Stop deleting console games: Your old PC hard drive is the perfect 'cold storage' for your PS5 or Xbox ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

Here at Ars, we’ve been publicly musing about whether the world was ready for a disc-free game console since as far back as 2015. Now, though, the better question might be whether the world ever needs ...

Retail boxes for the PS5 Slim have revealed an internet connection is required to pair the detachable disc drive to the console before it can be used. As Eurogamer reports, Sony decided to add a ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally in 2010 because an opportunity presented itself ...

After you’ve paired the console and optical drive, you’ll be in the clear. But some are already annoyed by the requirement. After you’ve paired the console and optical drive, you’ll be in the clear.

If you plan to pick up a slim PS5 digital edition or the PS5 Pro, you probably know already that you’ll be needing a disc drive if you want to play Blu-ray games and movies. Sony makes a $79.99 ...

The PlayStation 5 Disc Drive has been a difficult device to find in most parts of the world. It’s been sold out at most retailers across the globe, with small quantities popping up from time to time.

Sony will soon sell an optional PlayStation 5 Blu-ray disc drive that can be used in conjunction with new, all-digital PS5 slim models coming later this year, but it appears the disc drive will ...

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...