Timeline
Sunday30th Mar 2025
Feature Assassin's Creed Shadows PC: the best settings for smooth performance and ray traced visuals
Even mainstream GPUs can handle the game's cutting-edge effects
Saturday29th Mar 2025
Feature Confirmed: PlayStation 5 and PS5 Pro have VRR stuttering problems
Sony and third-party games affected, Xbox works fine
Friday28th Mar 2025
A bittersweet moment and an extraordinary game
Wednesday26th Mar 2025
Saturday22nd Mar 2025
Feature Assassin's Creed Shadows: inside the technologically revamped Anvil Engine
The developers explain key decisions behind Shadows' technical makeup
Friday21st Mar 2025
Feature Too big for Steam Deck? Many triple-A games are unplayable on Valve's handheld
But what about the Asus ROG Ally?
Wednesday19th Mar 2025
Feature Assassin's Creed Shadows delivers one of the most substantial PS5 Pro upgrades we've seen
Ray-traced lighting at 60fps? Yes please
Tuesday18th Mar 2025
Feature Assassin's Creed Shadows' new Anvil engine features impress on PS5 and Series X
An evolutionary step for the series, but Series S cutbacks bear mention
Monday17th Mar 2025
DF Weekly if the Xbox handheld is years away, what's the point of Project Kennan?
A crucial first step in bringing Windows and Xbox together
Saturday15th Mar 2025
Friday14th Mar 2025
Feature Intel Arc B570 review: a budget GPU that's too good to be true?
Excellent hardware, but performance issues in combination with less powerful CPUs
Monday10th Mar 2025
Feature Mark Cerny: FSR 4 for PS5 Pro is the "next evolution of PSSR"
The RDNA 4 upscaler is the first result of AMD/Sony's Project Amethyst collaboration
Saturday8th Mar 2025
Feature Metal Gear Solid Master Collection Vol. 1 revisited: improved but key problems remain
The PC version with mods remains the best way to play
Thursday6th Mar 2025
Feature Split Fiction is simply brilliant: PS5, PS5 Pro, PC and Xbox Series X/S tested
Inventive co-op gameplay with slick visuals and great performance on all platforms
Wednesday5th Mar 2025
Feature AMD Radeon RX 9070 / 9070 XT review: back to winning ways
Improved RT, upgraded upscaling, better pricing
Tuesday4th Mar 2025
Feature Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 review: DLSS 4 doesn't deliver 4090 performance
More like a cheaper 4070 Super with multi frame generation support
Friday28th Feb 2025
Feature Monster Hunter Wilds - we can't recommend the PC version
Substantial technical problems must be addressed
Tuesday25th Feb 2025
Feature Monster Hunter Wilds plays better on PS5 Pro - but we hoped for more
It is, however, the best console version available
Monday24th Feb 2025
Feature Monster Hunter Wilds feels undercooked on PS5, Series X and especially Series S
Despite a tech evolution from past entries, visual quality and performance should be better
Thursday20th Feb 2025
Feature Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is an old-school technical success on PC
Smooth, polished and performant on day one - the way things should be
Wednesday19th Feb 2025
Feature Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti review: 4080 territory, or more with an overclock
A decent value - if MSRP cards are properly available
Tuesday18th Feb 2025
Feature Astro Bot gets a PS5 Pro update bringing PSSR, new levels and some subtle tweaks
Image quality does improve - but to what extent?
Monday17th Feb 2025
DF Direct Crysis 4's uncertain future is a grim portent for the industry
One of the few remaining in-house engine developers takes a heavy blow
Thursday13th Feb 2025
Feature Avowed is Obsidian's technical triumph - despite the typical heft of UE5
Xbox Series X, Series S and PC compared
Monday10th Feb 2025
DF Direct our weekly show celebrates 200 episodes
Plus: do we need a DF input latency rating system?
Saturday8th Feb 2025
Thursday6th Feb 2025
Feature Helldivers 2 has received a 'stealth' PS5 Pro upgrade - and here's what it does
A big boost to resolution - and performance improvements too
Wednesday5th Feb 2025
Feature RTX Mega Geometry in Alan Wake 2 - improved, faster, more efficient ray tracing
And RTX 20-series and 30-series GPUs benefit most
Tuesday4th Feb 2025
Saturday1st Feb 2025
Feature Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is shaping up well on PlayStation and Xbox consoles
Impressive 30fps and 60fps options with the best of both worlds on PS5 Pro
Friday31st Jan 2025
Feature Sniper Elite: Resistance - unambitious tech but well executed and lots of fun
PlayStation 5, PS5 Pro and Xbox Series consoles tested
Thursday30th Jan 2025
Wednesday29th Jan 2025
Feature Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review: performance worthy of the name?
It's slower than RTX 4090/5090 - but offers a lot more value
Monday27th Jan 2025
DF Weekly Doom: The Dark Ages pushes current-gen tech hard - and it looks phenomenal
New details on the latest idTech - direct from the developer
Saturday25th Jan 2025
Feature Nvidia DLSS 4 tested: ray reconstruction upgrades deliver radical enhancements
The new transformer model shows night and day improvements
Thursday23rd Jan 2025
Feature Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review: the new fastest gaming GPU
The Founders Edition delivers exceptional performance in an impossibly small form factor
Tuesday21st Jan 2025
Feature The Nvidia AI interview: Inside DLSS 4 and machine learning with Bryan Catanzaro
DF talks with Nvidia's VP of applied deep learning research
Saturday18th Jan 2025
Feature Star Wars Jedi: Survivor gets a PSSR upgrade on PS5 Pro - and image quality is much improved
The most glaring issues addressed, but there's still work to be done
Friday17th Jan 2025
Feature Switch 2's reveal: what have we learned about its next-gen potential?
Nintendo's teaser gave very little away
Wednesday15th Jan 2025
Feature Donkey Kong Country Returns HD: a solid Switch port with some unexpected failings
A tasteful remaster with technical chops - yet the Wii original is better in some respects
Monday13th Jan 2025
DF Weekly can the new RTX 5070 really match RTX 4090 performance?
Nvidia says yes, but the reality is more nuanced - and AI is doing the heavy-lifting
Sunday12th Jan 2025
Feature The new Grand Theft Auto 3 Dreamcast port is an astonishing achievement
But how does it stack up against the original PS2 version?
Tuesday7th Jan 2025
Feature Hands-on with DLSS 4 on Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 5080
First impressions of the new upscaling, ray reconstruction and frame generation upgrades
Monday6th Jan 2025
DF Weekly What does the Switch 2 motherboard leak say about system performance?
Should we be concerned about the Samsung-produced processor?
Monday30th Dec 2024
Sunday29th Dec 2024
Black Myth: Wukong, Astro Bot, Silent Hill 2 and many others also recognised
Thursday26th Dec 2024
Monday23rd Dec 2024
DF Weekly Remedy fix Alan Wake 2 on PS5 Pro with PSSR toggle and new 40fps mode
Plus: PS6 supporter questions from the final 2024 DF Direct
Sunday22nd Dec 2024
