DF Direct Weekly #193: The Witcher 4, Intergalactic, Elden Ring Nightreign, Mafia Old Country!

Digital Foundry Direct Weekly

Alert status is elevated to GEOFFCON 1 as we react to the major reveals - and other games that caught our attention - at The Game Awards 2024. What can we learn from The Witcher 4's cinematic trailer and the RTX 5090 that powered it? Is Intergalactic from Naughty Dog really rendering in real-time at 4K 60 with ray tracing? How good does Mafia: The Old Country look and just how wonderful was Split Fiction? Does Elden Ring Nightreign exhibit any evidence of technical progression whatsoever? All this and more in the new Direct, plus Oliver's analysis of the new PS5 Pro updates for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and Star Wars Outlaws.

0:00:00 Introduction

0:01:25 News 1: The Game Awards 2024 - The Witcher 4

0:15:07 Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet

0:30:04 Split Fiction

0:37:33 Elden Ring Nightreign

0:42:57 Mafia: The Old Country

0:47:53 John’s picks: Ninja Gaiden, Virtua Fighter, Project Century, Turok. Onimusha, Okami, new GenDesign game

1:01:20 Oliver’s picks: FF7R PC, TLOU Pt 2 PC, Screamer, Sonic Racing

1:13:50 News 2: Avatar and Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Pro fixes tested!

1:26:31 News 3: LG discontinues Blu-Ray players

1:40:30 Supporter Q1: Will Doom: The Dark Ages have the same RT features as Indiana Jones? And should id Tech be licensed to other developers?

1:47:27 Supporter Q2: Why isn’t there a Cyberpunk 2077 PS5 Pro patch?

1:52:05 Supporter Q3: Should we be concerned about the Arc B580’s die size?

1:59:03 Supporter Q4: What would a hypothetical Arc B770 look like?

2:06:58 Supporter Q5: If Geoff was to give an award for game engine utilization, who would win?

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