Most optical drives today are combo CD/DVD drives that support DVDs and all the CD formats: CD audio, CD-ROM, CD-R and CD-RW. The speeds of the drives are rated by their CD-ROM and DVD transfer rates.

Stand-alone CD duplicators, as well as most CD/DVD drives in personal computers, are CD burners. However, CD players used in stereos and home theaters are generally not able to burn CD-R media.

PC Gamer pulled that interesting tidbit from a talk Harrington gave at last week's Game Developers Conference. In her ...

Harrington has a somewhat contentious relationship with Valve's origin story. In 2024, she said that her name had been erased ...