Coming this week on Digital Foundry (Week 17, 2021) + Patreon News! (Patreon)

It's going to be a big, big week! First of all, content-wise, Alex Battaglia's #BigGlobalExclusive will drop this week, likely on Wednesday. Not much we can say about it (sorry!) except to say that it's a game that will be a pioneer in the transition from current-gen to fully next-gen gaming. 

But that's perhaps not the biggest story we have for you! Towards the end of the week, we are finally going to relaunch the Patreon. The existing $4.99 tier remains, but we'll be adding new tiers that offer up a range of behind-the-scenes content and early access, along with some cool bonuses that organically spring up during production. 

On top of this, the New Patreon will also seek to secure the future expansion of DF Retro, which can only grow and thrive via the supporter model. More on this soon, but let's put it this way, it's an expansion we've been planning for a couple of months now and much of it is based on the phenomenal conversations with had with our supporters via Discord. We hope you love it.

As for this week? Beyond what we've already discussed:

* Alex will be taking point on Housemarque's Returnal for PS5. This is a really impressive game we can't wait to tell you more about

* Tom's going to be taking a look at Nier Replicant, where we've received a lot of requests for coverage

* Outriders! Still keen to return to this one.

* Mortal Shell has been updated again! Not sure there's much call for a full video, but we may well discuss it on the next DF Direct Weekly.

* Will has received a Core i5 11400F, which may well be the very best price vs performance CPU on the market, he'll be starting to put that through its paces