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A PlayStation 5 game case standing on a shelf, illustrative of Persona 6's confirmed physical release

everyone's calling this a Persona 6 release-date leak. it's actually just Atlus being Atlus

SEGA confirmed Persona 6 gets a PS5 disc release. Fans did the math and landed on 2027 — but there's a much simpler explanation for the footnote.

Hitbox · Aug 26 · 6 min

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

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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.

Hitbox · 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.

Hitbox · Jul 30 · 9 min