Coming This Week on Digital Foundry (Week 28, 2023) (Patreon)

Hi everyone, it's Rich here with your weekly rundown of everything that's happening here at Digital Foundry! Tom's away this week taking a well-earned break but everyone else was present at this week's #content meeting and here's what's going down.

* John has been 'entertaining' Audi at his place for the last few days and they've been having fun playing Yukes' AEW Fight Forever. As wrestling games are close to Audi's heart, you'll be getting a video on that this week! Also: more retro stuff was filmed, with a new Retro Q+A in the pipeline. 

* Alex is back from a week's vacation and will be looking into the latest Unreal Engine 5.2 demo, including the latest Electric Dreams sample project and maybe the Broadleaf Forest tech demo!

* Oliver's video on the Mac porting toolkit has been on early access for a few days now on premium and retro tiers and that'll be going public tomorrow. Next up:  a look at how Final Fantasy 16's real-time 3D visuals stack up against yesteryear's pre-rendered cutscenes, with a particular focus on Final Fantasy 13, which featured a wealth of FMV content.

* Rich (ie me) starts work proper this week on the Ayaneo 2S based on the Ryzen 7 7840U processor. I'm expecting/hoping for great things... but not a lot of battery life. Also: the quest to get the ROG Ally back from Asus continues!

* Will's labours on the Series X CPU on a mini-ITX motherboard are finally complete and the results are eye-opening. Still lots of work to do here, but you'll find that the results put a lot of things into perspective!

On the subject of the Series X CPU, obviously I'm talking about the AMD 4800S desktop kit here and I do have the PS5 equivalent, the 4700S desktop kit. The latter kit has very limited PCIe bandwidth making gaming comparisons useless, but I'm open to any and all suggestions on CPU-only benchmarks that could be run on both to compare the two. 

Beyond that, do let us know what you'd like to see us tackle or if we've missed any games or topics you think we should be covering. Have a great week!