Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature reportedly traces back to 2011 ownership plans

A post shares excerpts from The Verge’s Tom Warren, who cites sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans saying the company explored digital gifting, recycling digital games and retail disc-for-digital swaps in 2011. Warren describes serial numbers embedded on discs as the mechanism that lets players turn a physical Xbox One disc into a digital copy by inserting it into a drive.

Separately, Xbox shared a Raji: Kaliyuga gameplay look with Nodding Heads Games for Tokyo Game Show. Xbox describes warrior Raji and dreamwalker Darsh facing Mahabalasura, an asura warlord who unleashes an age where every choice can unmake the universe.