Microsoft is pressing its Xbox business for growth and stronger profits after 25 years of losses and thin margins. Here's the ...

Optical media is great — it’s pretty high density, relatively durable, and decently long-lasting if well cared for. If not ...

As Sony kills physical discs entirely, Microsoft is quietly building a way for Xbox owners to digitize their physical ...

It may be the best hope at keeping physical gaming libraries relevant in the next-generation.

Xbox is reportedly following PlayStation into a discless future for its consoles and games. The company is said to be working on a feature that will let Xbox users digitise their ...

With physical game discs dying off, is your library safe? Here is how Microsoft’s rumored 'Positron' feature could turn your old Xbox discs into digital keys.

Consoles with disc drives are the easiest way to enjoy all kinds of physical media, but that could end with the next-gen PlayStation 6 and Microsoft's Project Helix. Gamers can probably expect all of ...

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OmniDrive is custom firmware for select Blu-Ray drives powered by the MediaTek MT1959 chipset that allows for numerous proprietary game disc formats to be read or ripped for backups and emulation. One ...

Connecting the dots: Emulating retro games occupies a legal gray area: copying titles you already own is generally permissible, but few players have a practical way to do it. A newly released custom ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. New reports suggest Microsoft is working on a new disc-to-digital conversion program for its next-gen Project Helix console PC hybrid. It's believed that ...

We've been pondering for a while now about whether Xbox might choose to avoid including a disc drive in the next-gen Project Helix console, and a new report suggests that might indeed be the case.