bits of trivia, forgotten history. Pop back every weekend to find out what Jeremy, Josh and Rick have become obsessed with this time, whether it's the canon h

Inside the Data Bottleneck Slowing Visual and Physical AI

A survey of over 700 professionals examines how visual and physical AI teams build systems, why models fail, and where data work drives production. Download this free whitepaper now!

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

For all the interest in and uptake of agentic AI systems over the past year or so , the world of automated AI has thus far been primarily limited to text, images, code, and other data and actions that take place inside a computer.

I evaluated dozens of digital measuring tools on Android to see if phone sensors can replace physical hardware

There are some legitimate options

a16z creates a $1.1B ‘Machine Age’ fund to ‘accelerate the physical buildout of AI’

The firm, known for its focus on software, is going to start throwing more money at the hardware behind AI.

This Is How Anthropic Thinks AI Agents Should Navigate the Physical World

The potential for AI to automate scientific research and manufacturing must be balanced with new risks, Anthropic says.

BMW’s New iX3 Can Physically Refuse To Let You Open Your Own Door

Neue Klasse safety tech can physically delay your exit, steer around hazards and even save you from stamping on the wrong pedal

Physical AIFollows Aviation’s Flight Plan

Most people who fly can’t tell you how many engines were on the plane. Nowadays nobody needs to. But for decades, that was the most important question in aviation. It decided which routes an aircraft could fly and whether a new design lived or died. That is what a mature industry

'Multitasking' Young Buyers Are Why BMW Is Ditching Physical Buttons

New BMW vehicles are short on physical controls, with only a few buttons in the cabin, and practically everything else is controlled by the touchscreen.

Neura Robotics acquires ADLATUS to build physical AI powerhouse

Hayden Panettiere Suffered From Physical Pain & Barred Ex From Attending Book Signing, Says NYT

A new report says that Hayden Panettiere suffered from mysterious pain that felt like “pins and needles” in her legs and that she gave specific instructions during a Manhattan book tour in May that ex-boyfriend Brian Hickerson could not attend. The New York Times on Sunday said P

Zara flagship store in Shanghai reflects "the future of physical retail"

AIM Architecture has designed Zara Huaihai Road, a flagship store for the Spanish fashion brand in Shanghai, with an amphitheatre-like brick podium that connects the building with the street. Located on Huaihai Road, a well-known commercial district in central Shanghai, the new f

Spending on physical games falls to lowest on record since 1995 — US console sales plunge 39% in July as memory costs push average price to $542

Spending on physical game disks has fallen to the lowest recorded level since tracking began in 1995, according to a new report documenting a drastic slump in the console market. U.S. console hardware sales fell 39% by unit volume in July against a year earlier, while the average

World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is

Members of the world's largest 'truly open library in human history' have issued a worldwide call to volunteers, begging them to scan and upload books online to prevent AI companies from obtaining and destroying huge quantities of books. The Anna's Archive appeal follows multiple

Sony lawyers argue that nobody is stupid enough to believe they actually own digital games, because then only one person could buy GTA 6

With the end of physical PlayStation games looming, the need for clear digital ownership rights is more pressing than ever.

After ditching discs, PlayStation continues replicating Xbox's very bad 2013 by going all in on TV

For gamers who've been following industry news long enough, Sony's recent announcement of plans to end physical PlayStation discs echoed Microsoft's plans for always-online DRM back on the Xbox One.

Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer & Dafnis Prieto, “Fifteen”

A physically exhilarating listen from three notable figures of modern and experimental jazz. Read full story on the Bandcamp Daily .

Einstein thought time dilation was both real and not – he was right

What even is time? Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan takes on this mind-bending question by exploring the proof we have that time dilation is both a physical phenomenon and a psychological one

Seahawks RB Charbonnet remains on PUP list

Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet remains on the physically unable to perform list, meaning he will miss at least Seattle's first four games. Meanwhile, the team released cornerback Trevon Diggs but expects to sign him to the practice squad.

Why parent-child playful interactions mean so much more than fun and games

Parental playfulness is about physical, cognitive and social behaviour marked by creativity, joy, imagination and humour when parents are fully present.

How everyday household tasks impact relationships

The physical, cognitive and emotional loads of running a household should be recognized when examining the health of a couple's relationship, new research has found.

Scientists tracked 4,500 animals and found a surprising human effect

Scientists tracking thousands of animals found that our physical presence can reshape where wildlife moves and lives, sometimes as strongly as roads, cities, and other human development.

Five Guys closed 31 stores last year, even as it grew its presence overall: Here’s where locations shuttered

Five Guys continued to grow its physical footprint last year, but the fast-food burger chain also closed 31 U.S.

13 years after famous Microsoft dunk, ex-PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida says Xbox disc-to-digital feature is "a great move"

Former PlayStation boss Shuhei Yoshida has praised the new Xbox disc-to-digital initiative, with many pointing out the irony of his classic PS4 game sharing video following Sony's decision to drop physical games.

Rockstar lead says GTA 6 takes NPC interactions "much further" than Red Dead Redemption 2, and its system is "returning and evolved"

The GTA 6 extended look live reveal made a point of emphasizing how dual protagonists Jason and Lucia can engage with NPCs in a range of ways, both verbally and physically.

Exercise may create new neurons by making other brain cells contract

Physical activity causes a type of brain cell called astrocytes to contract, which then leads to the formation of new neurons, according to a study in mice

New study reinforce the positive impacts of lifestyle changes on cognitive health and dementia risk

Physical exercise, a proper diet, cognitive training, clinical monitoring, and socialization improve cognitive performance by 55% among older adults in Latin America.

Colts activate No. 1 receiver Pierce off PUP list

The Colts activated wide receiver Alec Pierce off the physically unable to perform list Thursday.

Dolly Parton Has One Last Song Buried in a Time Capsule: ‘My Place In History’

Country queen and national treasure Dolly Parton may have physically left the world on Tuesday, but her indelible mark on the world and the industry will never be forgotten.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 for Switch 2 Is Up for Preorder

Preorders are live for the Nintendo Switch 2 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 – but physical copies are just a code in a box.

Xbox announces disc-to-digital conversion plan as part of its "commitment to game preservation," and while it's a good idea the red flags have me scared

Today, Microsoft announced that players will soon be able to turn their physical Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S discs into digital games. It's a good idea, but even this initial announcement has some red flags that are leaving me nervous as a physical game collector. "Most XBOX One

Xbox’s Disc-To-Digital Program Officially Announced, And It Sounds Pretty Great

Microsoft has officially announced a new Xbox feature that lets you digitize your physical game discs. In a blog post , Microsoft revealed a new system that allows players to "bring the benefits of digital to physical discs," with the aim of giving people more flexibility. This d

Kingdom Hearts Collection 1-3 pre-orders have landed on PS5 and Switch 2, and the goofy box art has thankfully been updated

Kingdom Hearts Collection 1 - 3 pre-orders have arrived physically on both the PlayStation 5 and Nintendo Switch 2, giving you the key to unlock and play almost the entire iconic game series. Launching on October 8 later this year, this collection packs in everything from Kingdom

Cards' Sweat activated off PUP list, back practicing

Cardinals pass rusher Josh Sweat was activated off the physically unable to perform list Monday.

McCarthy: Steelers at 'impasse' with CB Porter

The Steelers are at an "impasse" with Joey Porter Jr. as the cornerback remains sidelined on the physically unable to perform list, coach Mike McCarthy says.

Putting mice into hibernation causes a major loss of synapses

Our leading hypothesis for how our memories are stored is that when you learn something, the connections among neurons involved get stronger and physically larger, and that constitutes the memory. The trouble is that these connections significantly change over time—they’re plasti

One step closer to the ideal glass—simulations reveal hidden order at absolute zero

In the physical sense, glass is not limited to familiar window glass; it forms whenever a liquid is cooled so quickly that it cannot crystallize. As a result, glass has an amorphous structure—that is, its "building blocks" are not arranged regularly as in crystals. At the same ti

Quantum computer microscope is set to significantly improve electron microscopy

Electron microscopes are used wherever particularly small details need to be imaged. But from a strictly physical point of view, every electron in a conventional electron microscope represents a missed opportunity: If all you do is count electrons, any additional quantum informat

Max Verstappen feeling "flu-like" as Zandvoort exposes Red Bull's fundamental problems

With three victories since the Dutch Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2021, Max Verstappen can already look back on a very successful period. The final edition in 2026 has proven an ordeal so far, both in terms of Red Bull’s pace and Verstappen’s physical condition. "I've f

Mac DeMarco Releases Four New Albums

The projects were originally issued as physical-only CD-Rs on tour

What is the best direction to face your subwoofer?

The physical setup of a subwoofer can be the difference between bass that swallows you up and bass that seems to come from a specific spot.

AI is set to boost productivity and will have a ‘profound’ impact on the jobs market: Treasury

An analysis by the Treasury forecasts that AI has the potential to have a bigger impact on high-skilled and cognitive jobs, not just physical and routine roles.

From Hawala to Swift: Inside the 1,000-year battle to move money safely

Finance has spent centuries decoupling wealth from physical transport, but constantly erasing friction creates vectors for increasingly high-tech exploits.

Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB

Cloudflare says that it has freed up roughly 100TB of RAM across its global fleet without reconfiguring any physical RAM modules in its servers, and that it did so by redesigning how each DNS cache entry is laid out in memory.

Except for notified forest, not a foot extra should be added to ESA, demands Shivamogga MP B.Y. Raghavendra

Mr. Raghavendra has urged the government of Karnataka to order a physical survey of the ESA area and reduce it following the Kerala model

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The MacBook Neo Now Has a Dedicated Anti-Theft Cable Lock Adapter From CompuLock

Summary CompuLock introduced a new security adapter designed for the MacBook Neo to bring a physical lock slot back to Apple's entry-level laptop via a screw-on clampThe low-profile attachment is compatible with standard T-shaped cable locks and aims to deter grab-and-go theft in

Childhood trauma may leave a lasting “scar” inside brain cells

Early-life stress may physically alter how DNA is packaged in the brain, leaving stress-related genes primed to activate more easily years later.

Atari revives 39 Activision games on cartridges that run seamlessly across five decades of hardware — Ultimate Deluxe collection that includes every title costs

Atari has officially unveiled the Atari x Activision Collection, a compilation featuring 39 classic Activision games on physical cartridges.

Ramped fields create more robust entanglement between trapped-ion qubits

While quantum computing could be the future, it is currently plagued by finicky hardware. To make the technology practical, researchers must demonstrate that it consistently and continuously works and performs at scale. In a new study, published in Physical Review Letters, resear