Optical discs, such as DVDs and Blu-rays, may have completely fallen out of favor in the PC games business over the last few years, but scientists have possibly thrown a lifeline to the ...

While sales of physical PC games in Western markets have declined over the years, India is still a country where the DVD is all-important. This is simply because the country lacks the infrastructure ...

Steam revitalised PC gaming after a rough period of the mid-2000s, putting to rest those premature prognostications that gaming on home computers was "dead". It gave big publishers a way to secure ...

From what I've noticed, most games to be installed can be downloaded off the internet without physical media, let alone the need for any optical drive. At worst, you may want a DVD drive (and dollars ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. After about a day of confusion, Bethesda clarifies that its upcoming space RPG Starfield will have a physical disc. According to a Starfield blog post ...

I've had my UT3 game disc sitting in its tin box for 2 or 3 years. No longer works. C&C 3 disc maybe a little less. Also no longer works (or is working really, really slowly). What is the natural ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Bethesda has cleared up some confusion about the physical version of Redfall, confirming that the game will, in fact, come with a disc--at least on ...