When the original Tomb Raider came out on PC, it asked for about 100MB of hard drive space. The latest Lara Croft adventure, Shadow of the Tomb Raider , needs 40GB for the base game. That roughly a 400 fold jump, and plenty of modern games follow the same pattern. Worse, when you uninstall one to make room for the next, some of that data can stay behind. So why do games take up so much space today? Let dig in. Every game on a digital store lists the space it needs, and it easy to see why. A...
