Earlier this year, we reported on the video game archivists asking for a legal DMCA exemption to share Internet-accessible emulated versions of their physical game collections with researchers ...

But I love having physical copies, even when I can just load up a ROM of an old game. That doesnt mean Im done loading up ...

Physical video games media has been in rapid decline, and it seems possible that Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo could eventually go all digital. Digital distribution has largely taken over.

Online games happen mostly in the cloud regardless of whether you buy a physical or digital copy. And PC Games, at this point, are more-or-less only available as a digital purchase.

Beyond the headline numbers, the availability of legacy games varies greatly across different eras of gaming's short history. A paltry 2.6 percent of games released in or before 1984 are in print ...

Doug Bowser: "In the immediate future, physical games are still a key part of our business. And we value our relationships in particular with our retailers, and want to make sure we have products ...