A warm welcome to the brand-new Digital Foundry website! In partnership with the brilliant Hookshot Media, we've brought across decades' worth of DF content from our prior online home at Eurogamer, housing it within a brand-new design based on Hookshot's own custom CMS. Our legacy content looks better than ever, and we've got big plans for the future we're delighted to share with you today.

The new digitalfoundry.net is the kind of site we've wanted to establish for many years. Our goals in this new era are to deliver news, analysis and DF-calibre context on a clean, easy-to-read platform that works on whatever device you prefer to scroll on. Our vision is to focus the new site's content on what we do best: putting the latest games and hardware through their paces, talking to the industry's most prestigious coders and developers, and delivering informed op-eds on the future of gaming technology, all alongside everything else that you have come to expect from us.

Equally important is what we're not going to do. We're not particularly interested in recycling other people's posts, "over-selling" stories with sensationalist headlines or mauling our work in the interests of SEO. We've never done this on our YouTube channel, because it's not a good fit for our editorial values, and to be brutally honest, we feel that this model is doomed to eventual failure as AI begins to dominate web results. Once the dust has settled, the value of smaller, independent and authoritative voices will come to the fore, and we'd hope be to be among them.

It's a gamble we think will pay off, and if you value this approach and enjoy our work, please do consider joining us on the DF Supporter Program via Patreon. Subscribers on all paid-for tiers now include a new perk: an ad-free web experience on both the main site and our new forums, where higher-tier Patreon members get an additional designation. We can't promise this visual flair will make your posts better respected, but we're happy to imply it.

Forums may seem quaint in the Discord/Reddit/social media age, but we believe that in the hands of the Digital Foundry audience, they can grow into a valuable, lasting resource, as well as being a genuinely great place to hang out. Our forums are divided between general gaming and tech, DF-specific feedback, DF Retro conversations about your favourite classics and an off-topic space. Check them out, say hello and please play nice.

We've been banging virtual mallets to mould a custom framework on top of the design and features found at the sites run by our friends at Hookshot Media, and we think the current result looks nice and runs well. That being said, we reckon you might run into a bug or two as we shift from our closed beta period to a public launch. If so, please head to our dedicated forum thread on the matter and let us know what you've found.

There's more to come, but in the meantime, we look forward to your input and feedback on what you'd like to see on the site now and in the future.

If you're still reading this far, I should introduce myself. Hi hi! I'm Sam Machkovech, a longtime gaming and tech journalist based in the US who you might recognize from a few DF Direct appearances over the years. I've joined the team to help launch the website, which means I'll primarily support Alex, John, Oliver, Rich and Tom in getting their bespoke analysis onto the site and elsewhere in the world, along with my own potential reviews, interviews, analysis and podcast appearances when I have the time for them. Being a part of DF has been a years-long dream, and I couldn't be prouder to type such a greeting on digitalfoundry.net of all places. See you around the site.