Physical game preservation is on life support, and that's not because people have stopped caring — it's because physical distribution itself is fading into obscurity, slowly but surely. You can't ...

2025 has been an awful year for Xbox Series X|S physical media, and following this year's Xbox Games Showcase, where many titles received pre-order details, the situation is looking even more worrying ...

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