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Hi everyone, it's Rich at the keyboard with the latest update from Digital Foundry. A little late (again) on this one as it was all hands on deck to get the Forspoken content out of the door along with the various levels of associated admin. 

A video is uploaded to three different platforms (YouTube, digitalfoundry.net (twice) and Eurogamer's on-site player), then there's the tweetvid for Twitter and the not inconsiderable effort of making the videos work as articles on Eurogamer.

Any way, here's what's going on this week:

* Rich (ie me) is attempting to complete the GeForce Now 4080 review. This is proving somewhat challenging as access to the servers is now no longer guaranteed. I seem to have a five percent chance of getting one, which is problematic when I require a ton of b-roll and other material (latency tests and performance tests are done). Let's see what we can do eh?

* John will be tackling the main feature review for Dead Space Remake. And yes, we're all excited about that!

* Oliver is finishing off his look at every single Xbox Series S game to feature hardware-accelerated ray tracing and will then be moving onto the multi-platform breakdown for the Dead Space Remake.

* Alex will be tackling Forspoken on PC, though access to that is launch day only, unfortunately, meaning work starts tomorrow! PS5-quality settings across the three presets isn't exactly working out as an optimal experience, so we'll be looking at the game in a slightly different way than usual. 

* Tom looks likely to tackle the DualSense Edge review, but we'll see! He's got a couple of days off for now.

As usual, if you have any content suggestions or if you think we've missed any games you feel we should be covering, do let me know! For retro tier supporters, you should expect to see the new DF Retro Play this week, with John this time teaming up with Marc from My Life in Gaming to check out that one.

Have a great week!

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Dan Matte

Any chance you guys might still cover The DioField Chronicle? Really nice title. Also Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II was mentioned at one point. Any chance that could still happen? Thanks as always, DF team!

Anonymous

I'm going to bring up SD card performance on the Steam Deck again, but it seems like it's been deprioritized enough that it's no longer on the table?

Gordon Lin

Keep it up guys! Your work is amazing, as always.

Anonymous

The Forspoken review video is soo well done. I’m a little surprised the meta score isn’t at least in the 70s, but I’m still excited to play at midnight when my download unlocks. I felt like John really gave it a lot of consideration and a really fair analysis. The performance is disappointing but I still don’t regret preordering it. I can’t wait for Alex’s PC video, I too am confused by why it runs the way that it does (being a PC/PS5 exclusive).

Anonymous

Very excited for the 4080 Geforce Now and Dead Speace reviews ^^ No Persona reviews planned I guess? Maybe later when it's a little more calm? There seems to be a lot to say about those.

Lil Gohan

Having a ton of trouble downloading the Forspoken HEVC. The download fails in the middle and won't resume. Do others have this issue frequently?

Anonymous

Not necessarily, they’re just super busy and inundated with questions (have no knowledge of their opinion, that’s just a guess). What is it you wanna know about? Loading/install times or if the games have lower frame rates? I’m honestly surprised at how well games run on my deck’s SD cards. But the more cards you have in rotation, the more likely you are to experience weirdness after the games update their shader pre-caches.

Anonymous

Definitely performance of the SD card on the difference on loading times/frame rate (although I find it unlikely that outside of loading times that the SD card performance will affect in-game performance).

Anonymous

I use an oldschool download manager for the DF site. Their CDN is very finnicky.

Anonymous

I'm thrilled to see the results of Dead Space. Hopefully this can fill the void in my steam library left by returning Callisto protocol after not being able to get 60fps on my 5800x3D and 3080

Bryan McIntosh

I have been having failed downloads very frequently ever since the site redesign. I hope that their CDN solves its issues soon!

Anonymous

For rumors, this seems utterly false: https://www.gizchina.com/2023/01/23/sony-will-launch-the-ps5-pro-in-april-2023-with-liquid-cooling/amp/ A PS5 Pro can’t even make sense from a business perspective when they’re not even profitable on the current PS5.

Anonymous

This was from my attempts this past weekend. Unfortunately the game is just not made for anything below a 4090