physical games

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An Xbox console and controller in front of a large physical game collection

GameStop's own CEO just called physical games 'totally irrelevant' — the store that sold them said the quiet part out loud

Ryan Cohen shrugged off the death of physical games because they're now under 12% of GameStop's business. The company built on selling discs has quietly moved on — and that tells you where gaming is headed.

Diego Santos · Aug 1 · 9 min

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the Xbox outage stopped physical discs from working — and quietly proved you don't really own your games

A 16-hour outage of a licensing service blocked sign-ins and game launches across three Xbox generations. The uncomfortable part: even physical disc games refused to start. Here's what happened and why.

Diego Santos · Jul 30 · 9 min