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Former Black Ops Dev Calls Out Xbox's PlayStation Port Windfall: "It's Hard to Watch"
Former Black Ops Dev Calls Out Activision's PlayStation Port Windfall: "It's Hard to Watch" Two Call of Duty titles old enough to have voted in a general election quietly arrived on PlayStation in...
Final Fantasy Resonance Review Roundup: A Stunning HD-2D Rebirth That Can't Fully Escape Its Gacha Origins
It is one of the strangest release stories in recent memory. A free-to-play gacha RPG, shut down and taken offline forever, has been resurrected as a full-price single-player adventure. Final Fantasy...
Final Fantasy 7 Revelation's Director Fought for a Full Disc Release - Here's Why It Still Needs a Download
What Hamaguchi Actually Said, and What He Couldn't Control In interviews with Radio Times and IGN , Hamaguchi was remarkably candid about his position. He said he "did his best" to fight for a proper...
The Witcher 3 Remastered on Switch 2: How Any Physical Cartridge - Even a Borrowed One - Unlocks the Free Upgrade
You do not need to own The Witcher 3 to get its Nintendo Switch 2 remaster for free. That is not a typo, and it is not the setup to an exploit buried in a forum thread. According to player reports,...
Xbox Disc-to-Digital Officially Launches for All Players: What the Feature Does, Which Discs Work, and Why It Matters
There is a particular irony in Xbox handing physical media a graceful digital afterlife at the precise moment that physical media is dying. In 2013, Microsoft pitched the Xbox One as an...
Destiny 2's Impossible U-Turn: How Players Forced Bungie to Reverse the End of Its Own Game
In June 2026, Bungie laid off most of its Destiny 2 team, listed its office space for sublease, and described the "Monument of Triumph" update in its own Steam news posts as "our last live service...
Rain World Is Finally Free of Adult Swim's Legal Limbo - And Nearly Free to Buy
There is a particular kind of irony in watching a game about a small, fragile creature scraping out an existence in a world that does not care whether it lives or dies get trapped in a world that...
Xbox's Disc-to-Digital Program Hits a Wall: Why Ubisoft, Square Enix, Sega, and Bandai Namco Are Missing
When Microsoft unveiled its Disc-to-Digital program for Xbox Insiders on August 26, 2026, it looked like a masterstroke. The initiative lets players insert a physical Xbox One or Series X/S disc and...
Final Fantasy 7 Remake Director Pushes for Physical Release of Trilogy Finale as Industry Goes All-Digital
The video game industry is hurtling toward a disc-free future. Sony has confirmed it will end production of new physical discs by 2028, and Rockstar Games is launching Grand Theft Auto 6 as a...
Dan Houser on Physical vs. Digital Games: “If People Want That, Companies Should Provide It”
In an industry racing toward an all-digital future, one of gaming’s most influential voices has offered a surprisingly ambivalent take. Dan Houser, co-creator of Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead...