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Subscribe to Digital Foundry on Here's the discussion, with Rich, John and Oliver. Rockstar released Grand Theft Auto 6's launch trailer yesterday, granting a precious 90 seconds of (mostly new) video of the upcoming juggernaut. We've now had a chance to analyse the video, and though it's impossible to say for sure, the footage suggests that a big issue we spotted with the game in earlier trailers has been fixed.

The Asus ROG Xbox Ally X20 is here and it's the handheld many will have been waiting for. A year ago, we lauded the original ROG Xbox Ally X as the best PC mobile hardware on the market and while Intel's Arc G3 Extreme and AMD's Strix Halo may have something to say about that on the performance side, the new X20 delivers the crucial missing component - an excellent OLED display.

PS5 Xbox Series X Xbox Series S News With a banging soundtrack from Justice. Here's the full trailer. Following the Extended Look trailer for Netflix, a new 90-second trailer for Grand Theft Auto 6 has been released on YouTube, featuring PlayStation branding and an M for Mature age rating. Most importantly, there are snippets of several scenes we haven't seen before - and some familiar moments too from prior trailers.

Reviews Features Nintendo Switch 2 Plus: a quick look at RE2 and RE3, also coming to Switch 2 on October 16th. Subscribe to Digital Foundry on Here's Oliver with the full scoop on Resident Evil 4 for Switch 2 - and a brief overview of the RE2 and RE3 remakes for the system. All three games are released on 16th October. Resident Evil 4 represents a high-water mark for the action-horror series, one that was successfully modernised in a 2023 remake for current and last-gen consoles.

Features Reviews PC Hardware Mice Razer Twice as much as the fanciest Logitech G502, but is it twice as good? I normally go in for ultra-light mice, but Razer's Basilisk series offers an interesting alternative in the same vein as the popular Logitech G502. You get a lot more buttons, a fancy scroll wheel, RGB lighting and high-end internals, all wrapped up in a heavy, wide and ultimately quite comfortable ergonomic shape.

Microsoft announced a new $50/£45 controller today, the Xbox Nano Controller. It has a boxier shape and smaller dimensions, which Microsoft says makes it better for smaller-handed players and gaming on the go. Despite being considerably more compact, the controller includes all of the same buttons as the normal Xbox Wireless Controller that debuted with its Series X and Series S consoles back in 2020.

Subscribe to Digital Foundry on Here's Tom with the full look at at The Witcher 3 Remastered on PS5, PS5 Pro, Xbox Series X and Series S. The Witcher 3 Remastered marks a comprehensive revision to the venerable RPG, nearly 11 years after the initial release. While the upgrade comes free for owners of the original game, its launch hasn't exactly proven smooth sailing, with critiques of the revised visuals, frequent crashes and sub-60fps performance.

Valve's Index was the first VR headset I ever owned, so I was a little sad to see that it has officially been "sunsetted" - no new hardware is being produced and the remaining stock of headsets, controllers and tethers is being sold at a discount. The device will remain supported on Steam and SteamVR.

The number of ported, decompiled and recompiled games has shot up exponentially over the past month, with retro titles escaping long-standing platform restrictions to turn up on PCs, phones and consoles alike. The confluence of AI tools and the success of vibe coding projects is quickly approaching a critical mass, and platform holders are going to have to either start locking down their games or embrace the new open vibe-coded spirit of the times.

Subscribe to Digital Foundry on Here's Rich with a quick update on PC performance in The Witcher 3 Remastered. We've revisited the PC performance of The Witcher 3 Remastered following community feedback regarding the game's behaviour in CPU-limited scenarios. Our original analysis, conducted on hotfix 5.00c, observed significant frame-rate drops in the demanding Hierarch Square area of Novigrad when using path tracing.