Author: Richard Leadbetter

When a game arrives for review on the same day it’s released to the general public, this does tend to raise a red flag. I mean, if the quality of the game is good, why not tell people ahead of time? And yet that’s the situation that faced us on the release of Ghost of…

You could call this week’s DF Direct an assemblage of patch tests as they arrived thick and fast for a range of titles, in varying degrees of scale. The addition of a 40fps ‘favour quality’ mode in Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora strikes an excellent balance between resolution and visual features for Xbox Series X and…

It’s time to take another look at a range of Windows-based handhelds and this time, we’re testing the most advanced, most powerful hardware on the market right now – the actual big boys of the handheld range – stacking them up against the established frontrunners: Steam Deck (in both LCD and OLED incarnations) and…

Another Monday, another episode of DF Direct Weekly. Myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia battle our way through the topics of the week, including initial reactions to the Hellblade 2 previews from last week – but what I want to talk about here is how Alex spent his time last week. Within this week’s…

Ascendant Studios’ Immortals of Aveum is currently enjoying a new lease of life as a ‘free’ game on PlayStation Plus – and two major upgrades are coming soon. The first – patch 1.0.6.3 – adds support for high dynamic range and should be rolling out to all console versions of the game today. Perhaps…

Do you find yourself at something of a loose end over the extended holiday weekend? Why not sit back and enjoy our first DF Retro marathon video, which combines multiple episodes of one of our most ambitious DF Retro projects yet into one mega-extended presentation. And it’s good stuff, with John Linneman and Audi Sorlie…

Speaking as a journalist, it feels somewhat odd to see things you say become news stories, but it sometimes happens owing to Digital Foundry’s profile. So it was last week, when the big takeaway – for many – from our PS5 Pro specs reaction was our contention that Grand Theft Auto 6 on the new…

Last week, more detailed leaks emerged concerning the technical specification of the PlayStation 5 Pro. The machine is real, it is coming relatively soon – and by and large, the leaks are accurate. The question is, what are the design objectives of the new console? What is less than ideal about the current PS5 and…

The Digital Foundry Supporter Program has grown once again with the arrival of a brand-new show exclusive to backers. It’s a companion to DF Direct – hilariously entitled DF InDirect – and its initial format should be recognisable to viewers/listeners of our weekly show as it’s an extension to our existing Supporter Q+A section. The…