Author: Richard Leadbetter

[ad_1] Welcome the latest instalment of DF Direct Weekly – the 90th, in fact – where myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia discuss the latest gaming and technology news. It’s a week dominated by The Game Awards and the various reveals put before our eyes, where maybe – just maybe – we began to see…

[ad_1] The story so far with the next generation of PC graphics cards is fairly straightforward: it kicked off with the launch of the RTX 4090, which delivered flagship performance across the board, backed by a vision from Nvidia of a whole new era for PC gaming with ray tracing at the forefront. The story…

[ad_1] It’s been around 18 months now since we relaunched our Patreon as the Digital Foundry Supporter Program – and I wanted to take the opportunity to tell you what we’ve achieved in that time and where we aim to go next with the aid of your backing. For us at DF, it’s been…

[ad_1] After a short delay owing to the arrival of some embargoed Witcher 3 content, DF Direct Weekly returns with its 89th instalment – featuring a chastened and bowed Alex Battaglia exhibiting extreme disappointment with his lot. The truth is, putting together our review coverage for The Callisto Protocol proved rather challenging. While the PlayStation…

[ad_1] The regulatory battles between Sony and Microsoft over the latter’s Activision Blizzard acquisition are throwing up all manner of headline stories – such as Xbox effectively positioning themselves as third out of three in terms of the major console platform holders, Sony writing off its chances of ever creating an FPS as potent as…

[ad_1] There’s more than a little previewing going on in the latest DF Direct Weekly, as myself, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia share our thoughts and expectations from The Witcher 3’s upcoming ‘next gen’ patch, while initial impressions of the Pokémon Scarlet and Violet release paint a less than positive picture of the new release.…

[ad_1] I’ve been covering PC graphics hardware in earnest for around eight years now and I’m not sure I’ve seen a u-turn quite as profound as the RTX 4080 12GB ‘unlaunching’ situation. Logistically, the implications are profound: those cards have been manufactured, the packaging is likely waiting. The GPUs themselves may even have RTX…

[ad_1] “The RTX 4080 12GB is a fantastic graphics card, but it’s not named right. Having two GPUs with the 4080 designation is confusing. So, we’re pressing the ‘unlaunch’ button on the 4080 12GB. The RTX 4080 16GB is amazing and on track to delight gamers everywhere on November 16th,” says Nvidia, in a remarkable…

[ad_1] The next generation of graphics performance is finally in our hands – and it’s one of the biggest generational leaps we’ve ever seen. Back in the day, comparing RTX 3080 to RTX 2080 showed up some impressive gains – but the performance multipliers are at a new level when considering how the new RTX…