It's time for another round of Digital Foundry Direct Weekly, on this occasion featuring the technical stylings of Sam Machkovech, John Linneman and Alex Battaglia. On the docket this week: layoffs at Halo developer 343 Industries amid a rumoured switch to Unreal Engine 5, a new PS5 beta firmware and is it 'safe' to move to Windows 11 on a gaming rig?

00:00:00 Introduction

00:01:53 News 01: Halo developer suffers layoffs, switching to UE5

00:17:37 News 02: Major live service games canceled

00:27:11 News 03: DLSS 3 added to Cyberpunk 2077, Dying Light 2

00:36:21 News 04: The Witcher 3 gets RT performance boosts

00:43:11 News 05: Goldeneye launches on Xbox, Switch

00:53:56 News 06: PS5 beta firmware adds 1440p VRR support

01:05:04 DF Supporter Q1: Sam, you called the RTX 4090 a bargain. What other bargains do you recommend?

01:09:04 DF Supporter Q2: Have you tested copying the shader cache from one PC to another to eliminate shader stutter?

01:10:08 DF Supporter Q3: Could Square Enix be in financial trouble after Forspoken’s poor reception?

01:13:51 DF Supporter Q4: With PS VR2 pre-orders reportedly lower than expected, could the VR2 go the way of the Vita?

01:18:58 DF Supporter Q5: Do you think that it is safe to move to Windows 11 on a gaming rig?

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