Coming this week on Digital Foundry (Week 34, 2021) (Patreon)

Hello, Rich here. Last week was a trial to say the least! We had a beautiful piece of content for the upcoming Crysis 2 and 3 remasters lined up, but it was delayed by a week. Meanwhile, due to staff absences and behind-the-scenes commitments, we had a couple of days where we couldn't post anything at all. Plans to do a Steam Deck update piece kinda fell apart when I realised that there was really nothing to add to Linus' excellent video. And yeah, plenty of challenges outside of DF to contend with.

Still, we have regrouped for the Monday morning #content meeting and we have a more robust offering:

* DF Direct Weekly - which went out on Saturday - has been updated. Rich (ie me) updates you with his tests in running an Xbox Series SSD inside a PlayStation 5, and perhaps ironically we've 'patched' the Abandoned segment to cover the new... patch! Watch out for that later today and thanks to Audi for re-opening that project and sorting it out!

* John did indeed visit Crytek a while back, he did indeed interview staff there about Crysis 2 and 3 and we can now confirm that the content will run tomorrow after the aforementioned delay.

* More Crysis later in the week? Count on it.

* John will be looking at the PS5 upgrades for the new Ghost of Tsushima!

* Tom did not complete Shadow of the Tomb Raider last week, but it'll be happening this week instead - and after that he'll take a look at the new F1 game, assuming we can get code for it sorted out.

* Alex is back! We're assessing  Narake: Bladepoint for coverage but we're also planning to do that DLSS ultra performance analysis based on its possible deployment in Switch 2/Super Switch/Switch Model S.

Over on Eurogamer, Will is going to be looking at the Eve Spectrum HDMI 2.1 monitor and the Ryzen 7 5700G. In Patreon world, we should be able to provide early access on some of the above stuff to premium and retro supporters and having secured a new dock, Classic FPS Remastered shall return - and why not continue the Crysis theme with some 'interesting' stats from the PS360 renditions of Crysis 2 and Crysis 3. Also, expect a brand new Retro Q+A!

If you have any ideas for behind the scenes content, let us know! But for now, have a great week - and don't forget to join us on Discord! We have an awesome community there and we do share a fair bit more behind-the-scenes info - like the whole story behind the bricking of my Series S...