A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

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If you want to play your physical games, you’ll have to buy Sony’s $79.99 disc drive. If you want to play your physical games, you’ll have to buy Sony’s $79.99 disc drive. is a senior reporter ...

They can’t sell them if we don’t buy them. Tomorrow is the day, the PlayStation 5 Pro is being launched. That means that the reviews are out and the buying frenzy is about to begin. In fact, it has ...

You can skirt the resale market and buy one for $79.99 right now, but doing so requires a premium membership. You can skirt the resale market and buy one for $79.99 right now, but doing so requires a ...

I should qualify that headline by saying almost anything with a disc drive. I’m sure you can’t copy games to your 2010 Honda Pilot using the janky 6-disc CD changer, but I’m sure some brave soul out ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

The PS5 Disc Drive add-on is finally back in stock at Amazon. The accessory has been difficult to find in stock since it launched last year, so it's probably worth grabbing one while it's still ...

Registration system may be tied to DMCA protection for drive firmware. Not for nothing, and I do understand the general animus towards online checkin requirements ...

If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs. That's been the case for years, with Apple famously starting ...