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For the four players. Updated on 23 April 2021 Evercade has announced the Evercade VS, a home console with support for up to four USB controllers, and which holds two game cartridges at a time. This version of the Evercade system is designed to plug into your telly and promote old-school local multiplayer. Heres a look at this in action - with a lovely tease of some multiplayer Worms Armageddon: As youd expect, the Evercade VS supports all the officially-...

Digital Foundry favourites - the LG BX and Sony XH9005 - are reduced to £900. Updated on 21 April 2021 Two of the very best TVs for PS5 or Xbox Series X are reduced to £900 this week thanks to a pair of voucher codes on eBay. The TVs in question are the 55” LG BX OLED and Sony Bravia XH9005 - some of the top picks in Digital Foundrys list of the best 4K TVs for gaming. Lets start with the 55” LG BX OLED. Similar to the CX featured in Digital Foundrys fa...

Thanks to the new consoles still being less than a year old, many of the best Xbox Series X games (and Series S games) are cross-generation ones. But the new ones are beginning to trickle through, and thanks to that full backwards compatibility - and the huge range of next-gen-optimised games that Xbox has assembled - theres plenty of choice. If you want that full backlog taken into consideration, take a look at our best Xbox One games list, which has some lovely picks, from major classics to ...

Digital Foundry Tests Reveal That External SATA SSDs Are Best For PS5 Users You dont need to empty your wallet for an external NVMe SSD to get faster load times. The PlayStation 5s latest update added compatibility for external hard drives and SSDs. When presented with so many options, which can be costly, its important to know which storage method is best for you. Thanks to Digital Foundry, we have a good idea of what storage solution you should use if youve filled up your PS5s measly 667 GB...

Plus more community Q+A. Blog by Richard Leadbetter, Technology Editor, Digital Foundry Updated on 19 April 2021 DF Direct Weekly is back once again - inevitably perhaps, given the name. This is the weekly discussion show where the Digital Foundry team down tools for a couple of hours and talk shop, sharing some of the behind the scenes stories on the content theyve been working on and taking on a o...

Recommended CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X This CPU provides a good overall level of performance that should hold you in good stead for a few years, especially in modern games that can take advantage of CPUs like the 5600X with high core and thread counts. Ryzen 5000 processors like the 5600X benefit from a big boost to single-core performance, making them from 15 to 20 per cent faster in some tasks than their predecessors and helping AMD cement a gaming performance lead over Intel for the first time ...

Sony has apparently designed PS5 to detect unsupported hardware. An NVMe SSD right now will force PS5 to skip its booting process altogether.

PS5 Doesnt Like It When You Put an Extra NVMe SSD Inside Share: Sony has said that it will unlock access to the PlayStation 5’s M.2 slot later this summer, as it allows players to upgrade their console’s system storage with an additional NVMe SSD. But what happens if you try to install one right now? According to Digital Foundry, who tested out the feature, your console won’t even boot with a stray SSD inside it. This obviously makes sense, as the system doesn’t officially support the ...

CD Projekt Red has already delivered the promised major patches for “Cyberpunk 2077,” but many still feel that the RPG has more room to improve. On the bright side, the studio has expressed its commitment to continuously support the game with more bug fixes as it plans to keep it in stores “for years to come.” ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ will continue receiving updates after the release of patch 1.2 Last month, CD Projekt barely released patch 1.2 with a very long list of gameplay improvements...

Potentially for upcoming free DLC.  Updated on 15 April 2021 Cyberpunk 2077s big 1.2 patch rolled out at the end of last month, promising a huge amount of bug fixes and performance improvements (and delivering some significant boosts for PS4 Pro, at least). But it seems the patch may have quietly added some content for upcoming DLC updates, as a dataminer has discovered new files referencing previously-unseen "episode one" street story quests. Discovered b...