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DF Direct Weekly hits a quarter century with a full 25 shows under our belt and with this one, we have what may well be the largest show we've ever done - and that's all down to the sheer weight of tech news this week, kicking off with discussion of Intel XeSS and the reveal of the new Alchemist GPU. I went to Intel's Architecture Day last week - my first 'in person' business meeting since the Xbox Series X reveal in March 2020 - and what strikes me is that Intel has piled everything into this GPU. Features-wise, we've got full DX12 Ultimate compliance (naturally) but more than that is the sizeable silicon investment in hardware-accelerated ray tracing and machine learning features. In this sense, Alchemist is very much going toe-to-toe with Nvidia in architectural terms compared to AMD, where the silicon budget has primarily been spent on rasterisation performance and memory bandwidth optimisations.

Mojang's enjoyable Minecraft Dungeons now has a Steam page, and a planned release date of September 2021. Hey, that's next month!

Konami has signed a deal with the Major League Soccer Players Association to grant rights to use all their players in upcoming football game eFootball.

UPDATE 12.30pm: Stock of the new PlayStation 5 model is filtering through to the UK, Eurogamer has been told.

I played through the original Psychonauts properly for the first time this year. I've been trying to work out how it would feel to play it at release in 2005, at a horrible time in my life, long before I'd given any structured thought to things like trauma and depression. Would it have offered me any useful insight? I'm undecided. Psychonauts is a clever and caring game but it's hardly a coherent or clinical investigation of mental health, and nor does it claim to be. It's a witty and humanising reworking of clichés of madness and repression, a psychedelic 3D platformer in which you dive into brains and roam mental landscapes that range from Manchurian Candidate suburbia to Oedipal circuses of pulsing meat. With its twisty asylums and literal emotional baggage, it's far more surreal gothic comedy than educational fable. Still, I think 2005 me might have taken solace from its teachers: Sasha Nein and Milla Vodello and yes, even Coach Oleander, who place their all-too-fragile inner worlds at your disposal so that you can hone your skills as a budding psychic agent.

Not America, but Petria. Not now, but 1996, a world of cassette tapes to collect, and a place where a story of politics and the masses, and multiple moving parts, can unfold without the awkward intervention of social media. Highways and motels and fast-food joints and cable TV stars.

Remedy Entertainment, the brains behind games such as Control and Alan Wake, has signed a two-game deal with an unannounced publisher [UPDATE 3pm: which has now been announced as Epic Games!]

Final paychecks are now being sent to Kingdoms of Amalur staff members, nine years after developer 38 Studios was shut down.

Devil May Cry is 20 years old today.

I Expect You To Die 2: The Spy and the Liar launches this week on Steam, Oculus and Playstation VR and for this week's episode of VR Corner, I'll be giving you a sneak peek at the chaos that lies within this fiendish puzzler's first three missions.

Hades is currently the best-rated game for PS5 and Xbox Series X on Metacritic.

Content creators on Twitch are planning a one-day strike to force the streaming service to better support marginalised streamers who are doxed or attacked whilst working.

WWE 2K22 has been pushed back to March 2022.

Oscar Isaac - who's set to play Solid Snake in the upcoming Metal Gear Solid movie - says he took the role because he "loved the game".

American McGee has unveiled the full story of Alice: Asylum, the third instalment of Mysterious Studios' fantastically grim take on Alice in Wonderland.

A performance patch for Resident Evil Village on Steam is rolling out next week.

The Titanic Mod for Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven aims to put the RMS Titanic in Mafia - the team is working towards making "one of the most detailed and accurate free 3D recreations of the Titanic ever made", with players able to explore the ship in freeroam mode.

A surprise update recently arrived for Shadow of the Tomb Raider, giving the best of both worlds for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X consoles: a high resolution that looks great on 4K displays, in addition to a 60fps target. And if the consistency of the frame-rate isn't good enough for you, the legacy 1080p performance mode remains. In our opinion, the revised quality mode is the one to play, and the differences in how PS5 and Xbox Series X deliver it is intriguing.

Warner Bros. will show Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga for the first time in a year at gamescom next week.

A modder has completely rebalanced Cyberpunk 2077 in a bid to improve the gameplay experience.

Players of The Ascent have reported a number of problems with its most recently-released patch.

Warhammer 40,000: Battlesector will get new factions, a veterancy system and more new features in a future update, its developer has said.

Significant spoilers follow for Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy 7, Baldur's Gate 2, and Dragon Age: Inquisition.

Halo Infinite won't have campaign co-op or Forge at launch, developer 343 has announced.

It's been a little over two years since publisher THQ Nordic announced a new Saints Row title was "deep in development" at series studio Volition, and finally it seems the silence around the game is about to be broken, if a tantalising new tease is anything to go by.

Fans of cult classic adventure series Syberia can soon reunite with protagonist Kate Walker on a brand-new adventure - this one "across continents and through time periods" - when a fourth instalment, The World Before, comes to PC on 10th December.

Wild, the promising PlayStation-exclusive open-world survival adventure from Wild Sheep Studio, is reportedly no longer in development.

Microsoft Flight Simulator's next big geographical makeover - this time for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland - has been delayed from its original 24th August release date and is now expected to arrive a little later on 7th September.

We're used to football clubs announcing new signings with a nod to video games - but this latest effort may be the best yet.

Black Myth: Wukong just got a new 12-minute gameplay video and the game continues to look great.