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Square Enix had an embarrassing week after a routine patch for Nier Automata on Steam quietly ballooned the game's file size from around fifty gigabytes to three hundred and sixty-six gigabytes overnight. The update, which added Korean and Chinese language support, wasn't optional, meaning players had no choice but to download it regardless.
On a more nostalgic note, Electronic Arts has dropped twenty-five restored classic titles onto Steam, GOG, and the EA App, including multiple entries in the Wing Commander and Ultima series. The unlikely catalyst? An EA producer stumbling across a cupboard stuffed with old tapes, film reels, and CDs. Sometimes the archive finds you.
And in the AI business story everyone will interpret differently, a new Deloitte report claims twenty-eight percent of companies are now seeing real revenue growth from their AI investments, up from twenty percent earlier this year. The catch is that most firms still can't clearly explain what's actually driving those gains, which raises a fair question about whether the confidence is getting ahead of the understanding.
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