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Coming This Week to Digital Foundry (Week 43 2025)

Added 2025-10-20 17:48:16 +0000 UTC

Hi everyone and welcome to the latest update from Digital Foundry - first up, we didn't publish DF Direct Weekly #236 today as the benchmark comparisons for the Xbox Ally X were incorrect. Thanks to the Supporters who pointed out that the OG Ally benchmarks didn't quite stack up. Although the 3DMark score matched the official database, game performance was lower. I've nuked the install, reset from scratch and the numbers now look closer to the 20-30% gains seen elsewhere. We will reshoot that segment for a public release tomorrow. Frustrating but thanks for comments and reports that prevented bad data making its way to the broader audience.

Let's talk #content then.

Tom is handling Pokémon Legends Z-A for us, but before that he's working with Rich (ie me) to get to the bottom of PS5's Power Saver mode. We've used it in Demon's Souls on PS5 Slim and PS5 Pro and there's intriguing stuff here - could this be a template for the upcoming handheld?
Oliver is working on our console review for The Outer Worlds 2, due later this week. Beyond that? As a prospective ROG Xbox Ally X owner, he's VERY interested in seeing how well Bazzite runs on it. Persona 3 Reload on Switch? Oliver wants to check it out.
John is away right now but is working on our coverage for Ninja Gaiden 4. After that, he'll be moving on to Xbox 360 launch anniversary retro coverage!
Alex is obviously intrigued by that RTX Remix path tracing mod, but first things first, he'll be providing a PC performance review for The Outer Worlds 2.
Rich (ie me) is still on the big handhelds review, focusing on Ally X, but obviously we'll try to cover the non-X and of course, GPD Win 5 remains in its box waiting to be tested.

Meanwhile, work continues rapidly behind the scenes on the new retro podcast and our fantastic looking website is now in beta - we'll be announcing a new hire soon. All of this is happening 100 percent because we are now fully independent and because of your support. Many, many thanks.

As usual, do let us know of any projects or content you'd like us to look into and feel free to comment on the above. Thanks - as ever - for your support.