Author: Will Judd
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Counter-Strike 2 is already a blast – and lays the groundwork for years to come
[ad_1] I’m excited. I’ve been playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive for 11 years now, since its release in 2012, and it’s gone from being a LAN party curio to my go-to game I’ve sunk literally thousands of hours in, whether I’m testing hardware or testing my mettle in its online matchmaking. I’m joined online by…
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DF Direct Weekly on the Resident Evil 4 situation and PS5 Pro rumours
[ad_1] Resident Evil 4’s launch date is approaching soon and reviews are live, yet Digital Foundry’s coverage isn’t. The explanation for this curiosity – and our thoughts on how the launch version compares to the Chainsaw Demo – take centre stage this week’s DF Direct Weekly. John and Alex’s RE4 impressions are well worth tuning…
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Resident Evil 4 remake: do technical troubles doom a would-be classic?
[ad_1] The Resident Evil 4 Chainsaw Demo is here ahead of the release of the full remake, and we thought it would be fun to let DF tech specialists Alex Battaglia and John Linneman loose inside the game to see what they made of it. Consider this a mini DF tech review then, a first…
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DF Direct Weekly: The Last of Us Part 1 PC requirements hint at an impressive port
[ad_1] Late last week Naughty Dog revealed the recommended PC specs for The Last of Us Part 1, with a surprising amount of detail provided in their blog post – down to the exact hardware necessary to obtain 4K 60fps at ultra settings. While the blog post is in some ways self-explanatory and straightforward, reading…
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Legend of Doom: a stunning mash-up mod that actually works as a game
[ad_1] The Legend of Zelda and Doom are both legendary, genre-defining titles from decades ago, but with vastly different gameplay, technical makeup and release platforms it’s hard to find too many similarities between them. That is until late 2021, when solo indie developer DeTwelve released a Doom mod set in the original NES version of…
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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D review: the new fastest gaming CPU
[ad_1] The Ryzen 7 5800X3D was a truly special CPU for AMD, a fitting tribute to the long-lived AM4 platform with gaming performance that dwarfed other Ryzen 5000 processors thanks to its 3D V-Cache design. Now its first two successors have arrived to try and capture the same magic, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D and 7900X3D…
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Audeze Euclid review: planar magnetic in-ears tested for gaming and more
[ad_1] Audeze’s Euclid in-ear planar magnetic headphones are extraordinary. And at $1299/£1099, they’d better be. These are intended to be god-tier audiophile-grade in-ears for music and the like, but this is Digital Foundry – so we’ve focused on their gaming performance in our testing regime. Is it ever worth spending so much on in-ears for…
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Halo’s rumoured Unreal Engine 5 switch makes sense – but it’s still a tragedy
[ad_1] There’s a new trend in video game development. Game studios, even large ones, are binning their own bespoke engines and moving to Unreal Engine instead. We’ve seen it with CDPR and The Witcher, we’ve seen it with Crystal Dynamics and Tomb Raider, and now it’s happening to another huge franchise: Halo. 343 Industries, the…
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AMD’s first Ryzen 7000X3D gaming processors arrive on February 28th
[ad_1] AMD’s Ryzen 7000X3D gaming-focused processors finally have a release date – or rather, two release dates. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D and 7950X3D will debut on February 28th, with the 7800X3D arriving on April 6th. AMD announced prices for its new CPUs too, with the eight-core 7800X3D at $449, the 12-core 7900X3D at $599 and…
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600 review: at what cost?
[ad_1] A few days ago, AMD announced a trio of cheaper Ryzen 7000 CPUs at its CES 2023 showcase, featuring more modest 65W TDPs, bundled air coolers and a release date of January 10th. One of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 7600, has made it to DF HQ where we’ve put it through our full…