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In attempting to bring Batman: Arkham Knight from PS4 and Xbox One to Nintendo Switch, the technical limitations of the hardware are laid bare - but fundamentally, the port just …

Notorious in so many ways, it's high time DF Retro revisited Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 - a 3D series entry that disappoints in so many different ways, while also highlighting …

Rockstar's wild west classic comes to Nintendo Switch in what's a surprisingly robust release all round. We get a native 1080p rendition of the game at 30 frames per second …

A highly contentious release, Rockstar's new release for Red Dead Redemption didn't suggest we'd get anything new at all except resolution increases over the seventh-gen console originals. The truth is …

With the rumours of a Red Dead Redemption remaster coming our way, Alex tries his hand at delivering his own 'remastered' experience in the here and now, using Xbox 360 …

In this bonus material, we've got Red Dead Redemption's Game of the Year edition running in the respective emulators, at the original native resolutions (RPCS3: 1152x640, Xenia: 1280x720) and original …

First released in 2009 on PlayStation 3, Final Fantasy 13 was lauded for its visuals, both real-time and via Blu-ray powered pre-rendered CGI. With the arrival of Final Fantasy 16 …

When cross-gen wasn't a thing, last-gen ports of current-gen games could prove disastrous... and nothing in our testing was worse than the PS3 conversion of Shadow of Mordor. Captures originally …

The recent release of GoldenEye 007 for Xbox consoles and Nintendo Switch was certainly an event, but it's not the first time that GoldenEye returned to consoles. Way back in …

Far Cry 3 is a brilliant game - so brilliant, in fact, that it's still fun to play even in the face of some of the worst levels of performance …

Captures created on November 27th, 2012. We dug these files out of the archives for supplementary material for our Far Cry 3 Retro PC Time Capsule and have verified that …

A game for the ages, the DF team return to Half-Life 2 to appraise the original PC version running on classic PC hardware and the 'impossible port' that is the …

In the latest PC Time Capsule episode, we return to 2011 and the arrival of Battlefield 3, powered by the incredible Frostbite engine. DICE pushed technology to the next level …

Not so much 'Classic FPS Remastered' for this one, as we're using fresh captures - as opposed to library footage from the DF archives! For a PC Time Capsule video, …

In another close collaboration with My Life in Gaming, DF Retro presents Final Fantasy 13 - the full story. John Linneman and Marc Duddleson revisit the origins of this fascinating …

We like to talk about game preservation but what about media asset preservation too? The original Metal Gear Solid 4 TGS trailer does not exist in its original 720p60 form. …

When we asked Marc 'Try4ce' Duddleson from My Life In Gaming to take a look at Final Fantasy 14 on PlayStation 5 for us, we were looking forward to an …

Footage from yesteryear extracted from the archives, processed and re-analysed with today's performance tools... with 3x3 nearest neighbour upscaling to preserve native 720p pixel structure for 2160p displays. This analysis …

For our Patreon premium tier supporters, a chance to revisit early Digital Foundry analysis, remastered from lossless captures taken at the time we first covered the game. In the case …

Call this one a labour of love - John takes a look at the exceptional Shadow of the Colossus remake for PlayStation 4 and PS4 Pro, stacks it up against …

Is Persona 5 on PlayStation 4 really an HD remaster? John presents the evidence.