For John, the future of highly compressed PC games looked bright. He was excited to see what new titles would be released, and how they would push the boundaries of what was possible in terms of compression and gameplay.

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Following a cryptic link, he downloaded a file that was suspiciously small—barely 100MB for a game that should have been 20GB. As the extraction bar crawled across the screen, Leo felt a mix of excitement and dread. Would it even run? Or was he about to "unbox" a virus that would finally end his PC's long life? The extraction finished. He clicked the .exe .