Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 49, 2024) (Patreon)

Hello there and welcome to the antepenultimate news update from the team at Digital Foundry. My name is Richard Leadbetter and I've just emerged from the #content meeting with everything you need to know about this week and with some formative plans for the rest of the month. So, let's get straight to it!

John will be taking point on our coverage for Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, focusing on the Xbox Series X and Series S versions of the game. It may well be an HDR video! John's essentially spearheading HDR workflow at the moment for us. It's a bit trickier but a lot easier than it was when we last did it in the 2016/2017 period.

Alex will be working on a PC video for Indiana Jones. We are expecting a lot of ray tracing loveliness, but bearing in mind Xbox apparently has RT too, console/optimised settings should be interesting.

Rich (ie me) is finally on the tail-end of the Strix Point review using the Beelink SER-9 mini PC. I'm finding that frame gen is actually rather useful for mobile hardware assuming you can keep performance north of 30fps. Strix Point is a monstrous design with no real improvements on memory bandwidth so the results are... interesting... to say the least.

Tom is working on the Black Ops 6 coverage which will include PS5 Pro but more generally talks about the enhancements made to the IW engine. We're stacked with info here in the wake of his visit to the Infinity Ward tech hub in Poland. The RE Engine games on PS5 Pro also deserve some focus.

Oliver has just handed in a draft for his video on the GTA Trilogy Definitive Edition as tested on current generation consoles. Are they actually now definitive? We shall discover soon. Beyond that, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered and Forbidden West are the last major PS5 Pro upgrades we want to tackle.

Will has battled through perhaps the most extended Black Friday period in modern history and rounds off his deals coverage imminently, before moving back into his role looking after our Eurogamer presence. If and when that Arrow Lake update arrives, he'll be ready.

Let's talk plans for later in the month. It's a tricky one as we can't not do content over the Christmas break as this is one of few months in the year where you actually make good money on YouTube. Graphics of the Year will return, as will the best/worst PC ports of the year. I may well be inclined to do some hardware of the year content too - but really, the only interesting products launched this year in the hardware space have been the 9800X3D and, I guess, the 5700X3D (Jan 2024 there!).

We will have John's Saturn vs PlayStation retro video going live later this month, along with a great DF Retro Play on the Wreckless games on Xbox - and, as the tradition, we hope to see the team discuss their games of the year. Beyond that, do let us know of any Direct-style content we can put together to tide you over!

I'll end this post with the usual call for #content suggestions. Have a great week!