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Early Access to DF Direct Weekly #198 Now Available (Patreon)

Published:
2025-01-25 16:24:04
Imported:
2026-06

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As we close in on the 200th edition of DF Direct Weekly - where we currently have no special plans whatsoever - Alex, Oliver and Rich discuss Microsoft's brilliant Xbox Developer_underscore_Direct, and get highly excited about Doom: The Dark Ages, before moving on to discuss the reaction to the RTX 5090 reviews, the problems of GPU reviewing, Sony's baffling live services strategy - and the mysterious delay of AMD's RDNA 4 cards.

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DF Direct Weekly #198: Doom The Dark Ages Reaction, Xbox Developer_Direct, RTX 5090 Reaction!

As we close in on the 200th edition of DF Direct Weekly - where we have no special plans whatsoever - Alex, Oliver and Rich discuss Microsoft's brilliant Xbox Developer_underscore_Direct, and get highly excited about Doom: The Dark Ages, before moving on to discuss the reaction to the RTX 5090 reviews, Sony's baffling live services strategy - and the mysterious delay of AMD's RDNA 4 cards. Join the DF Supporter Program for pristine video downloads, behind the scenes content, early access to new videos, early access to DF Direct Weekly and much, much more: https://bit.ly/3jEGjvx Subscribe for more Digital Foundry: http://bit.ly/DFSubscribe Find DF Direct Weekly as a podcast on your favourite podcast streaming service. 0:00:00 Introduction 0:00:56 News 1: Developer Direct 2025 - Doom: The Dark Ages 0:17:36 Ninja Gaiden 4 0:22:54 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 0:27:55 South of Midnight 0:32:38 News 2: RTX 5090 review reaction 1:14:39 News 3: Radeon 9070 cards arriving in March 1:27:53 News 4: Sony cancels Bluepoint and Bend Studios live service games 1:36:27 Supporter Q1: Could the Switch 2 pack unanticipated custom hardware? 1:42:18 Supporter Q2: Will GTA 6 cost $100 US? 1:48:11 Supporter Q3: Should the PS5 Pro be supported with new games for longer than the PS5?

Comments

Matt Larrabee

An idea for ep 200, maybe just an hour or two of viewer questions about your careers and opinions in random tech history. Would take minimal prep work for you guys and might be easy chill and fun.

DyeHardX86

Heard Alex say "I wish the decimated animation in South Of Midnight was an option" well you have your wish granted Alex! Compulsion confirmed that in the Gamertag Radio and maybe IGN interviews last year the stop-motion is indeed a toggle in settings

DyeHardX86

Personally I have a hard time understanding Sonys green lighting and pitch process this gen they actually said they didn't expect Helldivers 2 to be a hit and Arrowhead was a single player hack and slash dev until they made the first Helldivers which granted was a bit out of bounds for them but Helldivers 2 wasn't even developed as a live service game until midway through they decided to switch gears to a more multiplayer focus which in reality could have been disastrous in itself which leads to their other observations coming into question namely that Sony believed Concord would be on the level of importance of a Star Wars and putting a Remake specialist like Bluepoint on a Single player to GAAS conversion to God of War? Just madness and that isn't the whole of it there is also their incredible over investment in the Horizon franchise which I love but Movies shows and MMOs? Why not just continue to innovate with Horizon 3?

Ryan Luker

The siren call of capitalism almost forces public companies to find "new" revenue streams as it is preferred over existing to some degree. Sony just hasn't had a great time with their latest bets sadly (tent pole single player games have been strong though, based on previous years game of the year discussions).

Perfect_Organism

Amazing thumbnail. Makes it look like Rich and Alex are utterly horrified at something Oliver said.

BespokeEP

The PS6 3D V cache train is coming for you Rich…

BespokeEP

Ya, they also reiterated that on twitter a few days as well. The only issue is, the toggle is only for gameplay, the cutscenes (so the story) is always “puke motion” lol. I don’t know how anyone can enjoy stop motion,

DyeHardX86

Yeah I love Clay-Mation and Stop motion movies like I watched as a kid but playing a game you have the expectation of the next frames being a consistent speed it's definitely different will have to see what it's like

Daniel

from leaked concept art it appears bluepoint is indeed also working on an original ip like Rich suggested, so i don't think this was their only project since 2020

BespokeEP

There was never any evidence that that concept art was anything other than just that, “concept art.” Artists at studios are constantly just drawing different concept art for things. And blue point never said they were working on a new ip, they said original game, which was the online GoW game. People just interpreted that as meaning new ip.

Daniel

The evidence is the very fact that it's been posted by a Bluepoint artist on their page. They are highly likely to highlight work actually used. And after many years of seeing things like this in the games industry It's far more accurate to say artists at studios are constantly drawing for projects they ARE working on and not non-pursued projects. They spend far less time doing that obviously. I never said they said it was a new IP, in your little offended manchild tizzy you seem to have pulled that out of thin air like many other incorrect and definitely unconfirmed things you asserted.

BespokeEP

3D V Cache you later alligator. Mo 3D V cache, mo problems. Haha

BespokeEP

The former Art director of SSM, now Naughty Dog, Raf Grassetti, posts stuff all the time. He’s done Marvel characters, TMNT, DC characters. He is an artist, and his portfolio is everything. Concept art for an unannounced game you are working on is never posted, until the game releases or has been at least announced. I’ll tell you right now, BluePoint does not have a secret second project, or that would have come out with the statement that Sony made. Like “bluepoint is now shifting its focus to an original IP they have been working on”

Daniel

Nah it definitely is posted, it's happened many times and people have discovered real projects through that. Sony would never admit to a secret unannounced project in their statement about these cancellations. They're extremely tight lipped around unannounced info about announced games let alone any projects that haven't been announced (unless they were canceled like these last 2).