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Pre-loads are live for Phantom Blade Zero, the debut action game from Chinese developer S-Game. Alongside news of the pre-load, the studio revealed the final set of PC requirements, including how much space the game is going to take up on your drive.

Once installed, Phantom Blade Zero will occupy a chonky 145GB of your precious storage space. However, to pre-load the game, you're going to need over double that - 300GB, seemingly for the decryption and decompression process. The developer explained in a Steam blog post that "temporary files and the complete game files must coexist during the unlock process". You'll get back the extra space once the game is installed, of course.

While a game requiring extra space for these operations is not uncommon, the fact Phantom Blade Zero's install size is already so large makes needing to free up double that ludicrous.…