Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 44, 2024) (Patreon)

Hi everyone, trying to get ahead of the rush now with this week's update - due to various levels of activity it's been a touch late the last few weeks, but there are no mad dashes across the country today for capture opportunities. The #content meeting happened as per the norm and this is what happened.

Alex is working on Dragon Age: The Veilguard. While the embargo is 3pm UK time today, we need a bit of extra time so we're looking to publish tomorrow. This will be PC-led, obviously, with some PS5 comparisons and optimised settings. Since I've timed this post to publish in line with the embargo, I can say that the PC version of this game is excellent. After that, Red Dead Redemption on PC. We'll be looking to quickly discuss Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered in DF Direct.

Tom will be working on Call of Duty Black Ops 6, since we've only just received the game. He'll also be taking a swift look at Mario and Luigi: Brothership.

John is tackling Sonic x Shadow Generations, which is a somewhat complicated affair. He'll be taking a look at all current gen platforms, including Switch. After that, embargoed content.

Oliver is handling our console review for Dragon Age: The Veilguard, which will be landing later this week - but definitely by launch day on Thursday. He's also on assignment this week on some #content we're looking to run a few weeks from now.

Rich (ie me) has DF Clips to set up, admin to carry out, but beyond that, I'm working on more wondrous stuff behind the scenes with illusion and when the time is right, I'll be looking at the 9800X3D. I've received some very cool PC gear I'll try to find time to cover and that does include the Intel Lunar Lake laptop. I've also got a Strix Point mini-PC which looks very interesting.

Will continues the CPU benchmarking onslaught in preparation for our 9800X3D review and continues to help out in DF video to Eurogamer article translations.

We're also starting to plan how we wish to handle PS5 Pro - we talked about that at the end of the DF Direct Weekly #186. We'd like to do an unboxing video, a mini-Direct on the FAQs we've seen about the machine (I think we'll put together a call for questions about that soon), we're prioritising which games to test both in terms of patches and Game Boost but I'm certainly very interested in what you might want to see in a hardware review.

Anything else we should be looking at? It's looking very tight right now in terms of resources, but do let us know of anything that's caught your eye we should be looking at.