EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (CN) – Microsoft rushed its Xbox 360 to market to beat competing products by Nintendo and Sony, and the Xbox has a defect that causes it to scratch and ruin game discs, an ...

I've been wondering for some time about the effect of scratches and fingerprints on my game discs, and I've just bought a large HDD so want to rip my older games (e.g. Daggerfall, Strife, Jedi Knight) ...

Peripheral's specialist Pinpoint Consumer Electronics has launched two new advanced disc repair systems that promise to repair scratched discs in under a minute, setting the new world standard in ...

You need to resurface the disc. No software will read through scratched plastic. Go get some brasso and rub it on the disc in small circular motions with a cloth. Use a clean piece of cloth to wipe ...

Right smack in the middle of Microsoft’s most important Xbox 360 game launch of the year, some “Halo 3” discs have been scratched before their unlucky owners ever got a chance to play them. Not all of ...

Microsoft has told Edge that less than 1 percent of Xbox 360 users ever contact the firm with concerns about their machines scratching discs. The claim's been made after news yesterday that a US ...

This article was taken from the February 2011 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands ...

The Xbox 360 was released a decade ago, back when some guy named Bill Gates still worked at the company. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Friday to review a lawsuit between Microsoft and Xbox 360 ...

I don't know why Simon at Gamasutra was updating on December 30, maybe there's no Christmas in England or something, but he got a hot hot scoop a few days ago: apparently popular game-rentals-by-mail ...

The band broke up a lot earlier than I expected last weekend. We were an all-girl band from Stockholm, called Buddha Cracka. I was the lead singer, a redhead named Debbi. A handful of my friends and I ...

Update: Shacknews editor-in-chief Chris Remo and several other Shackers have confirmed instances of scratched discs in their Limited Edition copies of Halo 3. Original Story: Reports originating from ...

Tgdaily.com is carrying a story about an interview with Todd Kuchman, inventor of the Scratch-Less Disc. Kuchman has come up with a scratch resistant CD that also wouldn't become stuck in a CD-ROM ...