Author: Richard Leadbetter
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DF Weekly: The goalposts have shifted again in assessing console image quality
Every week, I like to choose one specific topic to discuss from the latest edition of DF Direct Weekly – and there’s certainly an embarrassment of riches to choose from in another vast episode. We sat down to film our 141th show the morning after The Game Awards, and despite the usual downplaying of…
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Does Grand Theft Auto 6 deliver the generational leap we were hoping for?
The first Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer has arrived – a little ahead of schedule – and despite its minuscule run-time, it’s an important piece of media. Not only is this our first look at what’s likely to be the biggest game of the generation, it’s also our first indication of how Rockstar has…
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DF Weekly: Arkham Knight on Switch is disastrously poor
This week’s DF Direct Weekly kicks off with our ‘hot take’ on the state of Batman: Arkham Trilogy on Nintendo Switch. We film the show on Friday morning and so only had an hour or so with the game before we sat down to record, but we had to know the answer to one…
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DF Weekly: Do we actually need The Last of Us Part 2 and Horizon Zero Dawn remasters?
DF Direct Weekly typically focuses on the week’s gaming and technology news, but the latest episode actually kicks off with a story we missed from seven days prior: the announcement of The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered. Rumours have circled this project for months now and we’ve often wondered why Sony and Naughty…
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PlayStation Portal review: impressive hardware but is Remote Play itself good enough?
PlayStation Portal is an interesting gadget, an official, Sony-designed streaming device designed for Remote Play with PS5. It’s not a console or a gaming handheld in the traditional sense, which makes reviewing it a little challenging as the quality of the experience is entirely dependent on the quality of your home network. Take on…
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DF Weekly: PlayStation Portal’s quality is reliant on your home network set-up
This week’s Digital Foundry Direct Weekly kicks off with first impressions on Sony’s PlayStation Portal, which we received around the same time that the embargo lifted. Since then, the device has already sold out and in my experience, it’s already commanding anything up to a £150 price premium. Well, it’s a bit of a stretch…
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Steam Deck OLED doesn’t just look better than LCD, it plays better too
With its remarkable OLED HDR display, dramatically improved battery life and numerous quality of life fixes, the new Steam Deck OLED is an exceptional PC handheld – but there was something else I noticed during testing that I wanted to check out. The system felt snappier and more responsive – and it is. Backers…
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Steam Deck OLED review: a beautiful display upgrade – and so much more
Let’s be clear, the brand new Steam Deck OLED isn’t just the original machine with a brand new display. Excluding the outer shell, it’s essentially a top to bottom revamp of the entire machine and perhaps the most extensive mid-generation ‘console refresh’ I’ve seen. But let’s give that beautiful new display its due: it’s…
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DF Weekly: Testing Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on the worst PS5 SSD money can buy
There’s an embarrassment of riches in the 136th edition of DF Direct Weekly, spread across almost two hours of ‘content’. We discuss the good and the bad points of the Modern Warfare 3 campaign and EA’s WRC, we spend time talking about how impressive the Switch port of Super Mario RPG is and share…
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Inside Nvidia’s new hardware for Switch 2: what is the T239 processor?
Way back in June 2021, noted technology leaker kopite7kimi posted a detailed picture of Nvidia’s T234 processor, revealing for the first time that Nintendo would be receiving a customised variant, dubbed T239. In the two years that followed, a wealth of overwhelming evidence has essentially confirmed that they were right. The T239 is an advanced…