Hi everyone, welcome to the latest Call For Questions post, this time for the 238th episode (not including specials) of DF Direct Weekly. It'll be Rich (ie me), John and Oliver at the mics this week, with a special guest appearance from a certain Thomas Morgan.
What's on the docket? Quite ...
2025-10-30 16:49:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there and welcome to the latest weekly update from Digital Foundry. Sorry it's a bit late. Rich here and beyond the background admin stuff you'll see the fruits of in due course, I've spent the day adapting our automated benchmarks for handhelds on a separate Steam Library on an NVMe SSD wi...
2025-10-28 17:09:02 +0000 UTC View PostA gigantic new episode of DF Direct Weekly sees the team's reaction to the big Halo Campaign Evolved reveal - and some unfortunate Unreal Engine 5 issues already coming into view. Meanwhile, what does Microsoft actually mean by its "very premium, very high-end" next-gen comments and is the Xbox A...
2025-10-25 22:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A gigantic new episode of DF Direct Weekly sees the team's reaction to the big Halo Campaign Evolved reveal - and some unfortunate Unreal Engine 5 issues already coming into view. Meanwhile, what does Microsoft actually mean by its "very premium, very high-end" next-gen comments and is the Xbox A...
2025-10-25 22:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Ninja Gaiden 4 sees Team Ninja co-develop with Platinum Games for a highly entertaining, super-smooth action game. Barring a visually deficient Xbox Series S port, this is an attractive, technically sound project that works on all systems - but is most recommended on PC and PS5 Pro.
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2025-10-25 14:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A new power saver mode is added to select first party PS5 titles, with Demon's Souls, Day's Gone Remastered - and more - gaining compatibility this week. This eco-friendly mode is part of Sony's drive to reduce green house emissions first and foremost, and involves each developer custom-tuning ea...
2025-10-24 12:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The Outer Worlds 2 on PC isn't quite as solid technically as the Xbox versions of the game, proving to be particularly heavy on console-equivalent CPUs in particular. Alex looks at the usual stuff: menu quality, shader compilation/stutter issues, GPU performance and - of course - optimised settin...
2025-10-23 17:46:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The Outer Worlds 2 fully leans into the Unreal Engine 5 feature set, even if the stylised art style isn't typical of the engine. The results are impressive on Xbox with three different but very solid visual modes. However, the experience on PlayStation 5 consoles definitely needs improvement in a...
2025-10-23 17:05:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there - you know the score by now, surely? Every Thursday this post appears in your Patreon feed, outlining what we're going to be doing in the next episode of DF Direct Weekly, along with an appeal for your topic suggestions, comments and questions!
Topics on the docket? Well... Sar...
2025-10-23 11:25:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone and welcome to the latest update from Digital Foundry - first up, we didn't publish DF Direct Weekly #236 today as the benchmark comparisons for the Xbox Ally X were incorrect. Thanks to the Supporters who pointed out that the OG Ally benchmarks didn't quite stack up. Although the 3DM...
2025-10-20 17:48:16 +0000 UTC View PostROG Xbox Ally X is "in the house" and Rich describes his first couple of days in the review process. Alex answers the big question as to whether new PC games stutter more than older ones, while Oliver gets to grips with Black Myth Wukong's latest patch on PlayStation, complete with Lumen-free per...
2025-10-18 20:23:44 +0000 UTC View Post
UPDATE #2: Final video downloads attached!
UPDATE #1: Thanks for the reports on lower than expected (R)OG Ally results - we have rebenched with a fully fresh install and the corrected Direct will go public tomorrow, along with new downloads here.
ROG ...
2025-10-18 20:21:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Lauded for its phenomenal performance, the truth is that Battlefield 6's ultra and overkill settings are exactly that - opening the door to some phenomenal performance boosts with barely noticeable visual differences via optimised settings. Alex takes you through his thoughts on the game, how to ...
2025-10-17 18:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post
A brand new patch 1.30 lands on all current-gen consoles, with PS5 Pro in particular reaping the spoils with a new PSSR toggle, and also increased 60fps performance while using its ray tracing 'graphics' mode. The advantages speak for themselves, as Tom covers here, but there are a few limitation...
2025-10-16 18:42:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello there, and welcome to the latest Call For Questions post as we "prep" for the next edition of DF Direct. And here's what we're going to be doing. First of all, I've had to take some time recently to look after my elderly parents, so I'm running well behind on my ROG Xbox Ally X review (Micr...
2025-10-16 14:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post
We've already looked at the PlayStation 5 version of Battlefield 6 to give our overview of what this game is, how well it works and whether we recommend it. Now we go into the weeds with a detailed breakdown of every mode in every console version of the game.
Update: This video has been updated - the strobe warning is more pronounced, an error in voiceover has been corrected and individual frame-time charts have been added to the Alan Wake 2 test.
Original Post: Hi everyone, as mentioned earlier - some All-Suppo...
2025-10-13 18:45:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Content sponsored by Nvidia. 2005: a pivotal year in gaming, with the arrival of a new generation of titles, enabled on PC with the arrival of Shader Model 3, supported by Nvidia's cutting-edge GeForce 7800 GTX. 20 years on, Alex powers up a period-appropriate PC equipped with the 7800 GTX, showc...
2025-10-13 13:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, just completed sundry tasks and can now report on the contents of the #content meeting from this morning! All team members in attendance and plenty to discuss, so let's get straight into the thick of it.
Rich (ie me) has finally completed the FSR 4 INT8...
2025-10-13 10:51:05 +0000 UTC View PostIn this week's DF Direct, Microsoft deny rumours that its next-gen console has been cancelled - but to what extent are its statements credible in the wake of the infamous "four games" messaging? The existence of ports of Red Dead Redemption 2 for PS5, Xbox and Switch 2 are confirmed by the most r...
2025-10-11 22:27:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Note: Due to scheduling conflicts, there's a strong possibility that the public version of DF Direct Weekly #235 will quote-unquote drop on Sunday, not Monday. We'll be arranging another early access opportunity for all Supporters to compensate.
The blurb: in this week's DF...
2025-10-11 22:25:50 +0000 UTC View PostCould this be the foundational GPU technology for the PlayStation 6? Mark Cerny's latest Project Amethyst update describes the building blocks of future graphics technology, with a strong focus on ray tracing and machine learning capabilities, along with bandwidth-enhancing features designed to r...
2025-10-11 15:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, this was originally going to be the main news topic for the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly. On reflection, as it contains new information from Mark Cerny, the Direct would have almost certainly leaked, so we spun out this segment as a standalone video running now. We'll be gettin...
2025-10-11 14:53:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Battlefield 6 is here - and this is our initial video on what is an excellent release. Focusing on the PlayStation 5 version for now, Oliver goes into the plus and minus points of the campaign before moving onto a multiplayer focus, including 120Hz VRR performance. And what's with all the content...
2025-10-09 16:37:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Yessssssss Supporters - it's Thursday, and I've just caught my breath after putting Oliver's excellent Battlefield 5 video live, so let's get straight down to it. We'll be "taping" DF Direct Weekly #235 tomorrow and while topics for discussion are still brewing, we'll be talking about Microsoft's...
2025-10-09 16:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and welcome to the latest weekly update from Digital Foundry, posted hot on the heels of our weekly #content update. Plenty to be discussing, so let's get straight to it, eh?
Tom is taking a look at the freshly launched patch for Control Ultimate Edition on co...
2025-10-06 13:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's going live later today - all Supporters can watch now.
The new Apple iPhone 17 Pro promises - and delivers - big performance enhancements, the upshot of this being a highly significant improvement in triple-A games that prior iPhones have struggled to handle. Oliver Mackenzie get...
2025-10-05 08:42:04 +0000 UTC View PostThe latest DF Direct is dominated by discussion of Microsoft's gigantic price hikes for Game Pass - proof positive that the previous prices were unsustainable, or a greedy cash grab from Xbox? And who exactly wants the new content added to the top-end tier? Meanwhile, the team share their thought...
2025-10-04 15:03:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The latest DF Direct is dominated by discussion of Microsoft's gigantic price hikes for Game Pass - proof positive that the previous prices were unsustainable, or a greedy cash grab from Xbox? And who exactly wants the new content added to the top-end tier? Meanwhile, the team share their thought...
2025-10-04 15:00:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, apologies for the lateness of the Call For Question post, but here we go. It's going to be a big one, I guess, as Microsoft's reorganisation of its Game(s) Pass offering is our lead discussion point in the next show. I'm sure you have lots of opinions about that, of course, but let's...
2025-10-02 18:00:37 +0000 UTC View Post