{
  "id": 3529222,
  "title": "Xbox announces disc-to-digital feature that digitizes your physical games",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/xbox-announces-disc-to-digital-feature-that-digitizes-your-physical",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-26T14:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/984936/xbox-disc-to-digital-feature-official"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Microsoft is officially announcing a new Xbox feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. The disc-to-digital feature, which The Verge exclusively revealed last month, is part of work that Microsoft is doing for game preservation and in preparation for the next generation of Xbox consoles. \"Most Xbox One and […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "Tom's Hardware",
        "title": "Xbox announces new disc-to-digital feature for physical media — lets players claim digital versions of their games, with support for Play Anywhere and Cloud Gaming",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/xbox-announces-new-disc-to-digital-feature-for-physical-media-lets",
        "published": "2026-08-26T15:08:27.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Xbox announces a disc-to-digital feature that will allow users to digitize their existing physical games, rolling out for Xbox Insider testers on August 31 (Tom Warren/The Verge)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/xbox-announces-a-disc-to-digital-feature-that-will-allow-users-to",
        "published": "2026-08-26T15:20:55.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "TechSpot",
        "title": "Xbox unveils disc-to-digital feature designed to digitize existing physical games",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/26/xbox-unveils-disc-to-digital-feature-designed-to-digitize-existing",
        "published": "2026-08-26T16:24:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}