Coming this week on Digital Foundry (Week 32, 2021) (Patreon)

Update: Wow, we're used to the schedule changing during the week, but during the last few hours, we've made some alterations to this week's plans. John will be following up his Crysis work with a look at the freshly minted Hellblade Xbox Series patch and assuming timing works out, Rich will be collating all the new Steam Deck information!

Hello everyone, it's Rich here with your weekly breakdown of what is happening in the world of Digital Foundry, written in the wake of our Monday morning #content meeting.

* John recently revisited Crytek HQ and interviewed key members of the Crysis team - all going well, you'll get to see that video tomorrow, along with your first look at Crysis 2 Remastered running on PlayStation 5 hardware.

* Alex is back on vacation this week, but as I'm somewhat busy, he'll be taking point on an analysis of DLSS Ultra Performance mode viewed within the context of its possible deployment on the next-generation Switch. 

* Will is going to be producing a text review of the Radeon RX 6600 XT in time for its embargo lift. I'm not sure we'll have time to do a video for this, but plans are afoot to return to this piece of hardware with a different spin. Tech-wise, PlayStation 5's RDNA 2 GPU sits pretty much between this and the 6700 XT, so maybe we'll do some proper game comparisons in addition to the usual benchmarks.

* Tom continues on his special project, but we're still looking to get his Shadow of the Tomb Raider content done.

* Rich (ie me) is set to finish up an Nvidia laptops video before moving onto testing of a couple of HDMI 2.1 monitors - the 55-inch Philips Momentum and a more plausibly sized 27-inch Acer. 

We're essentially a man down this week so it may be a little quieter, so please bear with us! Retro content? A call for questions has already gone out for the next Retro Q+A, while some coverage of the Zool remaster may also be in the offing...