Coming This Week on Digital Foundry (Week 15, 2023) (Patreon)

Hey everyone, welcome back to Digital Foundry after the extended holiday weekend. This update is a little later than usual - even factoring in the public holiday - as various projects were tying up yesterday morning and the #content meeting wasn't held until the end of the day! The uninterrupted streak of videos we've been putting out continues today as a pretty big embargo lifts, but here's how things are shaping up for the rest of the week and beyond.

* Alex is getting to work on the extended deep dive into Cyberpunk 2077's RT Overdrive mode, principally to answer the question: how did we go from path-traced renditions of decades-old titles to a PT rendition of one of the most technologically advanced games of the modern era?

* John is working on another smaller DF Retro episode that'll roll out first to Retro tier supporters. It's based on a little-known PS2 title called Ikusagami - or Demon Chaos in PAL territories. Why concentrate on this one? Well... its engine can render 65,000 enemies on-screen simultaneously - at 60fps. And that's the image you're seeing above. John's taking a well-earned break after this and will complete work on the major Road Rash DF Retro episode on his return. 

* Oliver is wrapping up production on the enhancements added to Resident Evil 4 across platforms in its recent patch. Capcom has responded to some of our critiques! And added some more content in the form of Mercenaries mode. That'll be coming soon, after which he'll be tackling Ghostwire: Tokyo on Xbox Series consoles. 

* Tom is looking at Advance Wars 1+2 Reboot Camp on Nintendo Switch, and after that will move onto another project. Minecraft Legends, perhaps?

* Rich continues to rebuild our GPU benchmark database in preparation for the arrival of new graphics hardware - and you should start to see the fruits of that labour sooner rather than later.

* Will is working on a bunch of written articles for Eurogamer, kicking off with a look at just how powerful those ubiquitous RTX 3060 gaming laptops actually are - you know, the ones that are literally always on sale. He's also looking at Corsair's Xeneon Flex foldable OLED!

Is there anything you else you feel we should be looking at? Any games you'd like to see or topics we should be covering? Please comment and share your thoughts and we'll give it our attention! 

In the meantime, we hope you have a fantastic (rest of the) week!