Author: Will Judd

[ad_1] It’s something of a DF Direct special this week, as regular co-host Alex Battaglia is joined by two insightful guests, longtime games journalist Sam ‘samred’ Machkovech of Ars Technica and streaming expert Addie of the YouTube channel EposVox. The trio tackle the week’s news – including the first substantive details on the hotly anticipated…

[ad_1] It’s the DF Skeleton Crew! With the three most experienced DF Directers out – Rich on holiday, John on holiday and Alex out sick – it’s time for Will, Tom and Oliver to step into the limelight for a Direct. In this episode we cover the new Skate and Bayonetta 3 announcements, going over…

[ad_1] Earlier this week, news broke of a modder that hacked AMD’s FSR 2.0 temporal upscaling technology into Cyberpunk 2077, allowing users of non-RTX graphics cards the chance to play the game at higher frame-rates with substantially better visual quality than with FSR 1.0 upscaling. That’s massive for owners of AMD GPUs, and the mod…

[ad_1] For a long time, the SteelSeries Arctis line of headsets has appeared at the top of our list of gaming headset recommendations. They’re an easy and popular pick: comfortable, great-sounding and available in a wide range of formats to suit all manner of platforms, connection types and budgets. But five years after the…

[ad_1] The $449/£429 Ryzen 7 5800X3D is something a bit different from AMD, a processor that exists to demonstrate the power of the firm’s 3D V-Cache design for its upcoming Ryzen CPUs and fight off Intel’s 12900KS for the title of ‘fastest gaming processor’. It’s also something of a last hurrah for the surprisingly long-lived…

[ad_1] Nearly two years ago, we called the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090 a Titan in all but name, a prosumer graphics card that makes sense as a cheaper alternative to professional Quadros while also delivering better gaming performance than any consumer alternative. Now the RTX 3090 Ti has arrived, placing it above the Titans and…

[ad_1] Last November we took a look at Intel’s first 12th generation desktop processors, and today we’re back to finish the job. In that initial piece, we reviewed the Core i9 12900K and Core i5 12600K and came away impressed. As it turns out, a modern 10nm process, a larger L3 cache and a new…

[ad_1] Elden Ring’s launch has been marked by strong reviews praising its gameplay and art direction, but also questions over its technical performance on each platform – PlayStation, Xbox and PC. Here at Digital Foundry, our analysis is in progress on the recently released 1.02 version of the game, but we wanted to provide some…