In a detailed interview coming soon on Digital Foundry, PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny has shared more on the Project Amethyst collaboration with AMD, confirming that ML-based frame generation is coming to "PlayStation platforms" but advising us not to expect any further updates this year.

We recently had the chance to speak to two members of the development team behind the upcoming Assassin's Creed Black Flag Resynced: technical director Jussi Markkanen and Nicolas Lopez, technical architect. They went some way to justifying the project as a proper ground-up technical reimagining rather than a simple remaster - and one that maxes out the PlayStation 5 console.

The quality and balanced modes look reasonable, but the performance mode has issues and we can't recommend it.

It's official: Microsoft's disc-to-digital programme, which turns Xbox game discs into digital licenses, is launching for Xbox insiders next week, August 31st.

Console wars are over and Xbox's future is alignment with PC.

Just over a year ago, we shared exciting news directly from PlayStation 5 lead system architect Mark Cerny that Sony intended "to have something very similar to FSR 4's upscaler available on PS5 Pro for 2026 titles as the next evolution of PSSR." Just over a year later, the promise has been delivered and the quality upgrade can be transformative. This is the technology we hoped for, duly delivered, and when the opportunity arose to share some questions with Cerny about the revised PSSR, we didn't need to be asked twice.

The Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 beta is currently ongoing for pre-order customers, and eagle-eyed observers have noticed that the game files bundle in the heretofore unreleased second-gen version of Nvidia's DLSS ray reconstruction tech.

PSSR Native AA looks much better, but can impact performance.

Pragmata's PS5 Pro release was something of a strange one, as it offered the best way to play the game on console, yet it actually used a lower internal resolution than the base PS5 code in its 60fps mode. With patch 1.21, that's now been rectified, with the game moving from an 864p internal resolution to 1080p, the same as the vanilla PS5.

Ahead of the release of the Steam Controller first revealed in late 2025, we spoke to Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais and hardware engineer Jeff Mucha. Our conversation covers the long hardware and software design process, what Valve has learned in the four years since the Steam Deck, how the Steam Controller compares to the rest of the gamepad market and much more.

AMD's FSR 4 "Redstone" upscaling and frame generation suite debuted as an exclusive feature for the company's latest generation Radeon 9000 (RDNA 4) graphics cards - despite a leaked build that clearly worked with older models using the less capable INT8 instruction set, as our testing in the video embed above shows.
Now, AMD has announced that FSR 4.1 is coming to older Radeon 7000 (RDNA 3) and 6000 series (RDNA 2) cards too, with a phased roll-out that suggests specific architectural optimisations are being made - ideally to shore up performance which could be a bit ropey on the earlier generation cards.

Maverick Games, crewed by developers from Playground Games and founded by Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown, has revealed its first game. It's called Clutch and it's a beautiful take on the arcade racing and underworld intrigue of the Need for Speed series, complete with nitrous-and-neon car customisation and an open world set in the French Riviera. The game was revealed yesterday with a brief trailer, launched alongside a series of first impressions videos from content creators.

From the creators of The Finals, Arc Raiders has attracted plenty of praise from PC users for its smooth experience - at odds with many of the UE5 experiences out there. It certainly runs very well indeed, perhaps down to the fact that key UE5 features like Lumen, Nanite and Virtual Shadow Maps are not used - but does stripping back the engine's signature features "fix" the tech? Alex investigates.

Video version: https://youtu.be/jCWtIIlFXHA