Coming This Week on Digital Foundry (Week 7, 2022) (Patreon)

Hello there, and it's with much pleasure that we kick off the week with our first look at Horizon Forbidden West - a tech deep dive into the PlayStation 5 version of the game with minor teases on our upcoming PS4/Pro/PS5 head-to-head. Content restrictions from Sony prevent us from releasing too much video content before launch but the main thrust of the comparisons will be available in a Eurogamer article. So - we typically release five videos per week, and that accounts for two of them, while DF Direct fills the third slot. So what else is cooking in this week and beyond.

* Rich (ie me) continues to work behind the scenes on Steam Deck coverage, which arrives towards the end of the month.

* John is taking a look at Nightdive's excellent Powerslave/Exhumed remake. 

* Tom is examining Triangle Strategy for Switch, and is likely to move onto Assassin's Creed: The Ezio Collection, also on the Nintendo machine.

* Oliver is back with coverage of CrossFireX on Xbox consoles.

* Alex is indulging his twin passions for Warhammer and RTS games with a piece on Total War Warhammer 3. 

* Audi is polishing up the second DF After Dark podcast which should 'drop' this week for premium and retro supporters.

* Will has been looking at the Intel Core i7 12700K and Core i5 12400F - expect the full lowdown on Eurogamer. Spoilers: they're very good and we're actively chasing down the i3 everyone's raving about.

Work also begins in earnest this week on the next DF Retro project. I won't spoil the details, but it's going to be a proper undertaking but one that should truly pay off. Meanwhile, in previous updates, I've talked about running the PS3 emulator - RPCS3 - on the PlayStation 5 CPU. This project is currently on hold until Steam Deck coverage is complete, but it turns out that the scale of that effort will need to expand as the CPU requirement to match original hardware is beyond the scope of the 4700S. Should be an interesting project but one that's pushed onto the back burner for now.

Have a great week!